The promise of community-based participatory research for health equity: A conceptual model for bridging evidence with policy

L. Cacari-Stone, N. Wallerstein, A.P. Garcia and M. Minkler

American Journal of Public Health, 2014, vol. 104, issue 9, 1615-1623

Abstract: Insufficient attention has been paid to how research can be leveraged to promote health policy or how locality-based research strategies, in particular community-based participatory research (CBPR), influences health policy to eliminate racial and ethnic health inequities. To address this gap, we highlighted the efforts of 2 CBPR partnerships in California to explore how these initiatives made substantial contributions to policymaking for health equity. We presented a new conceptual model and 2 case studies to illustrate the connections among CBPR contexts and processes, policymaking processes and strategies, and outcomes. We extended the critical role of civic engagement by those communities that were most burdened by health inequities by focusing on their political participation as research brokers in bridging evidence and policymaking.

Keywords: ancestry group; article; consumer; cooperation; environmental exposure; ethnic group; health care policy; health disparity; human; legal aspect; management; organization and management; participatory research; politics; pollution; social justice; United States, California; Community-Based Participatory Research; Consumer Participation; Continental Population Groups; Cooperative Behavior; Environmental Exposure; Environmental Pollution; Ethnic Groups; Health Policy; Health Status Disparities; Humans; Policy Making; Politics; Social Justice (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014
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DOI: 10.2105/AJPH.2014.301961

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