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标题：Community-Based Participatory Research: Implications for Public Health Funding
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作者：Meredith Minkler ; Angela Glover Blackwell ; Mildred Thompson 等
期刊名称：American journal of public health
印刷版ISSN：0090-0036
出版年度：2003
卷号：93
期号：8
页码：1210-1213
语种：English
出版社：American Public Health Association
摘要：Community-based participatory research (CBPR) increasingly is being recognized by health scholars and funders as a potent approach to collaboratively studying and acting to address health disparities. Emphasizing action as a critical part of the research process, CBPR is particularly consistent with the goals of “resultsoriented philanthropy” and of government funders who have become discouraged by the often modest to disappointing results of more traditional research and intervention efforts in many lowincome communities of color. Supporters of CBPR face challenging issues in the areas of partnership capacity and readiness, time requirements, funding flexibility, and evaluation. The authors suggest strategies for addressing such issues and make a case for increasing support of CBPR as an important tool for action-oriented and community-driven public health research. IN ITS RECENT, WIDELY CITED report on educating public health professionals for the 21st century, the Institute of Medicine included community-based participatory research (CBPR) as one of 8 new areas in which schools of public health should be supplementing their traditional curricula. 1 In so doing, this organization joined a growing number of health scholars and government and private philanthropic organizations 2– 5 in arguing that many of today’s complex health problems may profitably be studied and addressed through approaches that emphasize collaboration with communities in exploring and acting on locally identified concerns. As Green and Mercer have noted, CBPR participants give “more than informed consent” 3(1926) : they share their knowledge and experience in helping to identify key problems to be studied, formulate research questions in culturally sensitive ways, and use study results to help support relevant program and policy development or social change. 3 For present purposes, CBPR is defined as “a collaborative process that equitably involves all partners in the research process and recognizes the unique strengths that each brings. CBPR begins with a research topic of importance to the community with the aim of combining knowledge and action for social change to improve community health and eliminate health disparities.” 6 We begin with a brief discussion of the fit between CBPR and the mission of a growing number of foundations and government funders in the health field. We then explore the challenges and opportunities that CBPR may present for health scholars and funders interested in promoting collaborative approaches to scholarship in which action is a critical part of the research process itself.