Strategies

What Works for Health includes evidence-informed strategies to create communities where everyone can thrive.

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Public deliberations

Bring people with diverse values and perspectives together to engage in facilitated, inclusive, and informed dialogues about a topic of public concern. Examples include Citizens’ Initiative Reviews, deliberative polling, citizen juries, and citizen’s assemblies.
Evidence Rating:
Some Evidence

Community Conditions

  • Civic and community resources

Societal Rules

  • Governance

Social media for civic participation

Support individual and group use of internet-based tools to receive news, communicate or share information, collaborate on ideas, mobilize networks, and make collective decisions
Evidence Rating:
Some Evidence

Community Conditions

  • Civic and community resources

Youth civics education

Teach students attitudes, skills, knowledge, and behavior needed to participate in and contribute to a democracy
Evidence Rating:
Some Evidence

Community Conditions

  • Education
  • Civic and community resources

Societal Rules

  • Worldviews, culture and norms