Strengthening Community Capacity to Participate in Making Decisions to Reduce Disproportionate Environmental Exposures

Building community capacity to participate in cancer prevention research.

Strengthening capacity to apply health research evidence in policy making: experience from four countries

Increasing the use of evidence in policy making means strengthening capacity on both the supply and demand sides of evidence production. However, little experience of strengthening the capacity of policy makers in low- and middle- income countries has been published to date. We describe the experiences of five projects (in Bangladesh, Gambia, India and Nigeria), where collaborative teams of res...

How to increase community participation capacity in food environment policymaking: Results of a scoping review

Background: Food environment plays a major role in health outcomes. A growing interest in community-based participatory research (CBPR) has led to its application in the improvement of the food environment. This scoping review aims to compile and map the literature and identify key strategies used for increasing community participation capacity in the food environment policymaking process.    ...

An AHP-Delphi Multi-Criteria Decision Making Model with Application to Environmental Decision-Making

Decisions reduce sensitivity to subsequent information.

Behavioural studies over half a century indicate that making categorical choices alters beliefs about the state of the world. People seem biased to confirm previous choices, and to suppress contradicting information. These choice-dependent biases imply a fundamental bound of human rationality. However, it remains unclear whether these effects extend to lower level decisions, and only little is ...