Papers by Meredith Minkler
Jossey-Bass eBooks, 2008
... PARTICIPATORY RESEARCH REFERENCES CHAPTER 1 - INTRODUCTION TO COMMUNITY-BASED PARTICIPATORY R... more ... PARTICIPATORY RESEARCH REFERENCES CHAPTER 1 - INTRODUCTION TO COMMUNITY-BASED PARTICIPATORY RESEARCH THE GROWING ... Page 4. CHAPTER 2 - THE THEORETICAL, HISTORICAL, AND PRACTICE ROOTS OF CBPR HISTORICAL ROOTS ...
Rutgers University Press eBooks, Dec 31, 2022
Rutgers University Press eBooks, Dec 31, 2022
Rutgers University Press eBooks, Dec 31, 2022
American Journal of Industrial Medicine, Jan 11, 2010
Restaurant workers have among the highest rates of work-related illness and injury in the US, but... more Restaurant workers have among the highest rates of work-related illness and injury in the US, but little is known about the working conditions and occupational health status of Chinese immigrant restaurant workers. Community-based participatory research (CBPR) was employed to study restaurant working conditions and worker health in San Francisco's Chinatown. A community/academic/health department collaborative was formed and 23 restaurant workers trained on research techniques and worker health and safety. A worker survey instrument and a restaurant observational checklist were collaboratively developed. The checklist was piloted in 71 Chinatown restaurants, and the questionnaire administered to 433 restaurant workers. Restaurant workers, together with other partners, made substantial contributions to construction of the survey and checklist tools and improved their cultural appropriateness. The utility of the checklist tool for restaurant-level data collection was demonstrated. CBPR holds promise for both studying worker health and safety among immigrant Chinese restaurant workers and developing culturally appropriate research tools. A new observational checklist also has potential for restaurant-level data collection on worker health and safety conditions.
Rutgers University Press eBooks, Dec 31, 2019
Health Education & Behavior, Nov 16, 2022
Rutgers University Press eBooks, Dec 31, 2022
American Journal of Community Psychology, 2021
The World Health Organization's (WHO’s) Declaration of Alma Ata in 1978 made Primary Health C... more The World Health Organization's (WHO’s) Declaration of Alma Ata in 1978 made Primary Health Care (PHC) the official health policy of all WHO member countries, stressing the importance of multisectoral collaboration and community empowerment as critical for delivering quality primary healthcare and public health services to achieve social justice and health equity. Over forty years later, a divide remains between seeing individual patients in the traditional biomedical model and addressing population‐level social determinants of health. One promising approach for the intentional and active integration of multi‐sectoral partnering practices and community empowerment into Primary Health Care is the use of community‐based participatory research (CBPR). The power of CBPR lies in its systematic approach to facilitating equitable collaboration of partners based on community priorities and strengths and is increasingly recognized for improving health equity outcomes. This paper highligh...
Tienda online donde Comprar Solvent Microextraction: Theory and Practice al precio 94,69 € de Mer... more Tienda online donde Comprar Solvent Microextraction: Theory and Practice al precio 94,69 € de Meredith Minkler | Nina Wallerstein | John M Kokosa | Andrzej Przyjazny | Michael Jeannot, tienda de Libros de Medicina, Libros de Epidemiologia, Salud Publica y Estadistica - Salud Publica
Alicia L. Salvatore, DrPH, Jonathan Chevrier,PhD, Asa Bradman, PhD, Jose´ Camacho,Jesu´sLo´pez, G... more Alicia L. Salvatore, DrPH, Jonathan Chevrier,PhD, Asa Bradman, PhD, Jose´ Camacho,Jesu´sLo´pez, Geri Kavanagh-Baird, BA,Meredith Minkler, DrPH,and Brenda Eskenazi, PhDWe evaluated a community-based participatory research work-site intervention intended to im-prove farmworkers’ behaviors atwork and after work to reduce oc-cupational and take-home pesti-cide exposures. The workersreceived warm water and soap forhand washing, gloves, coveralls,and education. Self-reported as-sessments before and after the in-tervention revealed that glove use,wearing clean work clothes, andhand washing at the midday breakand before going home improvedsignificantly. Some behaviors, suchas hand washing before eating andmany targeted after-work behaviors,did not improve, indicating a needfor additional intervention. (Am JPublic Health. 2009;99:S578–S581.doi:10.2105/AJPH.2008.149146)Agricultural pesticide exposure amongfarmworkers is a long-standing occupationalhealth and environmental justice concern.
American Journal of Community Psychology, 2020
Understanding what contributes to success of community‐based participatory research (CBPR) partne... more Understanding what contributes to success of community‐based participatory research (CBPR) partnerships is essential to ensuring their effectiveness in addressing health disparities and health inequities. Synergy, the concept of accomplishing more together than separately, is central to partnership effectiveness. However, synergy specific to long‐standing, equity‐focused CBPR partnerships has not been closely examined. To address this, we defined and developed measures of partnership synergy as one dimension of a participatory mixed methods study, Measurement Approaches to Partnership Success (MAPS), to develop a validated instrument to measure success in long‐standing CBPR partnerships. Framed by a conceptual model and scoping literature review, we conducted in‐depth interviews with a national panel of academic and community experts in CBPR and equity to develop partnership synergy measures. Items were refined through an iterative process, including a three‐stage Delphi process, co...
