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Health Promotion International, Vol. 14, No. 3, 197-210, September 1999
© Oxford University Press 1999

The Community Quality of Life Project: a health promotion approach to understanding communities

Dennis Raphael, Brenda Steinmetz1, Rebecca Renwick, Irving Rootman, Ivan Brown, Hersh Sehdev2, Sherry Phillips3 and Trevor Smith4

University of Toronto, 1 Health Canada, 2 South Riverdale Community Health Centre, 3 Lawrence Heights Community Health Centre and 4 University of Waterloo, Canada

Address for correspondence: Dennis Raphael Department of Public Health Sciences University of Toronto McMurrich Building Toronto Ontario M5S 1A8 Canada E-mail: d.raphael{at}utoronto.ca

An approach that considers community quality of life is described. The approach draws upon recent developments in health promotion and quality of life, and applies these concepts within a community-based health promotion framework. The approach draws upon developments in the social indicators and urban quality areas, as well as contemporary Healthy Cities and population health work. It operates within the naturalistic or qualitative inquiry paradigm and strives to be community based through use of a participatory and collaborative methodology. Community members, service providers and elected representatives within two Metropolitan Toronto communities were asked to consider community factors that affect community members' quality of life. Their statements and comments were analysed to identify themes. These findings were used to construct case studies of each community. The value of our methodology is considered, and initial findings presented.


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