Topic Pages: Community-based participatory research

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• Tools
• Publications
• Journals
• Organizations

Tools

• Community-Based Participatory Research
  Contains a variety of tools, reports, presentations, and links on community-based participatory research.
  Sponsoring organization: Community-Campus Partnerships for Health
• Developing and Sustaining Community-Based Participatory Research Partnerships: A Skill-Building Curriculum
  Assists community-institutional partnerships in using or planning a community-based participatory research (CBPR) approach to improving health. It can be used by partnerships that are just forming as well as mature partnerships.

Publications

• A Community Based Framework for Understanding Problems and Exploring Alternatives: Connecting Underemployment, Poverty and Access to Health Care in the Mississippi Delta
  Discusses community-based research as a framework for better understanding views of poverty and exploring alternative intervention programs that are innovative and diverse. Includes examples of regional assets, barriers, social and health issues identified in the Mississippi Delta region using this research approach.
  Author(s): John J. Green, Albert B. Nylander
  Sponsoring organization: RUPRI Rural Poverty Research Center
  Date: 02 / 2006
  Format: PDF
  
• Community-Based Participatory Research Conference Summary
  Summary of a conference on community-based participatory research.
  Sponsoring organization: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
  Date: 11 / 2001
  Format: HTML
  
• Community-Based Participatory Research: Assessing the Evidence
  An evidence-based report that addresses the following research questions: What defines community-based participatory research; how has CBPR been implemented to date with regard to the quality of research methodology and community involvement; what is the evidence that CBPR efforts have resulted in intended outcomes; and what criteria and processes should be used for review of CBPR in grant proposals?
  Author(s): M. Viswanathan, et al.
  Sponsoring organization: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
  Date: 07 / 2004
  Format: PDF
  
• Community-Based Participatory Research: Implications for Public Health Funding
  Addresses challenges that arise during use of community-based participatory research and makes a case for increasing support of CBPR as an important tool for action-oriented and community- driven public health research.
  Author(s): M. Minkler, A.G. Blackwell, M. Thompson, H. Tamir
  Sponsoring organization: American Public Health Association
  Journal citation: American Journal of Public Health Volume: 93 Issue: 8 Pages: 1210-1213
  Date: 08 / 2003
  Format: PDF
  
• Community-Based Research Framework
  Discusses community-based research as a way to impact public policy more quickly.
  Author(s): John J. Green
  Sponsoring organization: RUPRI Rural Poverty Research Center
  Journal citation: Perspectives: On Poverty, Policy, and Place Volume: 2 Issue: 3 Pages: 14-16
  Date: 2004
  Format: PDF
  
• Directory of Funding Sources for Community-Based Participatory Research
  Compilation of funding opportunities that utilize community-based participatory research.
  Author(s): S.D. Seifer, J. Kauper-Brown, A. Robbins
  Sponsoring organization: Northwest Health Foundation
  Date: 06 / 2004
  Format: PDF
  
• Participatory Evaluation
  A policy brief explaining participatory evaluation, its benefits, and its challenges.
  Author(s): A. Zukoski, M. Luluquisen
  Date: 04 / 2002
  Format: PDF
  
• Participatory Research in Rural Primary Care
  Discusses the role that the participatory research model could play in rural health research. Includes an example of participatory research used to help translate asthma guidelines into primary care in rural Minnesota practices.
  Author(s): Barbara P. Yawn
  Sponsoring organization: Minnesota Medical Association
  Journal citation: Minnesota Medicine Volume: 87 Date: 09 / 2004
  Format: HTML
  
• Speaking Truth, Creating Power: A Guide to Policy Work for Community-Based Participatory Research Practitioners
  Describes using community-based participatory research in community policy and advocacy work.
  Author(s): C. Ritas
  Sponsoring organization: Community-Campus Partnerships for Health
  Date: 06 / 2003
  Format: PDF
  
• Tips & Strategies for Developing Strong Community-Based Participatory Research Proposals
  Contains suggestions for ways to strengthen grant proposals and a list of resources for finding funding opportunities.
  Author(s): Sarena D. Seifer
  Date: 2005
  Format: PDF
  

Journals

• Journal of Rural Health
  Offers research of projects to improve rural health, statistics, and mathematical models. Provides summaries of recently published rural health research. Provides links to author, subject and abstract indexes.
  Sponsoring organization: National Rural Health Association

Organizations

• Community-Based Public Health Caucus
  Promotes the development of community-based public health programs and research.
• Lower Mississippi Delta Nutrition Intervention Research Initiative
  The mission of the Lower Mississippi Delta NIRI is to improve the nutrition and health of families of the Lower Mississippi River Delta region.
• National Center for Rural Health Works
  Develops tools for local residents to measure the economic impact of their health care system and to identify new health care services needed by their community. Provides training workshops and technical assistance to help clients understand and use these tools.
• Southeast Community Research Center
  Conducts research in the southeastern United States using community-based participatory research methodology.