Opening doors and building capacity: Employing a community-based approach to surveying
Opening doors and building capacity: Employing a community-based approach to surveying
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DOI：
10.1093/jurban/jth115
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发表时间：
2004-06-01
影响因子：
6.6
通讯作者：
Billings, J
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作者：
Kaplan, SA;Dillman, KN;Billings, J
虽然许多以社区为基础的倡议雇用社区居民进行挨家挨户的调查，作为社区动员的一种形式，或用于评估或评价需求，但关于这种办法的优缺点的出版物很少。本文讨论了我们与纽约南布朗克斯的社区组织联盟（cbo）合作开展此类调查的经验。虽然资源限制限制了cbo提供监督的能力，但cbo和社区调查员帮助我们进入社区建筑物和个人，否则他们可能无法进入。调查过程还有助于联盟的社区外展工作，并有助于将国会预算办公室的领导层和工作人员与联盟及其使命更紧密地联系起来。许多测量员提高了他们的知识和技能，使他们自己或联盟直接受益。参与的cbo继续深入参与联盟的工作，许多调查员作为社区卫生倡导者积极参与，并在联盟中发挥领导作用。
Although many community-based initiatives employ community residents to undertake door-to-door surveys as a form of community mobilization or for purposes of needs assessment or evaluation, very little has been published on the strengths and weaknesses of this approach. This article discusses our experience in undertaking such a survey in collaboration with a coalition of community-based organizations (CBOs) in the South Bronx, New York. Although resource constraints limited the already-strained capacity of the CBOs to provide supervision, the CBOs and community surveyors helped us gain access to neighborhood buildings and to individuals who might otherwise have been inaccessible. The survey process also contributed to the coalition's community outreach efforts and helped to link the CBO leadership and staff more closely to the coalition and its mission. Many of the surveyors enhanced their knowledge and skills in ways that have since benefited them or the coalition directly. The participating CBOs continue to be deeply engaged in the coalition's work, and many of the surveyors are active as community health advocates and have taken leadership roles within the coalition.