P4.067 Photovoice

Photovoice in the Workplace.pdf

Engaging youth through photovoice.

The photovoice process aims to use photographic images taken by persons with little money, power, or status to enhance community needs assessments, empower participants, and induce change by informing policy makers of community assets and deficits. This article describes a youth photovoice project implemented in an after-school program that attempted to adapt the photovoice method to youth part...

Photovoice as a participatory health promotion strategy

Photovoice is a participatory action research strategy by which people create and discuss photographs as a means of catalyzing personal and community change. The use of photovoice as an effective tool for carrying out participatory needs assessment, conducting participatory evaluation and reaching policy-makers has been discussed elsewhere. Here the authors examine the claims made for the effec...

Rural nursing education: a photovoice perspective.

INTRODUCTION For many rural Canadians nursing care is the primary and often the sole access point to health care. As such, rural nurses are an invaluable resource to the health and wellbeing of rural populations. However, due to a nursing workforce that is aging and retiring, limited resources and support, healthcare reform issues, and other factors, these rural professionals are in short suppl...

Photovoice: medical residents reflecting on poverty.

following: non-adherence to antihypertensive therapy; recent history of hospitalisation for HBP, and use of tobacco. Home visits identified potential PD individuals, for whom data characterising their family and social inter-relationships were obtained by interviews. Thus, criteria that characterised positive deviants were identified and all such individuals were invited to participate in the i...