Farmworker pesticide exposure and community-eased participation research: Rationale and practical applications
Farmworker pesticide exposure and community-eased participation research: Rationale and practical applications
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DOI：
10.2307/3434791
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发表时间：
2001-06-01
影响因子：
10.4
通讯作者：
Dearry, A
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作者：
Arcury, TA;Quandt, SA;Dearry, A
农业农药接触的后果仍然是农村社区的主要环境健康问题。基于社区的参与性研究（CBPR）是解决环境原因造成的健康差异的重要方法。在本文中，我们介绍了一系列文章，这些文章描述了使用CBPR解决农业社区（特别是移民和季节性农场工人社区）农药暴露导致的健康差异的项目。本文集中的文章基于1999年美国公共卫生协会会议召开的一次研讨会。本汇编的目的是为那些努力启动CBPR项目的人提供所需的信息、指导方针和程序，以提高CBPR经验的质量；提高CBPR项目的科学有效性；并减少这些合作的潜在困难和压力。在这篇引言中，我们讨论了这些项目运作的背景，总结了美国农场工人的背景信息，对农场工人农药暴露的了解，以及基于社区的参与性研究的概念。最后，总结了本系列中的文章，并确定了成功的CBPR项目共同的主要主题。这些共同的特点是花时间与社区互动，使用多种方法让社区的不同部分参与进来，了解不同的参与者通常有不同的目标，欣赏每个群体的优势，重视社区知识，以及在进行研究时灵活和创造性。本系列的最后一篇文章描述了国家环境健康科学研究所（NIEHS）的转化研究项目，重点介绍了与农村社区健康相关的活动，概述了NIEHS支持的项目，这些项目解决了美洲原住民和农村非洲裔美国人社区以及农场工人的健康问题，并讨论了NIEHS未来的CBPR计划。
The consequences of agricultural pesticide exposure continue to be major environmental health problems in rural communities. Community-based participatory research (CBPR) is an important approach to redressing health disparities resulting from environmental causes. In this article we introduce a collection of articles that describe projects using CBPR to address the health disparities resulting from pesticide exposure in agricultural communities, particularly the communities of migrant and seasonal farmworkers. The articles in this collection are based on a workshop convened at the 1999 American Public Health Association meeting. The goals in presenting this collection are to provide those endeavoring to initiate CBPR projects needed information, guidelines, and procedures to improve the quality of the CBPR experience; to increase the scientific validity of CBPR projects; and to reduce the potential difficulties and stress of these collaborations. In this introduction we discuss the context in which these projects operate, summarizing background information about farmworkers in the United States, what is known about farmworker pesticide exposure, and the concept of community-based participatory research. Finally, the articles in this collection are summarized, and major themes common to successful CBPR projects are identified. These common features are taking the time to interact with the community, using multiple approaches to engage the different parts of the community, understanding different participants often have different goals, appreciating each group's strengths, valuing community knowledge, and being flexible and creative in conducting research. The final article in this collection describes the translational research program at the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) highlighting activities pertinent to the health of rural communities, giving an overview of NIEHS-supported projects addressing health concerns of Native Americans and rural African-American communities in addition to farmworkers, and discussing future plans for CBPR at NIEHS.