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Health Education & Behavior, Vol. 25, No. 3,
258-278 (1998)
DOI: 10.1177/109019819802500303
Identifying and Defining the Dimensions of Community Capacity to Provide a Basis for Measurement
Robert M. Goodman, PhD
Tulane University School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, 1501 Canal Street, New Orleans, LA 70112-2824; phone: (504) 584-3539; fax: (504) 584-3540.
Marjorie A. Speers, PhD
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Atlanta, GA.
Kenneth Mcleroy, PhD
Department of Health Promotion Sciences, College of Public Health, University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center.
Stephen Fawcett, PhD
Work Group on Health Promotion and Community Development, University of Kansas.
Michelle Kegler, DrPH
Department of Health Promotion Sciences, College of Public Health, University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center.
Edith Parker, PhD
Department of Health Behavior and Health Education, University of Michigan School of Public Health, Ann Arbor.
Steven Rathgeb Smith, PhD
Graduate School of Public Affairs, University of Washington, Seattle.
Terrie D. Sterling, PhD
Division of Adult and Community Health, National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, CDC, Atlanta, GA.
Nina Wallerstein, DrPH
Department of Family, Community, and Emergency Medicine, School of Medicine, University of New Mexico.
Although community capacity is a central concern of community development experts, the concept requires clarification. Because of the potential importance of community capacity to health promotion, the Division of Chronic Disease Control and Community Intervention, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), convened a symposium in December 1995 with the hope that a consensus might emerge regarding the dimensions that are integral to community capacity. This article describes the dimensions that the symposium participants suggested as central to the construct, including participation and leadership, skills, resources, social and interorganizational networks, sense of community, understanding of community history, community power, community values, and critical reflection. The dimensions are not exhaustive but may serve as a point of departure to extend and refine the construct and to operationalize ways to assess capacity in communities.
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