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Promoting environmental justice through community-based participatory research: the role of community and partnership capacity.
MedLine Citation:
PMID:  16861594     Owner:  NLM     Status:  MEDLINE    
Abstract/OtherAbstract:
Community-based participatory research (CBPR) increasingly is being used to study and address environmental justice. This article presents the results of a cross-site case study of four CBPR partnerships in the United States that researched environmental health problems and worked to educate legislators and promote relevant public policy. The authors focus on community and partnership capacity within and across sites, using as a theoretical framework Goodman and his colleagues' dimensions of community capacity, as these were tailored to environmental health by Freudenberg, and as further modified to include partnership capacity within a systems perspective. The four CBPR partnerships examined were situated in NewYork, California, Oklahoma, and North Carolina and were part of a larger national study. Case study contexts and characteristics, policy-related outcomes, and findings related to community and partnership capacity are presented, with implications drawn for other CBPR partnerships with a policy focus.
Authors:
Meredith Minkler; Victoria Breckwich Vásquez; Mansoureh Tajik; Dana Petersen
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Publication Detail:
Type:  Journal Article; Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't     Date:  2006-07-21
Journal Detail:
Title:  Health education & behavior : the official publication of the Society for Public Health Education     Volume:  35     ISSN:  1090-1981     ISO Abbreviation:  Health Educ Behav     Publication Date:  2008 Feb 
Date Detail:
Created Date:  2008-02-18     Completed Date:  2008-04-10     Revised Date:  -    
Medline Journal Info:
Nlm Unique ID:  9704962     Medline TA:  Health Educ Behav     Country:  United States    
Other Details:
Languages:  eng     Pagination:  119-37     Citation Subset:  IM    
Affiliation:
School of Public Health, University of California, Berkeley 94720-7360, USA. mink@berkeley.edu
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MeSH Terms
Descriptor/Qualifier:
Community Networks / organization & administration*
Consumer Participation*
Environmental Health*
Focus Groups
Humans
Interviews as Topic
Lobbying
Organizational Case Studies
Research / organization & administration
United States

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