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I promised to post information about Dr Bill Doherty and his Citizen Health Care. Here's a brief description from him : "Citizen Health Care is a community organizing approach to engaging ordinary people as co-producers of health and health care. It goes beyond the activated patient to the activated community ........ its driving mission is to create a democratic model of health care that unleashes the capacity and energy of ordinary citizens as producers of health for themselves and their communities." They have done community based participatory research projects that have been evaluated and published. Good quote - "One of the greatest untapped resources in our efforts to reduce smoking in young people is the lived experience and wisdom of the very individuals and groups that we seek to influence."

Here's a link - http://www.cehd.umn.edu/cpc

Mary Jacksteit mary.jacksteit@gmail.com Love to hear from anyone interested in this.