The Three Rs: How Community-Based Participatory Research Strengthens the Rigor, Relevance, and Reach of Science
The Three Rs: How Community-Based Participatory Research Strengthens the Rigor, Relevance, and Reach of Science
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DOI：
10.1089/env.2012.0017
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发表时间：
2013-02-01
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2
通讯作者：
Morello-Frosch, Rachel
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作者：
Balazs, Carolina L.;Morello-Frosch, Rachel
在过去的几十年里，基于社区的参与性研究(CBPR)已经成为将环境健康和正义倡导者与研究机构联系起来，以了解和解决环境健康问题的一种重要方法。CBPR通常因其对政策、监管和对社区科学的支持的影响而受到评估。然而，人们不太重视评估CBPR(重新)塑造和潜在地改进科学事业本身的方式。这篇评论集中在CBPR这一未被强调的方面--它如何加强科学。利用环境健康CBPR研究的两个案例研究--北加州家庭暴露研究和圣华金河谷饮用水研究--我们假设CBPR有助于提高科学的“三个R”--严谨性、相关性和覆盖面--这样做有利于科学事业本身。
In the last few decades, community-based participatory research (CBPR) has emerged as an important approach that links environmental health and justice advocates with research institutions to understand and address environmental health problems. CBPR has generally been evaluated for its impact on policy, regulation, and its support of community science. However, there has been less emphasis on assessing the ways in which CBPR (re) shapes and potentially improves the scientific enterprise itself. This commentary focuses on this under-emphasized aspect of CBPR-how it can strengthen science. Using two case studies of environmental health CBPR research-the Northern California Household Exposure Study, and the San Joaquin Valley Drinking Water Study-we posit that CBPR helps improve the "3 Rs'' of science-rigor, relevance and reach-and in so doing benefits the scientific enterprise itself.