title: Story of Stone Soup: a recipe to improve health disparities.
abstract: Just as scientific articles are used as a way of sharing knowledge in scientific communities, stories are used as a way of transferring knowledge within African American communities. This article uses the story and metaphor of Stone Soup to illustrate the Healthy African American Families' (HAAF) Community Partnered Participatory Research (CPPR) method of engaging diverse partners to address health issues, such as preterm birth, depression, diabetes, and kidney disease, and to create community-wide change through education, capacity building, resource sharing, and intervention development.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences, David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California at Los Angeles, USA. bchung@mednet.ucla.edu
authors.forename: Bowen
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Chung
authors.forename: Loretta
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Jones
authors.forename: Chrystene
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Terry
authors.forename: Andrea
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Jones
authors.forename: Nell
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Forge
authors.forename: Keith C
authors.initials: KC
authors.lastname: Norris
mesh_terms: D001741:Black or African American; D003153:Community Health Services; D055812:Community-Based Participatory Research / Q000379:methods / Q000458:organization & administration*; D005192:Family Health / Q000208:ethnology*; D006266:Health Education; D054624:Health Status Disparities; D006801:Humans; D015141:Los Angeles; D008427:Maternal Health Services; D019365:Metaphor; D055818:Public-Private Sector Partnerships / Q000458:organization & administration*