Cohorts and community: a case study of community engagement in the establishment of a health and demographic surveillance site in Malaysia

• Main Authors: Pascale Allotey (Author), Daniel D. Reidpath (Author), Nirmala Devarajan (Author), Kanason Rajagobal (Author), Shajahan Yasin (Author), Dharmalingam Arunachalam (Author), Johanna Debora Imelda (Author), Ireneous Soyiri (Author), Tamzyn Davey (Author), Nowrozy Jahan (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Taylor & Francis Group, 2014-05-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Background: Community engagement is an increasingly important requirement of public health research and plays an important role in the informed consent and recruitment process. However, there is very little guidance about how it should be done, the indicators for assessing effectiveness of the commu...