Promoting Environmental Justice Through Community-Based Participatory Research: The Role of Community and Partnership Capacity

Health Education and Behavior - Tập 35 Số 1 - Trang 119-137 - 2008
Meredith Minkler1, Victoria Breckwich Vásquez2, Mansoureh Tajik3, Dana Petersen4
1School of Public Health, University of California, Berkeley 94720-7360, USA. [email protected]
2School of Public Health, University of California, Berkeley
3Department of Community Health and Sustainability School of Health and Environment, University of Massachusetts at Lowell
4Policy Division SRI International, Menlo Park, California

Tóm tắt

Community-based participatory research (CBPR) increasingly is being used to study and address environmental justice. This article presents the results of a cross-site case study of four CBPR partnerships in the United States that researched environmental health problems and worked to educate legislators and promote relevant public policy. The authors focus on community and partnership capacity within and across sites, using as a theoretical framework Goodman and his colleagues' dimensions of community capacity, as these were tailored to environmental health by Freudenberg, and as further modified to include partnership capacity within a systems perspective. The four CBPR partnerships examined were situated in NewYork, California, Oklahoma, and North Carolina and were part of a larger national study. 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.

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Health Education and Behavior

Tập 35 Số 1

119-137

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