title: Community partnerships: the cornerstone of community health research.
abstract: Community partnerships have been recognized as the cornerstone of community research. The recent Institute of Medicine report, Unequal Treatment, puts forth the idea of creating community partnerships as a strategy to address racial and ethnic disparities in health care. Community-based research is frequently reported in the literature as a study conducted in the community versus with the community. The objective of this review is to examine models of community partnerships, to consider their implications for community-based research, and to identify directions for future nursing research.
authors.affiliation: University of California, San Francisco, School of Nursing, USA.
authors.forename: Carmen J
authors.initials: CJ
authors.lastname: Portillo
authors.forename: Catherine
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Waters
mesh_terms: D003152:Community Health Nursing / Q000458:organization & administration; D018672:Community Health Planning / Q000458:organization & administration; D019058:Community Networks / Q000458:organization & administration*; D003256:Community Participation / Q000379:methods / Q000523:psychology; D018864:Cultural Diversity; D005006:Ethnicity / Q000208:ethnology / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D005544:Forecasting; D006304:Health Status; D006801:Humans; D007373:Interinstitutional Relations; D007398:Interpersonal Relations; D008913:Minority Groups / Q000523:psychology / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D017146:Models, Organizational; D015969:National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine, U.S., Health and Medicine Division; D020380:Needs Assessment; D009734:Nursing Faculty Practice / Q000458:organization & administration; D015399:Nursing Research / Q000458:organization & administration*; D014481:United States