Meredith Minkler and Nina Wallerstein have brought together, in one important volume, a stellar panel of contributors who offer a comprehensive resource on the theory and application of community based participatory research. Community Based Participatory Research for Health contains information on a wide variety of topics including planning and conducting research, working with communities, promoting social change, and core research methods. The book also contains a helpful appendix of tools, guides, checklists, sample protocols, and much more.
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"This book is excellent for generating creative ideas for community development and research. It is well written and it includes in valuable references…" (Doody's Book Review Service, 5/7/2004)
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"Community Based Participatory Research for Health gives practitioners and researchers the methods, tools, and practical applications to preserve social justice as the ethical foundation of public health."
— Marshall Kreuter, adjunct professor, Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University, and former Distinguished Scientist-Fellow, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
— Marshall Kreuter, adjunct professor, Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University, and former Distinguished Scientist-Fellow, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
"This book is an invaluable resource for the growing number of communities, funders, and researchers interested in collaborative research. It shows readers how to put CBPR into practice."
— Roz D. Lasker, M.D., director, Center for the Advancement of Collaborative Strategies in Health, The New York Academy of Medicine
"This volume marks a new milestone in the history of participatory research. The editors have created a resource that will be of interest to scholars and practitioners around the world who are seeking to create more democratic, community-driven approaches to research, public policy, and social action."
— John Gaventa, fellow, Institute of Development Studies, University of Sussex
"This intricately constructed book codifies the CBPR approach for public health scientists and practitioners alike."
— Eugenia Eng, School of Public Health, University of North Carolina
"This book is a very comprehensive resource, for a number of fields, on the theory and practice of community based participatory research. It is a resource for students and practitioners alike."
— Lorraine Gutierrez, Thurnau Professor, School of Social Work and Department of Psychology, University of Michigan
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Many of the complex health and social problems that have accompanied us into the twenty-first century-problems such as HIV/AIDS, homelessness, environmental injustice, and violence-have proved ill suited to traditional "outside expert" approaches to research and the often disappointing community interventions they have helped spawn. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
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Many of the complex health and social problems that have accompanied us into the twenty-first century-problems such as HIV/AIDS, homelessness, environmental injustice, and violence-have proved ill suited to traditional "outside expert" approaches to research and the often disappointing community interventions they have helped spawn. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
based participatory research for health, community based participatory research, sixteen core competencies, pull from communities, photovoice project, health department researchers, community building for health, participatory research partnership, push from funding bodies, community based scholarship, community health indicators, participatory research efforts, community based participatory approaches, hotel room cleaners, widespread behavior change, participatory worldview, village health workers, participative inquiry, appraising experiences, participatory evaluation, public policymaking process, community action board, core competencies for the work, helping community members, urban research center Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, Thousand Oaks, United States, San Francisco, Seattle Partners, North Carolina, African American, Health Education Quarterly, New Brunswick, Rutgers University Press, American Journal of Public Health, Long Beach, Community Tool Box, East Side Village Health Worker Partnership, University of California, Community Health Project, Public Health Reports, Language of Light, Policy Work Group, American Sociologist, New Mexico, Oxford University Press, Paulo Freire, Zed Books, Ann Arbor New!
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- Participatory Action Research (SAGE Focus Editions) by William Foote Whyte on page 31
- Pedagogy of the Oppressed, 30th Anniversary Edition by Paulo Freire on page 30
- Health Services Research: Report of a Study (IOM publication ; 78-06) by Institute of Medicine (U. S.) on page 129
- Healthy People 2000: Midcourse Review by US Dept. HHS on page 8
- Nation's Health by Philip R. Lee on page 352
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- Methods in Community-Based Participatory Research for Health by Barbara A. Israel on 4 pages
- Evaluating the Healthcare System: Effectiveness, Efficiency, and Equity by Charles E. Begley on page 47
- Community Research In Environmental Health: Studies In Science, Advocacy And Ethics by Doug Brugge on page 48
- Gender, Race, Class and Health: Intersectional Approaches (Public Health/Vulnerable Populations) by Amy J. Schulz on page 55
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