Creating meaningful partnerships between communities and environmental health researchers: the role of a direct action community organizing agency

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• Personal Author:
  Aguilar GC ; de Castro AB ; De Souza R
• Description:
  Community engagement is a necessary, although challenging, element of environmental health research in communities. To facilitate the engagement process, direct action community organizing agencies can be useful in bringing together communities and researchers. This article describes the preliminary activities that one direct action community organizing agency used in partnership with researchers to improve community engagement in the first 6 months of an environmental health study conducted in a major U.S. city. Activities included developing communication strategies, creating opportunities for researcher-community interaction, and sustaining project momentum. To conduct environmental research that is both scientifically rigorous and relevant to communities, collaborating partners had to develop professional skills and strategies outside of their areas of expertise. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Community Health Services Environmental Health Environmental Monitoring Men Occupational Health Safety Women
• Keywords:
  Community Based Community Health Environmental-health Environmental-health-monitoring Humans Partnership
• ISSN:
  2165-0799
• Document Type:
  Text
• Funding:
  Grant
• Genre:
  Journal Article
• Place as Subject:
  OSHA Region 10 ; Washington
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  347-352
• Volume:
  61
• Issue:
  8
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20043375
• Citation:
  Workplace Health Saf 2013 Aug; 61(8):347-352
• Contact Point Address:
  A. B. de Castro, PhD, MSN/MPH, RN, Box 357263, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195
• Email:
  butchdec@uw.edu
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  2013
• Performing Organization:
  University of Washington
• Peer Reviewed:
  True
• Start Date:
  20050701
• Source Full Name:
  Workplace Health & Safety
• End Date:
  20250630
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:fd78d9b08a326111784e36a449d3588263c0e7fefc64b016b137c02eed07eea86e2659aaf441636dd9276360e17743e802d7640ffb1e803401602405139f7422
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/195292/cdc_195292_DS1.pdf
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