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ArticleJournal of general internal medicine2011

The role of community-based participatory research to inform local health policy: a case study.

Matthew J O'Brien, Robert C Whitaker

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Article in Journal of general internal medicine, 2011. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 22 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

22 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

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  18. Latino community-based participatory research studies: a model for conducting bilingual translations.Hispanic health care international : the official journal of the National Association of Hispanic Nurses · 2015
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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Matthew J O'BrienCenter for Obesity Research and Education, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA 19140, USA. mobrien@temple.edu
Robert C Whitaker

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The community of health services researchers in general internal medicine has played an important role in affecting health policy at the national and state levels. Community-based participatory research (CBPR) offers health services researchers an opportunity to identify and address health policy questions at the local level. We present the following four mechanisms by which CBPR might increase the ability of health services researchers to impact health by informing local policy. CBPR benefits community partners by allowing them to participate directly in the research process, gives academic researchers access to local data, enhances interpretation of research findings through an understanding of local context, and provides a natural infrastructure for affecting local policy through its community partners. For each of these mechanisms, we describe one example from a CBPR project conducted by one of us (M.O.). Considering the challenges and opportunities of conducting CBPR, future efforts will help describe how this emerging research paradigm can complement traditional health services research to most effectively inform health policy at multiple levels.

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Health PolicyCommunity-Based Participatory ResearchHealth Services ResearchHumans

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PMID21935750
PMCPMC3235621

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