Community-based Participatory Research Contributions to Intervention Research: the Intersection of Science and Practice to Improve Health Equity

Overview

Journal Am J Public Health

Specialty Public Health

Date 2010 Feb 12

PMID 20147663

Citations 809

Authors

Nina Wallerstein

Bonnie Duran

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Abstract

Community-based participatory research (CBPR) has emerged in the last decades as a transformative research paradigm that bridges the gap between science and practice through community engagement and social action to increase health equity. CBPR expands the potential for the translational sciences to develop, implement, and disseminate effective interventions across diverse communities through strategies to redress power imbalances; facilitate mutual benefit among community and academic partners; and promote reciprocal knowledge translation, incorporating community theories into the research. We identify the barriers and challenges within the intervention and implementation sciences, discuss how CBPR can address these challenges, provide an illustrative research example, and discuss next steps to advance the translational science of CBPR.

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