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Promoting environmental justice through community-based participatory research: the role of community and partnership capacityMeredith Minkler
School of Public Health, University of California, Berkeley 94720 7360, USA
Health Educ Behav 35:119-37. 2008..Case study contexts and characteristics, policy-related outcomes, and findings related to community and partnership capacity are presented, with implications drawn for other CBPR partnerships with a policy focus...
Community-based participatory research and policy advocacy to reduce diesel exposure in West Oakland, CaliforniaPriscilla A Gonzalez
Berkeley Media Studies Group, Berkeley, CA 94720 7360, USA
Am J Public Health 101:S166-75. 2011..Finally, we discussed implications for research, policy, and practice...- Sowing the seeds for sustainable change: a community-based participatory research partnership for health promotion in Indiana, USA and its aftermathMeredith Minkler
Department of Community Health and Human Development, School of Public Health, University of California, Berkeley Berkeley, CA 94720 7360, USA
Health Promot Int 21:293-300. 2006..Success factors, barriers and sustainability benchmarks are discussed. The case study offers an example of the potential of CBPR for helping to lay the groundwork for long-term sustainable change in support of healthier communities... - Sí se puede: using participatory research to promote environmental justice in a Latino community in San Diego, CaliforniaMeredith Minkler
UC Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, USA
J Urban Health 87:796-812. 2010.... - Linking science and policy through community-based participatory research to study and address health disparitiesMeredith Minkler
Health and Social Behavior Program, School of Public Health, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720 7360, USA
Am J Public Health 100:S81-7. 2010.... - Gradient of disability across the socioeconomic spectrum in the United StatesMeredith Minkler
School of Public Health, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720 7360, USA
N Engl J Med 355:695-703. 2006..We attempted to determine whether a gradient in functional limitation exists across the full spectrum of income among persons 55 years of age or older... 
Using community-based participatory research to design and initiate a study on immigrant worker health and safety in San Francisco's Chinatown restaurantsMeredith Minkler
School of Public Health, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720 7360, USA
Am J Ind Med 53:361-71. 2010..Restaurant workers have among the highest rates of work-related illness and injury in the US, but little is known about the working conditions and occupational health status of Chinese immigrant restaurant workers...- Community-based research partnerships: challenges and opportunitiesMeredith Minkler
School of Public Health, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA 9420 7360, USA
J Urban Health 82:ii3-12. 2005..s guidelines for appraising CBPR projects, are highlighted as useful tools for urban health researchers seeking to apply this collaborative approach and to deal effectively with the difficult ethical challenges it can present... - Promoting environmental health policy through community based participatory research: a case study from Harlem, New YorkVictoria Breckwich Vásquez
Center for Public Health Practice, School of Public Health, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720 7360, USA
J Urban Health 83:101-10. 2006..Lessons for other urban community-academic partnerships interested in using CBPR to promote healthy public policy are discussed... - Attitudes of people with disabilities toward physician-assisted suicide legislation: broadening the dialoguePamela Fadem
University of California at Berkeley, School of Public Health, USA
J Health Polit Policy Law 28:977-1001. 2003..In addition, the findings are seen as reinforcing the need for the public health community to become more engaged in this central ethical debate... - Social support and social action organizing in a "grey ghetto": the tenderloin experience. 1982-83Meredith Minkler
School of Public Health, University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA
Int Q Community Health Educ 25:49-61. 2005.... - Community-based participatory research: implications for public health fundingMeredith Minkler
School of Public Health, University of California, Berkeley 94720 7360, USA
Am J Public Health 93:1210-3. 2003..The authors suggest strategies for addressing such issues and make a case for increasing support of CBPR as an important tool for action-oriented and community-driven public health research... - Ethical challenges for the "outside" researcher in community-based participatory researchMeredith Minkler
School of Public Health, University of California, Berkeley 94720 7360, USA
Health Educ Behav 31:684-97. 2004..Green et al.'s guidelines for appraising CBPR projects then are highlighted as an important tool for helping CBPR partners better address the challenging ethical issues often inherent in this approach... - Photovoice: a review of the literature in health and public healthCaricia Catalani
School of Public Health, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720 7360, USA
