COMING TO VOICE - THE POWER OF EMANCIPATORY COMMUNITY INTERVENTIONS

Despite public and community health nursing's long history of social a ctivism and the advocation of community collaborative and partnership ventures to enhance health status, most community interventions contin ue to focus on the individual. Larger social structures and institutio ns that create and support unhealthy behaviors and environments have n ot been seen as sites for nursing interventions. This article examines the challenges associated with community-level interventions. Communi ty organization and participatory research are offered as models of em ancipatory community-level interventions particularly germane to disen franchised communities.