Crossing the chasm of mistrust: Collaborating with immigrant populations through community organizations and academic partners

A. Pirie and D.M. Gute

American Journal of Public Health, 2013, vol. 103, issue 12, 2126-2130

Abstract: As a community partner and an academic researcher, we experienced the direct and extended benefits of a relatively small-scale, community engaged informed consent process that developed in an immigrant occupational health study, Assessing and Controlling Occupational Health Risks for Immigrant Populations in Somerville, Massachusetts. The practice of human participants research played a positive role in the community, and both community partners and researchers, as well as the larger academic community, reaped unexpected benefits during the five-year project (2005-2010), which continue into the present. Lessons learned from our experience may be helpful for wider application.

Keywords: community care; cooperation; health services research; Hispanic; human; migrant; occupational health; participatory research; public health; trust; United States; university hospital; article; migration, Academic Medical Centers; Community Networks; Community-Based Participatory Research; Cooperative Behavior; Emigrants and Immigrants; Hispanic Americans; Humans; Massachusetts; Occupational Health; Organizational Case Studies; Public Health; Trust, Academic Medical Centers; Community Networks; Community-Based Participatory Research; Cooperative Behavior; Emigrants and Immigrants; Hispanic Americans; Humans; Massachusetts; Occupational Health; Organizational Case Studies; Public Health; Trust (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2013
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