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Happy faces for everyone after the first presentation on Community-Based Public Health Participatory Research by members of the Community Health Scholars Program (CHSP), facilitated by W.K.Kellogg Program Manager Barbara Sabol. Front row r to l: Vivian Chavez, DrPH, Angela Odoms, PhD, Shannon Frattaroli, PhD, Edith Wolff, JD Back row r to l: Sharla Willis, DrPH, Barbara Sabol, Diane Calleson, PhD.
Resources: Readings

The following is a select list of seminal publications which are basic to community-based participatory research, teaching, and practice:


Articles

* Collaboration For A Change: Definitions, Models, and Roles, With A User-Friendly Guide To Collaborative Processes by Arthur T. Himmelman. From the author’s "Communities Working Collaboratively for a Change", an adapted version published in Resolving Conflict: Strategies for Local Government. Margaret Herrman, Ed. Washington, DC: International City/County Management Association, 1994, pp. 27-47.

* "Introduction", Building Communities from the Inside Out: A Path Toward Finding and Mobilizing a Community’s Assets by Kretzmann, JP and McKnight, JL. Center for Urban Affairs and Policy Research, Evanston, IL, 1993, pp. 1-10.

* Journal of Health Care for the Poor and Underserved. Institute on Health Care for the Poor and Underserved, Meharry Medical College. 2(1): 1991.

* Journal of Public Health Management and Practice, Issue Focus: Community-Based Prevention, Part 1 by ed. Novick, L. F. and Baker, E. A. Journal of Pub. Health Man. and Pract. March, 1998 4(2).

* Demonstration Projects in Community-Based Prevention by Brownson, RC, Riley, P, and Bruce, TA. Journal of Public Health Management Practice, 1998, 4(2): 66-77.

NEW!!"Development and Implementation of Principles for Community-Based Research in Public Health", by Schulz, AJ et al, in Research Strategies for Community Practice, MacNair, RH, Ed.,
The Haworth Press: New York,1998.

* Review of Community-Based Research: Assessing Partnership Approaches to Improve Public Health by Israel, BA, Schulz, AJ, Parker, EA, and Becker, AB. Annu. Rev. Public Health, 1998, 19: 173-202.

* Methodology and the Research-Practice Gap by Robinson, V. M. J. Educ. Researcher, 1998, Jan-Feb, 17-27.

* Introduction to Community Empowerment, Participatory Education, and Health. By Wallerstein N, Bernstein, E. Health Education Quarterly. 21(2): 141-148, 1994 Summer.

* Research Linkages between Academia and Public Health Practice: Can They Become a Practical Reality? By By Baker EL, Tyler CW. American Journ. of Preventive Medicine. 11(3 Suppl): 13, 1995 May-June.

* Journal of Social Issues- Special Edition on Participatory Research Methods. Vol. 53, No. 4, 1997.

*Recommended reading for Community Health Scholars Fellows

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Relevant Non-published Materials

For the Record: Select Speeches by Officers/Staff of the W.K. Kellogg Foundation. Higher Education Issues, Winter, 1998.

Carnegie Corporation of New York - This site contains annual report essays by the President of the Carnegie Corporation of New York. http://www.carnegie.org/recpubs.htm

Health Behavior Research in Minority Populations--Access, Design, and Implementation. National Institutes of Health; call number 922965; 1992.

* Collaboration for Community Empowerment: Re-defining the Role of Academic Institutions by Barnett, K. Operations Director, Center for Community Health, School of Public Health, University of California, Berkeley. February 8, 1993.

*Public Health and Community by Sherman A. James, Professor of Epidemiology, University of Michigan School of Public Health Convocation Address, School of Public Health, University of Michigan, April 30, 1993.

*Recommended reading for Community Health Scholars Fellows

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Books

Action Research: Handbook for Practitioners by Stringer, et al. Sage Publications, Thousand Oaks, 1996.

The Active Life: Wisdom for Work, Creativity, and Caring by Palmer, PJ. Jossey-Bass, 1999.

Applications of Case Study Research (Newbury Park, CA: Sage Publ., 1993; call number: H61.Y561 1993) and Case Study Research-2nd ed. (Thousand Oaks: Sage Publ., 1994; call number: H62.Y561, 1994). Both texts by R. K. Yin

Building Communities from the Inside Out: A Path Toward Finding and Mobilizing a Community’s Assets by McKnight, JP and Kretzman, PJ. Call number: HN49.C6K7311 1993.

Building Community: Social Science in Action by Nyden P. et al. 1997

Community Based Participatory Research in Health by Meredith Minkler and Nina Wallerstein (eds), Jossey-Bass, an imprint of John Wiley & Sons, 2003. Available at http://www.josseybass.com/cda/product/0,,0787964573,00.html

Community Health Development: An Anthology of the Works of Guy Steuart Health Education Quarterly, Suppl 1, 1993. Wiley-Interscience Publication.

Community Organizing and Community Building for Health by M. Minkler. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1997. Call number: RA 427.8.C641 1997.

Community-Based Public Health. Eds. Tom Bruce and Steven Uranga McKane. Published by APHA. Possible Fall 1998 publication.

Doing Community-Based Research: A Reader. Published by The Loka Institute in collaboration with the Community Partnership Center at The University of Tennessee at Knoxville. The Reader has 12 introductory articles on the hows & whys of community research. With forewords written by Lois Gibbs (founder of the Citizens’ Clearinghouse on Hazardous Waste) and Jim Sessions (Executive Director of Highlander Research & Education Center), the Reader is informative and fun to read.

To order a copy of the Reader, send a check made payable to "The Loka Institute" in U.S. dollars to: The Loka Institute, P.O. Box 355, Amherst, MA 01004-0355, USA. Within the U.S. the Reader costs U.S. $10.00 + $3.00 for shipping (for a tota l of U.S. $13.00). To other nations, the shipping cost rises one dollar, bringing the total cost to U.S. $14.00 (please allow 8-10 weeks for delivery).

Handbook of Qualitative Research by Denzin and Lincoln. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publ., 1994. Call number: H62.H24551 1994.

Health Care Ethics--Principles and Problems (2nd ed.) by Garrett TM, Baillie HM, Garrett RM. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall, 1993. Call number: R 724.G351 1993.

Healthy Communities: New Partnerships for the Future of Public Health by Institutes of Medicine, National Academy of Sciences.

"My Brother's Keeper: A Memoir and a Message" by Amitai Etzioni. Rowman & Littlefield, 2003.

Participation in Human Inquiry: Research with People by Reason, P. (Ed.).

Qualitative Evaluation and Research Methods(2nd ed.) by M. Q. Patton. Newbury Park: Sage Publications, 1990. Call number: H62.P3216 1990.

Qualitative Research Methods for Health Professionals. Sage Publications, 1995. Call number: RT 81.5 .F541 1995.

NEW!! Research Strategies for Community Practice by MacNair, RH, Ed.
The Haworth Press: New York, 1998.

Taking Sides--Clashing Views on Controversial Bioethical Issues (6th ed.) by Levine, C. (Ed.). Guilford, CT: Dushkin Publishing Group, Inc., 1995. Call number: R724.T351 1995.

The Lessons and The Legacy of the Pew Health Charitable Trusts by Chilingerian, JA and Kay, CM. Institutes of Medicine, sponsored by the Pew Charitable Trusts. National Academy of Sciences, 1997.

Topics on Community-Based Prevention by Brownson R. And Baker, E.. Journal of Health Care Management and Policy, 1998.

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