Study about Strategy for Building Healthy Communities and Promoting Health through Policy Change
Introduction: when the discipline and drive for answers, so integral to good research, are combined with the commitment, passion, and strategic thinking of good organizing, the result can be a very powerful tool in the effort to eliminate health disparities. the principles of effective community-based participatory research (cbPr), as derived from projects all over the country and around the world over several decades, can provide very useful lessons for groups who are beginning to think about, or engage in, this work as a means of studying and improving community health and well-being.
These lessons can be augmented and brought to life by the experiences of cbPr partnerships in california. this report combines lessons and best practices from around the country with insights drawn from six case studies set in california. background and context are provided, along with promising practices and sample resources and tools to assist local leaders in planning their own cbPr-inspired projects.as partnerships using cbPr proliferate in california, more of these efforts are going the distance, from recognition and definition of a problem all the way to bringing about policy changes. Keep reading…
