Journal article
Community-Based Participatory Research: Lessons Learned from the Centers for Children’s Environmental Health and Disease Prevention Research
Environmental health perspectives, Vol.113(10), pp.1463-1471
10/2005
DOI: 10.1289/ehp.7675
PMCID: PMC1281296
PMID: 16203263
Abstract
Over the past several decades there has been growing evidence of the increase in incidence rates, morbidity, and mortality for a number of health problems experienced by children. The causation and aggravation of these problems are complex and multifactorial. The burden of these health problems and environmental exposures is borne disproportionately by children from low-income communities and communities of color. Researchers and funding institutions have called for increased attention to the complex issues that affect the health of children living in marginalized communities—and communities more broadly—and have suggested greater community involvement in processes that shape research and intervention approaches, for example, through community-based participatory research (CBPR) partnerships among academic, health services, public health, and community-based organizations. Centers for Children’s Environmental Health and Disease Prevention Research (Children’s Centers) funded by the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences and U.S. Environmental Protection Agency were required to include a CBPR project. The purpose of this article is to provide a definition and set of CBPR principles, to describe the rationale for and major benefits of using this approach, to draw on the experiences of six of the Children’s Centers in using CBPR, and to provide lessons learned and recommendations for how to successfully establish and maintain CBPR partnerships aimed at enhancing our understanding and addressing the multiple determinants of children’s health.
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- Title: Subtitle
- Community-Based Participatory Research: Lessons Learned from the Centers for Children’s Environmental Health and Disease Prevention Research
- Creators
- Barbara A Israel - University of Michigan School of Public Health, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USAEdith A Parker - University of Michigan School of Public Health, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USAZachary Rowe - Friends of Parkside, Detroit, Michigan, USAAlicia Salvatore - University of California at Berkeley, School of Public Health, Berkeley, California, USAMeredith Minkler - University of California at Berkeley, School of Public Health, Berkeley, California, USAJesús López - California Rural Legal Assistance, Salinas, California, USAArlene Butz - Department of General Pediatrics, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, USAAdrian Mosley - Community Advisory Board member, Office of Community Health, Baltimore, Maryland, USALucretia Coates - Principal, Dr. Bernard Harris Sr. Elementary School, President of Community Advisory Board, Baltimore, Maryland, USAGeorge Lambert - Center for Childhood Neurotoxicology and Exposure Assessment, Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey, Piscataway, New Jersey, USAPaul A Potito - Executive Director, New Jersey Center for Outreach and Services for the Autism Community (COSAC), Ewing, New Jersey, USABarbara Brenner - Mount Sinai Center for Children’s Environmental Health and Disease Prevention Research, Department of Community and Preventive Medicine, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, New York, USAMaribel Rivera - Mount Sinai Center for Children’s Environmental Health and Disease Prevention Research, Department of Community and Preventive Medicine, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, New York, USAHarry Romero - Boriken Neighborhood Health Center, New York, New York, USABeti Thompson - Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, USAGloria Coronado - Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, USASandy Halstead - U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Region 10, Prosser, Washington, USA
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- Environmental health perspectives, Vol.113(10), pp.1463-1471
- DOI
- 10.1289/ehp.7675
- PMID
- 16203263
- PMCID
- PMC1281296
- NLM abbreviation
- Environ Health Perspect
- ISSN
- 0091-6765
- eISSN
- 1552-9924
- Publisher
- National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 10/2005
- Academic Unit
- Public Health Administration; Injury Prevention Research Center; Public Policy Center (Archive); Community and Behavioral Health
- Record Identifier
- 9984063123402771
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