Community-based Participatory Research Is Needed to Address Pulmonary Health Disparities

Socioeconomic and racial disparities in the outcomes of medical management remain common across pulmonary diseases in the United States and worldwide. Acknowledging this, the American Thoracic Society recently put forth recommendations to advance respiratory health equity. Through engagement of vulnerable communities in search of collaborative solutions to improve health disparities, community-based participatory research embodies concepts essential to the American Thoracic Society mission for respiratory health equity. The purpose of this commentary is to provide an overview of the principles of community-based participatory research and the application of this approach to addressing inequity in the outcomes of treatment for lung disease. Community-based participatory research aims to decrease health disparities by recognizing the social and ecological paradigms of health care and by partnering community members with academic researchers in all aspects of the research process. Community partners are uniquely poised to offer insight into local culture, circumstances that guide health behaviors, and other challenges to improve their own community's health. Sustainable interventions, either through strengthening existing community assets or through community empowerment and local capacity building throughout the research process, are essential to the success of community-based participatory research. The National Institutes of Health and other funding agencies offer funding opportunities to support specific interventions aimed at engaging community members in the research process. In pulmonary medicine, community-based initiatives have focused primarily on improving pediatric asthma outcomes. Using a community-based approach in adult asthma and other pulmonary diseases could be an ideal manner in which to decrease pulmonary health disparities.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2016

Erschienen:

2016

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:13

Enthalten in:

Annals of the American Thoracic Society - 13(2016), 8 vom: 01. Aug., Seite 1231-8

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Harris, Drew A [VerfasserIn]
Pensa, Mellisa A [VerfasserIn]
Redlich, Carrie A [VerfasserIn]
Pisani, Margaret A [VerfasserIn]
Rosenthal, Marjorie S [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

Community engagement
Community-based participatory research
Health disparities
Journal Article
Review
Social determinants of health

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Date Completed 10.01.2018

Date Revised 14.09.2018

published: Print

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1513/AnnalsATS.201601-054PS

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM260952346