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Out of the Ivory Tower, Into the Real World : Examples of Street-Smart Community Health Research


 

Publication Date: January 2008

Publisher: RAND Corporation

Author(s): Bowen Chung; Charles Edward Corbett; Barbara Boulet; Janet R. Cummings; Keisha Paxton; Sharon McDaniel; Sequoia Olivia Mercier; Charla Franklin; Eric Mercier; Loretta Jones; Barry E. Collins; Paul Koegel; Naihua Duan; Kenneth B. Wells; Deborah C. Glik; Brittany Butler; Drew Jones; Michael A. Rodriguez; Pluscedia Williams; Kavita Patel; Susan Stockdale; Ruthie Gray; Delores A. Hill; Nisaa Madyun; Marleen Wong; Bradley D. Stein; Sheryl H. Kataoka; Lisa H. Jaycox; Arlene Fink; Pia Escudero; Catalina Zaragoza; Audra Langley; Marielena Lara; Hal Morgenstern; Robert H. Brook; David M. Homa; David M. Mannino; Lara J. Akinbami; Glenn Flores; Sara Rosenbaum; Gary Rachelefsky; Will Nicholas; Sally C. Morton; Seth Emont; Marian Branch; Barbara Genovese; Lani Wheeler; Vernon Smith; Thomas Platts-Mills; Noreen Clark; Nicole Lurie; Kevin B. Weiss; Michael D. Cabana; Christy R. Houle; James W. Krieger; Laurie L. Lachance; John R. Meurer; Ivonne Vega; Michael P. Rosenthal; Ben Springgate; Charles Allen; Ruth Klap; Catherine Jones; Shaula Lovera; Diana Meyers; Lawrence Palinkas; Ricky N. Bluthenthal; Marcia A. Ellison; Ted Booker; N. Fackler-Lowrie; Moraya Moini; Kamau R. Williams

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Type: Brief

Abstract:

Discusses the potential of community-based participatory research (CBPR) to reduce the burden of chronic health problems on poor and minority neighborhoods and describes three successful CBPR programs.