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What citizen science could bring to public health
- Access to study population that are difficult to reach
- Greater empowerment of citizens in approaching personal and public health issues (comes from their knowledge and participation in studies that don’t just involve data collection)
- Better population-level health
- Greater health literacy (abilities and skills that allow a person to manage their health more effectively) in citizenry
- Greater sense of coherence (experiencing the world as more meaningful, manageable, and comprehensible), which leads to better health
- Enhancement of community values and social ties/cohesion, which contribute to the health of the community
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Updated 2021-12-03
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Advantages of citizen science
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Difficulties in using citizen science for public health research
What citizen science could bring to public health
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