“Certain groups and populations—including racial and ethnic minorities receive less care and lower quality healthcare on a consistent basis. These disparities are primarily caused by social injustice and societal inequalities. To help eliminate these inequalities, many healthcare organizations are turning to community-based participatory research (CBPR).”

http://www.vnaa.org/vnaa/MemberUpdate/ArticleDisplay.aspx?ArticleID=3904

“Community-based participatory research is a ‘collaborative approach to research that equitably involves all partners in the research process and recognizes the unique strengths that each brings. CBPR begins with a research topic of importance to the community, has the aim of combining knowledge with action and achieving social change to improve health outcomes and eliminate health disparities.’”

WK Kellogg Foundation Community Health Scholars Program

http://depts.washington.edu/ccph/commbas.html

http://www.ahrq.gov/downloads/pub/evidence/pdf/cbpr/cbpr.pdf

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK37280/

http://www.aapcho.org/site/aapcho/content.php?type=1&id=10355

http://www.cdc.gov/prc/research-projects/community-partnership.htm

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Pop Culture Health

• Davison, C., Frankel, S., & Smith, G. D. (1992). The limits of lifestyle: Re-assessing “fatalism” in the popular culture of illness prevention. Social Science & Medicine, 34(6), 675-685. doi:10.1016/0277-9536(92)90195-V
• Kleinman, A. (1981). Patients and healers in the context of culture: an exploration of the borderland between anthropology, medicine, and psychiatry. University of California Press.
• Blaikie, A. (1999). Ageing and popular culture. Cambridge University Press.

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