Methods for Community-Based Participatory Research for Health (ePub)

This thoroughly revised and updated second edition of Methods
for Community-Based Participatory Research for Health provides
a step-by-step approach to the application of participatory
approaches to quantitative and qualitative data collection and data
analysis. With contributions from a distinguished panel of experts,
this important volume shows how researchers, practitioners, and
community partners can work together to establish and maintain
equitable partnerships using a Community-Based Participatory
Research (CBPR) approach to increase knowledge and improve the
health and well-being of the communities involved.

Written for students, practitioners, researchers, and community
members, the book provides a comprehensive presentation of
innovative partnership structures and processes, and covers the
broad spectrum of methods needed to conduct CBPR in the widest
range of research areas--including social determinants of
health, health inequities, health promotion, community
interventions, disease management, health services, and
environmental health. The contributors examine effective methods
used within the context of a CBPR approach including survey
questionnaire, in-depth interview, focus group interview,
ethnography, exposure assessment, and geographic information system
mapping. In addition, each chapter describes a case study of the
application of the method using a CBPR approach. The book also
contains examples of concrete tools and measurement instruments
that may be adapted by others involved in CBPR efforts.