title: Empowerment: healthcare professionals' and community members' contributions.
abstract: Healthcare disparities for minorities are well reported and related to individual, provider and system characteristics. This paper reports a meta-synthesis of "empowerment with Hispanic and Latino people. This meta-synthesis utilized Noblit and Hare's meta-ethnographic method (1988) examining seven qualitative studies to discover strategies of empowerment by healthcare professionals for Hispanic/Latino people. Three themes were disclosed: strategies for empowerment, sharing power, and growth of the Hispanic/Latino culture in the United States. These themes expand existing conceptualizations of ways in which health care professionals and community members can work in a participatory research approach to improve healthcare outcomes as well as empowering the community.
authors.affiliation: University of Connecticut, USA. mariegraceus@yahoo.com
authors.forename: Mary Grace
authors.initials: MG
authors.lastname: Amendola
mesh_terms: D002170:Canada; D055812:Community-Based Participatory Research; D054521:Cultural Competency; D006293:Health Promotion / Q000379:methods*; D054625:Healthcare Disparities; D006630:Hispanic or Latino; D006801:Humans; D011209:Power, Psychological; D014481:United States; D035862:Vulnerable Populations