Measuring the success of community science: the northern California Household Exposure Study.
Measuring the success of community science: the northern California Household Exposure Study.
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DOI：
10.1289/ehp.1103734
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发表时间：
2012-03
影响因子：
10.4
通讯作者：
Rudel RA
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文献类型：
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作者：
Brown P;Brody JG;Morello-Frosch R;Tovar J;Zota AR;Rudel RA
背景：自 20 世纪 90 年代中期国家环境健康科学研究所 (NIEHS) 环境正义和社区参与性研究 (CBPR) 伙伴关系开始以来，涉及社区参与的环境健康研究大幅增加。这些伙伴关系的目标是为有关暴露的更好决策提供信息并赋予其权力，培养信任并产生科学知识，以减少低收入少数群体社区的环境健康差异。同行评审的出版物和临床健康结果本身不足以判断项目是否成功实现这些目标；因此，需要新的评估成功的策略。目标：我们审查了用于评估我们的项目“将乳腺癌宣传与环境正义联系起来”的方法，以帮助确定成功的 CBPR 方法并协助其他团队记录有效性。尽管我们的项目先于 NIEHS 评估指标手册的制定，该手册是评估通过环境公共卫生合作伙伴关系 (PEPH) 资助的项目成功与否的模式，但我们在此报告的工作说明了 NIEHS PEPH 中预期的记录保存和自我反思。讨论：评估策略应评估 CBPR 伙伴关系如何实现所有合作伙伴的目标。我们的合作伙伴关系包括两个强大的社区组织，组建了一支帮助所有合作伙伴获得组织能力的团队。在家庭中进行环境采样并报告该工作的结果有社区教育和选区建设的好处。科学结果促成了一项法院判决，要求对炼油厂进行累积影响评估，并制定了针对消费品中使用的化学品的新政策。所有合作伙伴都利用额外资金来扩展他们的工作。结论：适当的评估策略可以展示 CBPR 项目如何推动科学发展、支持社区赋权、提高环境健康素养以及采取个人和政策行动来保护健康。
Background: Environmental health research involving community participation has increased substantially since the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) environmental justice and community-based participatory research (CBPR) partnerships began in the mid-1990s. The goals of these partnerships are to inform and empower better decisions about exposures, foster trust, and generate scientific knowledge to reduce environmental health disparities in low-income, minority communities. Peer-reviewed publication and clinical health outcomes alone are inadequate criteria to judge the success of projects in meeting these goals; therefore, new strategies for evaluating success are needed. Objectives: We reviewed the methods used to evaluate our project, “Linking Breast Cancer Advocacy and Environmental Justice,” to help identify successful CBPR methods and to assist other teams in documenting effectiveness. Although our project precedes the development of the NIEHS Evaluation Metrics Manual, a schema to evaluate the success of projects funded through the Partnerships in Environmental Public Health (PEPH), our work reported here illustrates the record keeping and self-reflection anticipated in NIEHS’s PEPH. Discussion: Evaluation strategies should assess how CBPR partnerships meet the goals of all partners. Our partnership, which included two strong community-based organizations, produced a team that helped all partners gain organizational capacity. Environmental sampling in homes and reporting the results of that effort had community education and constituency-building benefits. Scientific results contributed to a court decision that required cumulative impact assessment for an oil refinery and to new policies for chemicals used in consumer products. All partners leveraged additional funding to extend their work. Conclusions: An appropriate evaluation strategy can demonstrate how CBPR projects can advance science, support community empowerment, increase environmental health literacy, and generate individual and policy action to protect health.
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DOI：
10.1186/1476-069x-8-6
发表时间：
2009-02-28
期刊：
Environmental health : a global access science source
影响因子：
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作者：
Morello-Frosch R;Brody JG;Brown P;Altman RG;Rudel RA;Pérez C
通讯作者：
Pérez C
影响因子：
12.7
作者：
Baron, Sherry;Sinclair, Raymond;O'Fallon, Liam R
通讯作者：
O'Fallon, Liam R
影响因子：
11.4
作者：
Rudel, Ruthann A.;Dodson, Robin E.;Perovich, Laura J.;Morello-Frosch, Rachel;Camann, David E.;Zuniga, Michelle M.;Yau, Alice Y.;Just, Allan C.;Brody, Julia Green
通讯作者：
Brody, Julia Green
影响因子：
10.4
作者：
O'Fallon LR;Dearry A
通讯作者：
Dearry A
影响因子：
3.1
作者：
Brown, Phil;McCormick, Sabrina;Senier, Laura
通讯作者：
Senier, Laura