Main description:

This second edition of a highly regarded textbook on the foundations of and strategies for achieving fertile community-based health care research has been completely revised and updated. It now includes new chapters on translating research into practice, evaluating research, and applying community-based participatory research (CBPR) principles to service, education, and evaluation. The book also updates a crucial chapter on the voices of community stakeholders and an important study of the ethical issues surrounding the Tuskegee Syphilis Study. Edited by renowned professors of community-based research, the text is distinguished by its focus on practical research methods and ""how-to"" approach.

The text discusses the unique challenges of conducting CBPR and addresses ways to build and sustain community partnerships. It explores ethical issues regarding health care research, includes input from community stakeholders, and describes national and international support for CBPR. Research methods covered include qualitative studies, surveys, and intervention trials. Applications of CBPR illustrate how to translate research into practice and community-based participatory approaches to service, education, and evaluation.

Second edition includes new chapters on:

Building and sustaining researcher-community partnerships
National and international investments in and support for CBPR
Surveys and methods for conducting CBPR
Translating research into practice
Community-based participatory approaches to service, education, and evaluation

Contents:

PART ONE: ISSUES

1. Introduction 2. Building partnerships 3. Ethics 4. The View from the Community 5. National and International Support for CBPR

PART II. METHODS

6. Qualitative studies

7. Surveys

8. Intervention trials

PART THREE: APPLICATIONS

9. Translating research to practice

10. Community-based participatory approaches to service

11. Community-based participatory approaches to education

12. Community-based participatory approaches to evaluation