This practice insight focuses on lessons learned while completing a research project designed to compare the relative effectiveness of three communication strategies in rural communities relative to motivating citizens to take action on a public health issue, specifically Type 2 diabetes. Our main arguments are: 1) Engaging citizens in any type of communication related to public health or science action requires first assessing a community's readiness for that action; and 2) Community readiness — rather than communication methodology — is the better predictor of citizens' participation in collective or individual actions on public health and science issues.

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跳之前先看：评估社区对科学和卫生政策问题采取行动的准备情况

这种实践洞察力侧重于在完成一项研究项目时吸取的经验教训，该项目旨在比较农村社区三种沟通策略相对于激励公民就公共卫生问题采取行动的相对有效性，特别是 2 型糖尿病。我们的主要论点是： 1) 让公民参与与公共卫生或科学行动相关的任何类型的交流都需要首先评估社区对该行动的准备程度；2) 社区准备——而不是沟通方法——是公民参与公共卫生和科学问题集体或个人行动的更好预测指标。