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Applying the principles of CBPR.pdf
1. Discussion: Applying the principles of CBPR
Discussion: Applying the principles of CBPRDiscussion: Applying the principles of
CBPRAcross the globe, there is a widely-held belief that science, including the health
sciences, is (and should be) planned and conducted by scientists and health professionals.
However, when it comes to understanding populations and communities, it is difficult for an
outsider to understand what is really going on inside a community. Researchers and health
professionals may visit a community and measure the number of people who access a
screening service, or have been vaccinated, or who attend an alcohol recovery program.
These researchers may even conduct a focus group of local citizens to find out what they
think about the vaccination program, or a spike in teenage suicide, or any one of thousands
of possible events in the community. However, the only way to truly understand a
community is to collaborate with community members in organizing and implementing the
inquiry.This is the basis for Community-Based Participatory Research (CBPR)— also known
as “Participatory Research” or “Participatory Public Health Research”—in which community
members play an active role in researching local problems and planning the programs
intended to solve them. The principal objective of CBPR is to make communities active
agents in health research, not just passive participants. The idea is that people who
experience a problem every day are likely to understand that problem best; and solutions
based on that understanding are likely to be the most effective ones. It is this level of agency
and engagement that makes an intervention program more amenable to the community and
thus more successful.CBPR is not simply a set of techniques; it represents a shift in attitude
and power relations away from the traditional “top-down” approach to a more “community-
driven,” “bottom-up” approach. In the practice of CBPR, health professionals learn to accept
community members as their partners in deciding what will be examined and in the
collection and analysis of data. For many health professionals, this shift is one of the most
challenging aspects of CBPR—sharing power with the communities they are here to
serve!For this Discussion, you will select a case study and critique the study by applying the
principles of CBPR as set forth in your Minkler and Wallerstein textbook.With these
thoughts in mind:Read this week’s Learning Resources, focusing on the principles of CBPR
laid out in Chapter 3 of your Minkler and Wallerstein text and on the Case Studies in
Chapter 10 of that text.Select one of the case studies from Chapter 10 of Minkler and
Wallerstein for your Discussion post.AssignmentIdentify the case study you have chosen,
and provide a 2- to 3-paragraph critique of that case study using the principles of CBPR as
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