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4 Introduction
Pages 25-28

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... staff and planning committee organized the workshop around three interrelated panels: the first comprised representatives of community-based programs who discussed the information they need to move ahead; the second involved staff of research and advocacy organizations that provide a link between communities and policy makers; and the third consisted of decision makers who explained how community perspectives affect policies in their jurisdictions. After each series of presentations, the audience was invited to ask questions and make comments.
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... The development of com prehensive frameworks for community efforts to create healthy environments is under way. The need persists to educate, convince, and inform key players and decision makers in other sectors that health and health policy are their allies in changing the shape of community environments for the better.
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... Despite the power of com- doesn't work in a community. munity experience, researchers and The value of community eyes policy experts have found it difficult, and community voices … is an according to Standish, "to articulate immeasurable asset in the work the ‘hows' and ‘whys' of that experi- that we do." ence and how it should inform and -- Marion Standish influence our work." The Endowment supported this workshop, she said, to detail community experiences and better use those experiences to inform policy and research and build a body of evidence.
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... As highlighted in the workshop, policy makers draw on different levels of evidence depending on the issue under consideration and the myriad of other issues competing for resources and attention. Solomon urged the IOM, as well as workshop participants, to play a role in determining what constitutes evidence to support change.
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