A Participatory Action Research Pilot Study Of Urban Health Disparities Using Rapid Assessment Response and Evaluation

Author(s)

David Richard Brown
Agueda Hernández
Gilbert Saint-Jean
Siân Evans
Ida Tafari
Luther G. Brewster
Michel J. Celestin
Carlos Gómez-Estefan
Fernando Regalado
Siri Akal
Barry P. Nierenberg, Nova Southeastern UniversityFollow
Elaine D. Kauschinger
Robert Schwartz
J. Bryan Page

Document Type

Article

Publication Title

American Journal of Public Health

ISSN

0090-0036

Publication Date

1-2008

Abstract

Healthy People 2010 made it a priority to eliminate health disparities. We used a rapid assessment response and evaluation (RARE) to launch a program of participatory action research focused on health disparities in an urban, disadvantaged Black community serviced by a major south Florida health center. We formed partnerships with community members, identified local health disparities, and guided interventions targeting health disparities. We describe the RARE structure used to triangulate data sources and guide intervention plans as well as findings and conclusions drawn from scientific literature and epidemiological, historic, planning, clinical, and ethnographic data. Disenfranchisement and socioeconomic deprivation emerged as the principal determinants of local health disparities and the most appropriate targets for intervention.

DOI

10.2105/AJPH.2006.091363

Volume

98

Issue

1

First Page

28

Last Page

38

NSUWorks Citation

Brown, D. R., Hernández, A., Saint-Jean, G., Evans, S., Tafari, I., Brewster, L. G., Celestin, M. J., Gómez-Estefan, C., Regalado, F., Akal, S., Nierenberg, B. P., Kauschinger, E. D., Schwartz, R., Page, J. B. (2008). A Participatory Action Research Pilot Study Of Urban Health Disparities Using Rapid Assessment Response and Evaluation. American Journal of Public Health, 98(1), 28-38.
Available at: https://nsuworks.nova.edu/cps_facarticles/858