Developing community health promotion interventions: selecting partners and fostering collaboration.
Although an often desired goal, true partnership between community members and university researchers can be difficult to achieve. Strategies implemented in a diabetes prevention and control program in a Latino community may be effective in overcoming hurdles to collaborative research. The development of selection criteria can be useful for objectively choosing a community organization as a partner agency. The implementation of formal partnership principles is proposed as a strategy for building a successful partnership. Partnership principles are a powerful mechanism to assure ethical relations between collaborators. As a strategy for process evaluation, they can help organize data on the extent to which intent has translated into action. They provide a structure for project stability that can outlast individual commitments and a mechanism to keep project commitment on course and maintain active engagement.
Levy
Susan R
SR
University of Illinois, Chicago School of Public Health, USA.
Baldyga
William
W
Jurkowski
Janine M
JM
D002641:Chicago; D018672:Community Health Planning / Q000458:organization & administration*; D003299:Cooperative Behavior; D006293:Health Promotion / Q000458:organization & administration*; D006801:Humans; D007373:Interinstitutional Relations; D009935:Organizational Affiliation; D016730:Program Development; D014495:Universities / Q000458:organization & administration*