Abstract
Everyone has the right to live a healthy life, yet not all people in the United States obtain or maintain full health and wellness. Unfair health disparities have been the focus of various interventional methods and the present study focuses on the effect of community based interventions on health disparities. A systematic literature review was conducted with ten studies and those for which effect size was calculated, there was an average medium effect (Cohen’s d = .65). Qualitative analyses of the remaining studies suggested positive relationships between community-based interventions and health and well-being outcomes. These findings suggest that social workers can turn to community based interventions as a means to combat health disparities. With a larger sample of studies and similar data units, further meta-analyses could fully map their impact and provide a pathway to develop effective interventions.