Can public health researchers and agencies reconcile the push from funding bodies and the pull from communities?
Can public health researchers and agencies reconcile the push from funding bodies and the pull from communities?
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DOI：
10.2105/ajph.91.12.1926
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发表时间：
2001-12-01
影响因子：
12.7
通讯作者：
Mercer, SL
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作者：
Green, LW;Mercer, SL
由于人们越来越不耐烦将研究成果有限地应用于卫生实践和政策，供资机构和社区都要求研究对社区的看法、需求和独特情况表现出更大的敏感性。确保这一点的一种方法是采用参与式研究，使社区至少参与制定研究问题和解释和应用研究结果，并可能在选择方法和分析数据。“社区”应广义地解释为所有将受研究结果影响的人，包括当地的非专业居民、从业人员、服务机构和政策制定者。不应要求每个项目都进行前瞻性研究，但当成果将用于社区、在社区中使用并由社区使用时，这些社区不仅应在应用研究结果方面进行合作，而且还应在确定产生和解释研究结果的方式方面进行合作。
Responding to growing impatience with the limited application of research findings to health practices and policies, both funding bodies and communities are demanding that research show greater sensitivity to communities' perceptions, needs, and unique circumstances. One way to assure this is to employ participatory research-to engage communities at least in formulating research questions and interpreting and applying research findings and possibly also in selecting methods and analyzing data."Community" should be interpreted broadly as all who will be affected by the research results, including lay residents of a local area, practitioners, service agencies, and policymakers. Participatory research should not be required of every project, but when results are to be used for, in, and by communities, those communities should collaborate not only in applying findings but also in determining the ways in which the findings are produced and interpreted.