Community capacity for prevention and health promotion: a scoping review on underlying domains and assessment methods.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Building community capacity is an essential health promotion approach, which refers to the characteristics of communities that affect their ability to identify and address social and public health problems. Despite general agreement about certain capacity domains and frameworks, there is no comprehensive and consistent assessment of community capacity. Therefore, the aim of this scoping review is to identify the domains and methods used to assess community capacity related to community-based prevention and health promotion.

Methods

A scoping search was performed on 06/02/2022 via PubMed, Web of Science, and Science Direct, with supplemental searches via Google Scholar. The review included studies published in English from 1990 to 2022 that explicitly described how

SUBMITTER: Birgel V 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10464111 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature