Conducting a Participatory Community-Based Survey for a Community Health Intervention on Detroitʼs East Side
Journal of Public Health Management and PracticePublished 1 March 1998
Amy J. Schulz, Edith A. Parker, Barbara A. Israel, A Becker, Barbara J. Maciak, Rose Hollis
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A participatory action research process that brought together community members, representatives from community-based organizations and service providers, and academic researchers to collect, interpret, and apply community information to address issues related to the health of women and children in a geographically defined urban area is described.
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This article describes a participatory action research process that brought together community members, representatives from community-based organizations and service providers, and academic researchers to collect, interpret, and apply community information to address issues related to the health of women and children in a geographically defined urban area. It describes the development and administration of a community-based survey designed to inform an intervention research project; discusses the establishment of a community/research partnership and issues that the partnership confronted in the process of developing and administering the survey; and examines the contributions of participants, and implications for research and collective action.
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