Shifting and Sharing Power: Public Health’s Charge in Building Community Power
Article published in NACCHO Exchange, the quarterly publication by the National Association of County & City Health Officials, that describes frameworks to explore the concepts of power and community power building as well as ways that health departments can use these concepts as part of a strategy to advance health equity.
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