ArticleHealth promotion international2018
Citizen Science for public health.
Article in Health promotion international, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 103 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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103 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
- How Do Participatory Citizenship Models Inform Co-production in Health Research? A Systematic Review.Health expectations : an international journal of public participation in health care and health policy · 2025Pooled it
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- The Community-Environment-Health Nexus: Connecting Community-Led Climate Action to Health Co-Benefits.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2026Article
- Investigation of the Role of Political Participation in Health: A Scoping Review.Health science reports · 2026Review
- What does monkey malaria mean to you? A participatory photovoice study in rural Malaysian Borneo.Malaria journal · 2026Article
- Human biomonitoring in support of the Minamata Convention: a case of phasing out dental amalgam.Environmental health : a global access science source · 2026Article
- [Citizen science for pandemic preparedness: enabling conditions for development of citizen knowledge in times of crisis].TSG : tijdschrift voor gezondheidswetenschappen · 2026Article
- The CIRCULAR model: advancing public health through citizen science initiated clinical and mechanistic research in atrial fibrillation.Frontiers in public health · 2026Review
- "Scientific or democratic?" Bridging the implementation gap of citizen science through the study of social-symbolic objects.Frontiers in public health · 2026Article
- Trusting science and authority in times of crisis: exploring vaccine confidence across Southeast Asia.BMJ public health · 2026Article
- Citizen science for healthier food environments: a realist-informed process evaluation of the big food map app in Flanders, Belgium.Frontiers in public health · 2026Article
- Resident Odor Reports and Differing Health Outcomes in Areas of Industrial Emission Odor, Louisville, Kentucky.Progress in community health partnerships : research, education, and action · 2026Article
- "I'm not a graduate or doctor, yet we are all together:" articulating a partnership model for community-engaged research.Frontiers in public health · 2026Article
- Epistemic agency in self-tracking: a conceptual literature review of quantified self as citizen science for health.Frontiers in public health · 2026Review
- Factors associated with device-based measured physical activity and sedentary behavior in a cross-sectional citizen science study of adolescents during the COVID-19 pandemic.BMC public health · 2025Article
- Climate Justice Strategies Implemented by Public Health Nurses and Their Community Partners.Journal of advanced nursing · 2025Article
- From Subjects to Partners: Rethinking Research Methodologies through Citizen ScienceLa Medicina del lavoro · 2025Article
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- A Scoping Review of Health-Related Citizen Science Projects Involving Indigenous Peoples in Australia and Internationally.Health promotion journal of Australia : official journal of Australian Association of Health Promotion Professionals · 2025Article
- [Participatory approaches in the development of AI applications in medicine: opportunities and challenges].Bundesgesundheitsblatt, Gesundheitsforschung, Gesundheitsschutz · 2025Review
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Abstract
Community engagement in public health policy is easier said than done. One reason is that public health policy is produced in a complex process resulting in policies that may appear not to link up to citizen perspectives. We therefore address the central question as to whether citizen engagement in knowledge production could enable inclusive health policy making. Building on non-health work fields, we describe different types of citizen engagement in scientific research, or 'Citizen Science'. We describe the challenges that Citizen Science poses for public health, and how these could be addressed. Despite these challenges, we expect that Citizen Science or similar approaches such as participatory action research and 'popular epidemiology' may yield better knowledge, empowered communities, and improved community health. We provide a draft framework to enable evaluation of Citizen Science in practice, consisting of a descriptive typology of different kinds of Citizen Science and a causal framework that shows how Citizen Science in public health might benefit both the knowledge produced as well as the 'Citizen Scientists' as active participants.
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