Table 1.

CBPR principles and corresponding Urban HEART steps

Community-based participatory research principles [8] (1)	Urban HEART steps [5] (2)
1. CBPR acknowledges community as a unit of identity.	Step 1: Build an inclusive team
2. CBPR builds on strengths and resources within the community.
3. CBPR facilitates a collaborative, equitable partnership in all phases of research, involving an empowering and power-sharing process that attends to social inequalities.	Step 2: Defining local indicators and benchmarks
4. CBPR fosters co-learning and capacity building among all partners.	Step 3: Assembling data and generating evidence
5. CBPR integrates and achieves a balance between knowledge generation and intervention for the mutual benefit of all partners.	Step 4: Generating evidence
6. CBPR focuses on the local relevance of public health problems and on ecological perspectives that attend to the multiple determinants of health.	Step 5: Prioritizing health equity gaps and gradients
7. CBPR involves systems development using a cyclical and iterative process.	Step 6: Developing a response plan
8. CBPR disseminates results to all partners and involves them in the wider dissemination of results.
9. CBPR involves a long-term process and commitment to sustainability.	Future steps