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Alternative Title:
Workplace Health Saf
Personal Author:
De Souza, Rachael ; Aguilar, Genevieve C. ; de Castro, A. B.
De Souza, Rachael ; Aguilar, Genevieve C. ; de Castro, A. B. Less -
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.
Subject:
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Cities
Community-Based Participatory Research
Community-Institutional Relations
Cooperative Behavior
Environmental Health
Humans
Occupational Health

Source:
Workplace Health Saf. 61(8):347-352
Pubmed ID:
23875568
Pubmed Central ID:
PMC4078074
Document Type:
Journal Article
Funding:
KL2 RR025015/RR/NCRR NIH HHS/United States ; T42 OH008433/OH/NIOSH CDC HHS/United States ; 2T42OH008433-06/OH/NIOSH CDC HHS/United States ; 5KL2RR025015/RR/NCRR NIH HHS/United States
KL2 RR025015/RR/NCRR NIH HHS/United States ; T42 OH008433/OH/NIOSH CDC HHS/United States ; 2T42OH008433-06/OH/NIOSH CDC HHS/United States ; 5KL2RR025015/RR/NCRR NIH HHS/United States Less -
Place as Subject:
United States
Collection(s):
CDC Public Access
Main Document Checksum:
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urn:sha256:2c6418eba9e8d8cc1e0e6aadae9eb303317d44c4a502d9e8404be7bc6c62655c
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