Health Educ Behav 37:424-51. 2010..Particularly among highly participatory projects, photovoice appears to contribute to an enhanced understanding of community assets and needs and to empowerment... - Ethical dilemmas in participatory action research: a case study from the disability communityMeredith Minkler
School of Public Health, University of California, Berkeley 94720 7360, USA
Health Educ Behav 29:14-29. 2002..The implications of these issues for health educators and others engaged in community-based PAR efforts are presented... - Civic engagement and older adults: a critical perspectiveMarty Martinson
California Senior Leaders Project, School of Public Health, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA 94720 7360, USA
Gerontologist 46:318-24. 2006.... - Community based participatory research: a promising approach for increasing epidemiology's relevance in the 21st centuryMargaret W Leung
Division of Health and Social Behavior, University of California, Berkeley, School of Public Health, 140 Warren Hall, Berkeley, CA 94720 7360, USA
Int J Epidemiol 33:499-506. 2004.... - African American grandparents raising grandchildren: a national study using the Census 2000 American Community SurveyMeredith Minkler
Department of Health and Social Behavior, School of Public Health, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA
J Gerontol B Psychol Sci Soc Sci 60:S82-92. 2005..The objective of this work was to determine the prevalence, sociodemographic characteristics, and service utilization patterns of African American grandparents raising grandchildren compared with noncaregiving peers... - Videovoice: community assessment in post-Katrina New OrleansCaricia E C V Catalani
University of California, School of Public Health, Berkeley, California, USA
Health Promot Pract 13:18-28. 2012..Despite such challenges, this method may provide community-academic partnerships with the opportunity to equitably engage in research, produce independent media, and mobilize for action... - A community-based participatory worksite intervention to reduce pesticide exposures to farmworkers and their familiesAlicia L Salvatore
Berkeley Media Studies Group, Berkeley, CA 94704, USA
Am J Public Health 99:S578-81. 2009..Some behaviors, such as hand washing before eating and many targeted after-work behaviors, did not improve, indicating a need for additional intervention... - Using community-based participatory research to shape policy and prevent lead exposure among Native American childrenDana M Petersen
School of Public Health, University of California, Berkeley, USA
Prog Community Health Partnersh 1:249-56. 2007..Tribal Efforts Against Lead (TEAL) was designed and implemented to study and address this problem using a lay health advisor model... - Environmental justice research and action: a case study in political economy and community-academic collaborationMansoureh Tajik
University of Massachusetts, Lowell, MA 01854, USA
Int Q Community Health Educ 26:213-31. 2006..Implications for other CBPR partnerships are discussed... - American Indian/Alaskan Native grandparents raising grandchildren: findings from the Census 2000 Supplementary SurveyEsme Fuller-Thomson
Faculty of Social Work, University of Toronto, ON, Canada
Soc Work 50:131-9. 2005..Implications for social work practice are presented and recommendations for policy and research are discussed... - Functional limitations among older American Indians and Alaska natives: findings from the census 2000 supplementary surveyEsme Fuller-Thomson
Faculty of Social Work, University of Toronto, 246 Bloor Street West, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Am J Public Health 95:1945-8. 2005..001). American Indian and Alaska Natives have high disability rates, and many are not receiving benefits for which they qualify... - Community-based participatory research: lessons learned from the Centers for Children's Environmental Health and Disease Prevention ResearchBarbara A Israel
University of Michigan School of Public Health, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA
Environ Health Perspect 113:1463-71. 2005.... - Housing issues and realities facing grandparent caregivers who are rentersEsme Fuller-Thomson
University of Toronto, Canada
Gerontologist 43:92-8. 2003..This study determined the prevalence of grandparents raising grandchildren who are living in rental housing and explored the sociodemographic characteristics and challenges faced by such renters... - Facilitators of well-functioning consortia: national Healthy Start program lessonsMildred Thompson
PolicyLink, 101 Broadway, Oakland, CA 94607, USA
Health Soc Work 28:185-95. 2003..Implications for social work practice and for policy are provided... - Self, society, and the "new gerontology"Martha B Holstein
Department of Religious Studies, DePaul University, Chicago, Illinois, USA
Gerontologist 43:787-96. 2003..We argue that these unexamined features may further harm older people, particularly older women, the poor, and people of color who are already marginalized. We conclude by suggesting forms of resistance to this univocal standard... - Addressing food security through public policy action in a community-based participatory research partnershipVictoria Breckwich Vásquez
Community Health Action and Assessment Section, City of Berkeley Public Health Division, California, USA
Health Promot Pract 8:342-9. 2007....