scholarly journals Improving Immunization Rates Through Community-Based Participatory Research: Community Health Improvement for Milwaukee’s Children Program

2016 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 19-30 ◽  
Author(s):  
Earnestine Willis ◽  
Svapna Sabnis ◽  
Chelsea Hamilton ◽  
Fue Xiong ◽  
Keli Coleman ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Community Health ◽  
Participatory Research ◽  
Community Based Participatory Research ◽  
Research Community ◽  
Health Improvement ◽  
Community Based ◽  
Immunization Rates ◽  
Community Health Improvement

Modeling the Principles of Community-Based Participatory Research in a Community Health Assessment Conducted by a Health Foundation

2009 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 67-75 ◽  
Author(s):  
Karen Jaynes Williams ◽  
Patricia Gail Bray ◽  
Carrie K. Shapiro-Mendoza ◽  
Ilana Reisz ◽  
Jane Peranteau
Keyword(s):  
Community Health ◽  
Participatory Research ◽  
Health Assessment ◽  
Community Based Participatory Research ◽  
Local Area ◽  
Lessons Learned ◽  
Assessment Model ◽  
Community Based ◽  
Community Health Assessment ◽  
Practical Applications

The authors discuss strategies used and lessons learned by a health foundation during development of a community health assessment model incorporating community-based participatory research (CBPR) approaches. The assessment model comprises three models incorporating increasing amounts of CPBR principles. Model A combines local-area analysis of quantitative data, qualitative information (key informants, focus groups), and asset mapping. Model B, a community-based participatory model, emphasizes participatory rural appraisal approaches and quantitative assessment using rapid epidemiological assessment. Model C, a modified version of Model B, is financially more sustainable for our needs than Model B. The authors (a) describe origins of these models and illustrate practical applications and (b) explore the lessons learned in their transition from a traditional, nonparticipatory, quantitative approach to participatory approaches to community-health assessment. It is hoped that this article will contribute to the growing body of knowledge of practical aspects of incorporating CBPR approaches into community health assessments.

scholarly journals Using Community-Based Participatory Research to Develop Geospatial Models Toward Improving Community Health for Disadvantaged Hispanic Populations in Charlotte, NC

2018 ◽  
Vol 39 (2) ◽  
pp. 171-190 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thomas M. Ludden ◽  
Yhenneko J. Taylor ◽  
Laura K. Simmons ◽  
Heather A. Smith ◽  
Brisa Urquieta de Hernandez ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Community Health ◽  
Participatory Research ◽  
Community Based Participatory Research ◽  
Community Based ◽  
Hispanic Populations

Promotoras Voice Their Challenges in Fulfilling Their Role as Community Health Workers

2020 ◽  
pp. 152483992092118
Author(s):  
Pamela Orpinas ◽  
Rebecca A. Matthew ◽  
Luis R. Alvarez-Hernandez ◽  
Alejandra Calva ◽  
J. Maria Bermúdez
Keyword(s):  
Community Health ◽  
Community Health Workers ◽  
Participatory Research ◽  
English Language ◽  
Health Workers ◽  
Cultural Beliefs ◽  
Community Based Participatory Research ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Emotional Impact ◽  
Community Based

Promotoras de salud (Spanish for female community health workers) are integral to efforts to enhance the health and well-being of Latinx individuals, families, and communities. The purpose of this study was to describe the challenges that promotoras face and the proposed solutions from the perspective of the promotoras themselves. Five promotoras who worked for a year as volunteers in a community-based participatory research study, Lazos Hispanos, participated in two group interviews. Eight challenges emerged—balancing their new work with their family commitments, handling their perceived imbalance of power with men, managing the emotional impact of hearing participants’ problems, facing and handling the barriers imposed by having limited English language skills, feeling discouraged by the perception of ethnocentric beliefs and discrimination from some providers, feeling disheartened by the cultural beliefs of some Latinx participants, handling the lack of transportation for themselves and for the participants, and managing the burden of data collection for the research aspect of the program. The explanation of these challenges and the practical solutions they proposed are embedded in their intersecting identities. The solutions are a valuable addition to the practice of health promotion and community-based participatory research, particularly within Latinx communities.

scholarly journals Toward an Intergenerational Model for Tobacco-Focused CBPR: Integrating Youth Perspectives via Photovoice

2018 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
pp. 67-77 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ryan J. Petteway ◽  
Payam Sheikhattari ◽  
Fernando Wagner
Keyword(s):  
Community Health ◽  
Participatory Research ◽  
Tobacco Use ◽  
Change Agents ◽  
Community Based Participatory Research ◽  
Community Context ◽  
Community Based ◽  
Youth Research ◽  
Free Environment ◽  
Active Change

The growing prominence of community-based participatory research (CBPR) presents as an opportunity to improve tobacco-related intervention efforts. CBPR collaborations for tobacco/health, however, typically engage only adults, thus affording only a partial understanding of community context as related to tobacco. This is problematic given evidence around age of tobacco use initiation and the influence of local tobacco environments on youth. The CEASE and Resist youth photovoice project was developed as part of the Communities Engaged and Advocating for a Smoke-free Environment (CEASE) CBPR collaboration in Southwest Baltimore. With the broader CEASE initiative focused on adult smoking cessation, CEASE and Resist had three aims: (1) elucidate how youth from a high-tobacco-burden community perceive/interact with their local tobacco environment, (2) train youth as active change agents for tobacco-related community health, and (3) improve intergenerational understandings of tobacco use/impacts within the community. Fourteen youth were recruited from three schools and trained in participatory research and photography ethics/guiding principles. Youth met at regular intervals to discuss and narrate their photos. This article provides an overview of what their work revealed/achieved and discusses how including participatory youth research within traditionally adult-focused work can facilitate intergenerational CBPR for sustainable local action on tobacco and community health.

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