The Promise of Community-Based Participatory Research for Health Equity: A Conceptual Model for Bridging Evidence With Policy

Authors: Lisa Cacari-Stone, Nina Wallerstein, Analilia P. Garcia, and Meredith Minkler
Am J Public Health.
Published online ahead of print July 17, 2014

Abstract / Resumen:

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 policy making.

Keywords / Palabras clave: Health Inquity, Health System

How to obtain this article / Como obtener el artículo http://ajph.aphapublications.org/doi/abs/10.2105/AJPH.2014.301961

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