Community-based participatory research: a capacity-building approach for policy advocacy aimed at eliminating health disparities.
There have been increasing calls for community-academic partnerships to enhance the capacity of partners to engage in policy advocacy aimed at eliminating health disparities. Community-based participatory research (CBPR) is a partnership approach that can facilitate capacity building and policy change through equitable engagement of diverse partners. Toward this end, the Detroit Community-Academic Urban Research Center, a long-standing CBPR partnership, has conducted a policy training project. We describe CBPR and its relevance to health disparities; the interface between CBPR, policy advocacy, and health disparities; the rationale for capacity building to foster policy advocacy; and the process and outcomes of our policy advocacy training. We discuss lessons learned and implications for CBPR and policy advocacy to eliminate health disparities.
Israel
Barbara A
BA
Department of Health Behavior and Health Education, School of Public Health, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA. ilanais@umich.edu
Coombe
Chris M
CM
Cheezum
Rebecca R
RR
Schulz
Amy J
AJ
McGranaghan
Robert J
RJ
Lichtenstein
Richard
R
Reyes
Angela G
AG
Clement
Jaye
J
Burris
Akosua
A
D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D057191:Capacity Building; D055812:Community-Based Participatory Research / Q000379:methods / Q000458:organization & administration; D003159:Community-Institutional Relations; D005260:Female; D007722:Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice; D006291:Health Policy; D054624:Health Status Disparities; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008824:Michigan; D017146:Models, Organizational; D010344:Patient Advocacy / Q000193:education; D011050:Policy Making; D020377:Self Efficacy; D012922:Social Change; D055815:Young Adult