American Journal of Public Health, 2019
In low-income neighborhoods without supermarkets, lack of healthy food access often is exacerbate... more In low-income neighborhoods without supermarkets, lack of healthy food access often is exacerbated by the saturation of small corner stores with tobacco and unhealthy foods and beverages. We describe a municipal healthy retail program in San Francisco, California, focusing on the role of a local coalition in program implementation and outcomes in the city’s low income Tenderloin neighborhood. By incentivizing selected corner stores to become healthy retailers, and through community engagement and cross-sector partnerships, the program is seeing promising outcomes, including a “ripple effect” of improvement across nonparticipating neighborhood stores.
American journal of health promotion : AJHP
is most widely known among Americans for his years being the surgeon general, the vast bulk of Ko... more is most widely known among Americans for his years being the surgeon general, the vast bulk of Koop's career was spent as a practicing physician. While a surgeon in Philadelphia, Koop performed groundbreaking surgical procedures on conjoined twins, invented techniques that today are commonly used for infant surgery, and saved the lives of countless children who otherwise might have been allowed to die. We remember Dr. Koop for three facets of his work: Abortion: Though Koop was philosophically opposed to abortion on personal and religious grounds, he declined to state that abortion procedures performed by qualified medical professionals posed a substantial health risk to the women whose pregnancies were being terminated, despite political pressure to endorse such a position. Tobacco: In 1984, Dr. Koop wrote that nicotine has addictiveness similar to that of heroin or cocaine. Koop's report was somewhat unexpected, especially by those who expected him to maintain the status quo in regard to his office's position on tobacco products. Koop also instituted the practice of requiring rotated health warning labels on cigarette packs and required advertising to include the labels, although some warnings had been required since 1965. AIDS: Dr. Koop wrote the official U.S. policy on the disease and took unprecedented action in mailing AIDS information to every U.S. household. Applying Dr. Koop's Ideas Dr. Koop epitomized the importance of science in policy making, especially in a partisan political climate. Although Dr. Koop was a conservative Republican with strong religious beliefs, his public pronouncements were loud, clear, and evidence-based. To this day, he is still the individual most remembered as the nation's doctor. Significantly, Dr. Koop was a strong proponent of health promotion, never failing to remind his audiences that modifiable health behaviors exert a significant influence on the onset of acute and chronic diseases. Dr. Koop's influence is still felt today: he founded The Health Project (www.thehealthproject.com), which each year awards the Koop Prize to organizations that have improved population health and saved money and have the data to support their accomplishments.
Tobacco Control, 2018
BackgroundCalifornia’s tobacco tax increased by $2.00 per pack in 2017. Although such increases a... more BackgroundCalifornia’s tobacco tax increased by $2.00 per pack in 2017. Although such increases are among the most effective tobacco control strategies, little is known about their impact from the perspective of corner store owners in low-income neighbourhoods with high concentrations of tobacco outlets.MethodsWe interviewed 38 corner store owners and managers in San Francisco’s Tenderloin, the district with the city’s highest tobacco outlet density, 60–90 days following implementation of the tax increase. Questions focused on perceptions of the impact of the higher tobacco tax on their revenues, customers and tobacco company promotions. We used qualitative content analysis to identify, compare and reconcile key themes.ResultsMost retailers reported a decline in cigarette sales, with customers buying fewer cigarettes, switching to cheaper brands or other products like marijuana, or trying to quit smoking. Retailers described challenges associated with running a small business and se...
Migration and Health, 2019
Health Promotion International, 2015
Since this article went to press, evidence has emerged of a recent and substantial decline in new... more Since this article went to press, evidence has emerged of a recent and substantial decline in new Ebola cases and fatalities in the affected countries. However, this and other Viral Hemorrhagic Fevers remain a reality and tend to occur in cycles. The process presented in this paper still has relevance for prevention and containment efforts, both now and in the future.
Rutgers University Press, 2012
Fields such as public health and social work may be described as "an inescapably moral enterprise... more Fields such as public health and social work may be described as "an inescapably moral enterprise[s]," concerned as they are with determining what we as societies and communities ought to do to pursue the public's health and well-being (Petrini 2010; Dunn 1983). These, and related social change professions are governed by codes of ethics (for example, see National Association of Social Workers (2008) and the Coalition of National Health Education Organizations (2010) that serve as primarily prescriptive guidelines for appropriate conduct. Central to these codes are core values-social justice, empowerment, participation, wellness, selfdetermination, dignity, and respect. Ethical dilemmas arise when these values come into conflict while solutions are sought to a given problem or an intervention is implemented (Harrington and Dolgoff 2008). Recognizing and resolving these dilemmas is an essential skill for practitioners, including community organizers, health educators, and capacity builders. And while there are numerous frameworks for ethical decision making, this process boils down to three essential elements: the means, the circumstances, and the ends being sought (Childress 2007). In this chapter, we present some common ethical dilemmas in community practice. Community organizer Saul Alinsky asserted that "the ends justify the means," essentially putting a higher value on what is accomplished than on how it is accomplished (Alinsky 1972; see also chapter 4). This approach, however, presents ethical questions and also risks downplaying core values. With respect to the means, we argue that community determination and participation are critical. The active involvement of people, beginning with what they define as the needs and goals, results in communal ownership of the initiative, the development of competencies, and reduced vulnerability to outside manipulation. Because community involvement and capacity building are primary objectives, this "means" also distinguishes true community organizing from other approaches, such as consultation and outside expert-driven planning. The significant
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Papers by Meredith Minkler