What Is Community? An Evidence-Based Definition for Participatory Public Health
Kathleen M. MacQueen, PhD, MPH,
Eleanor McLellan, MA,
David S. Metzger, PhD,
Susan Kegeles, PhD,
Ronald P. Strauss, PhD,
Roseanne Scotti, MA,
Lynn Blanchard, PhD and
Robert T. Trotter, II, PhD
At the time of the study, Kathleen M. MacQueen and Eleanor McLellan were with the National Center for HIV, STD, and TB Prevention, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Ga. David S. Metzger and Roseanne Scotti are with the Center for Studies of Addiction, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia. Susan Kegeles is with the Center for AIDS Prevention Studies, University of California at San Francisco. Ronald P. Strauss is with the Schools of Dentistry and Medicine, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Lynn Blanchard is with Lehigh Valley Hospital, Allentown, Pa. Robert T. Trotter II is with the Department of Anthropology, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff.
FIGURE 1——Saliency of definitional elements of community by participant group: (A) core elements; (B) group-based elements; (C) stress elements.
Note. San Francisco = gay men in San Francisco, Calif; Philadelphia = injection drug users in Philadelphia, Pa; Durham = African Americans in Durham, NC; HIV vaccine researchers = HIV vaccine researchers across the United States.
