In 1998, representatives from over 190 countries congregated in Jakarta, Indonesia to draft the Jakarta Declaration on Leading Health Promotion into the 21st Century. The declaration outlined a roadmap for global health promotion, with a focus on equity, human rights, and social justice.
One of the key tenets of the Jakarta Declaration is the importance of working with communities to identify and address health problems. This approach is known as community-based participatory research (CBPR), and it has been shown to …