TY - JOUR
T1 - A Participatory Action Research Pilot Study Of Urban Health Disparities Using Rapid Assessment Response and Evaluation
AU - Brown, David Richard
AU - Hernández, Agueda
AU - Saint-Jean, Gilbert
AU - Evans, Siân
AU - Tafari, Ida
AU - Brewster, Luther G.
AU - Celestin, Michel J.
AU - Gómez-Estefan, Carlos
AU - Regalado, Fernando
AU - Akal, Siri
AU - Nierenberg, Barry P.
AU - Kauschinger, Elaine D.
AU - Schwartz, Robert
AU - Page, J. Bryan
AU - Hernandez, Agueda
PY - 2008/1/1
Y1 - 2008/1/1
N2 - Healthy People 2010 made it a priority to eliminate health disparities. We used a rapid assessment response and evaluation (RARE) to launch a program of participatory action research focused on health disparities in an urban, disadvantaged Black community serviced by a major south Florida health center. We formed partnerships with community members, identified local health disparities, and guided interventions targeting health disparities. We describe the RARE structure used to triangulate data sources and guide intervention plans as well as findings and conclusions drawn from scientific literature and epidemiological, historic, planning, clinical, and ethnographic data. Disenfranchisement and socioeconomic deprivation emerged as the principal determinants of local health disparities and the most appropriate targets for intervention.
AB - Healthy People 2010 made it a priority to eliminate health disparities. We used a rapid assessment response and evaluation (RARE) to launch a program of participatory action research focused on health disparities in an urban, disadvantaged Black community serviced by a major south Florida health center. We formed partnerships with community members, identified local health disparities, and guided interventions targeting health disparities. We describe the RARE structure used to triangulate data sources and guide intervention plans as well as findings and conclusions drawn from scientific literature and epidemiological, historic, planning, clinical, and ethnographic data. Disenfranchisement and socioeconomic deprivation emerged as the principal determinants of local health disparities and the most appropriate targets for intervention.
KW - Community Health Workers
KW - Community Networks
KW - Consumer Participation
KW - Florida
KW - Focus Groups
KW - Healthcare Disparities
KW - Pilot Projects
KW - Poverty
KW - Quality of Health Care
KW - Urban Health Services
KW - Urban Population
UR - https://nsuworks.nova.edu/cps_facarticles/858
UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.2006.091363
U2 - 10.2105/AJPH.2006.091363
DO - 10.2105/AJPH.2006.091363
M3 - Article
VL - 98
JO - American Journal of Public Health
JF - American Journal of Public Health
ER -