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Recently Released:
A book, edited by Detroit URC academic partners
Barbara Israel, Edith Parker, Amy Schulz and UNC-Chapel
Hill colleague Eugenia Eng. The book presents
detailed descriptions from projects across the country
of applications of qualitative and quantitative
reseearch methods using community-based participatory
research approaches.
Methods for Conducting
Community-Based Participatory Research for Health
VOLUME EDITORS:
Barbara A. Israel,
DrPH, University of Michigan, School of Public
Health;
Eugenia Eng, DrPH, University of North Carolina,
Chapel Hill, School of Public Health;
Amy J. Schulz, PhD, University of Michigan,
School of Public Health;
Edith A. Parker, DrPH, University of Michigan,
School of Public Health
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METHODS FOR
CONDUCTING COMMUNITY-BASED PARTICIPATORY RESEARCH FOR
HEALTH clearly demonstrates when and how to use
appropriate data collection methods and process methods
within a community-based participatory research
framework. Edited and written by the leading community
and academic scholars and practitioners in the field,
the book’s major topics and chapters include:
- Introduction To
Methods For Conducting Community-Based Participatory
Research.
- Partnership
Formation And Maintenance: Developing and
Maintaining Partnerships With Communities;
Strategies and Techniques for Effective Group
Process in Community-Based Participatory Research
Partnerships.
- Community
Assessment And Diagnosis: Insiders and Outsiders
Assess Who is “The Community”: Participant
Observation, Key Informant Interview, Focus Group
Interview, and Community Forum.
- Definition of The
Issue: Community-Based Participatory Approach to
Survey Design And Implementation: The Healthy
Environments Partnership Survey; Using a
Community-Based Participatory Research Approach To
Develop an Interviewer Training Manual With Members
of the Apsáalooke Nation; The Application of Focus
Group Methodologies to Community-Based Participatory
Research; Application of Community-Based
Participatory Research in the Design of an
Observational Tool: The Neighborhood Observational
Checklist; Mapping Social and Environmental
Influences on Health: A Community Perspective;
Community-Based Participatory Research and
Ethnography: The Perfect Union; What's With the
Wheezing: Methods Used by the Seattle-King County
Healthy Homes Project to Assess Exposure to Indoor
Asthma Triggers.
- Documentation And
Evaluation of Partnerships: Documentation and
Evaluation of Community-Based Participatory Research
Partnerships: The Use of In-Depth Interviews and
Closed-Ended Questionnaires.
- Feedback,
Interpretation, Dissemination And Application of
Results: Developing And Implementing Guidelines for
Dissemination: The Experience of the Community
Action Against Asthma Project; Creating
Understanding and Action Through Group Dialogue;
Photovoice as a Community-Based Participatory
Research Method: A Case Study With African American
Breast Cancer Survivors in Rural Eastern North
Carolina; Policy Analysis and Advocacy: An Approach
to Community-Based Participatory Research; Citizens,
Science, and Data Judo: Leveraging Secondary Data
Analysis to Build a Community-Academic Collaborative
for Environmental Justice in Southern California.
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ISBN:
0-7879-7562-1 Publication: 2005
Price: $ 60.00 Pages: 480
989 Market Street
San Francisco, CA 94103-1741
http://www.josseybass.com/go/publichealth
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