Table 2.

Strengths-based concepts adapted from Wallerstein et al. (5) and WHO (9).

Concept	Statements
Community capacity	The intervention builds on community strengths by involving organizations and leaders to enhance connections and social networks. Community members are actively involved in identifying and solving their issues and preparing to address future problems.
Empowerment	The intervention promotes co-learning and emphasizes the exchange of skills, knowledge, and capacity. Community members are challenging power structures to affect desired outcomes.
Critical consciousness	The intervention involves interactive listening, dialog, and action based on reflection or mentorship Community members are engaged in listening and dialogs that link root causes to tangible actions.
Participation and relevance	The intervention involves the community in all stages of engagement. Community members create their own agenda based on their own needs, power, and resources.
Health equity	The intervention addresses inequitable conditions that create health disparities. Community members are allocated resources that challenge inequitable conditions.
Developing personal skills	The intervention develops personal and social skills through information and education. Community members are exercising more control over their own health and environments.
Creating supportive environments	The intervention aims to change the community’s life, work, and leisure habits to improve health. Community members take action to sustain the viability of their environment to improve health.

Two statements were designed for each concept, and if at least one was true for an intervention, then it was deemed that the intervention leveraged that concept.