The National Institutes of Health has fomented the adoption of best practices at the community level generated through translation research to improve population health (4). Community participation is essential to promote the design, implementation of sustainable health promotion programs, the adoption of best clinical practice, and the improvement of population health (5). Community engagement is the process of working collectively with others that shared geographic proximity and the same interest to resolve issues affecting their well-being (5). The goals of community engagement approach are to develop trust, to share resources, to improve communication channels, to improve health status, to develop effective health education programs, and to establish durable partnerships among community members and the academia (5–7). Moreover, previous researchers suggested that community participation contributes to the development of culturally supported interventions that are efficient and sustainable and with equitable distribution of services (8–9).
