Community- Based Health Research: Issues and Methods - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0826120253 ISBN 13: 9780826120250

Publisher: Springer Publishing Company, 2003

Synopsis

This book identifies key concepts of successful community-based research beyond the aspect of location, including prevention focus, population-centered partnerships, multidisciplinary cooperation, and cultural competency. Lessons from the Tuskegee Syphilis Study and case studies on HIV/AIDS prevention and cardiovascular risk reduction illustrate the application of research methods with both positive and negative outcomes.

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About the Author:

Dr. Daniel S. Blumenthal is principal investigator for the Prevention Research Center at Morehouse School of Medicine. He is professor and chair of the school's Department of Community Health and Preventive Medicine and associate dean for Community Programs. He is a graduate of Oberlin College and the University of Chicago School of Medicine. He completed his residency in pediatrics at Charity Hospital of New Orleans (Tulane Division) and received his master of public health degree from Emory University. He is board certified in both pediatrics and preventive medicine.

Dr. Ralph J. DiClemente is the Charles Howard Candler Professor of Public Health and associate director, Emory Center for AIDS Research. He holds concurrent appointments as professor in the School of Medicine, Department of Pediatrics, Division of Infectious Diseases, Epidemiology, and Immunology; and the Department of Psychiatry. He was most recently chair, Department of Behavioral Sciences and Health Education at the Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University. Dr. DiClemente was trained as a health psychologist at the University of California San Francisco where he received his PhD in 1984 after completing an MSPH in Behavioral Sciences at the Harvard School of Public Health and his undergraduate degree at the City University of New York. Dr. DiClemente has published extensively in the area of HIV/STD prevention, particularly among adolescents and young adults. He has authored more than 200 articles, chapters and books.

Review:

"The editors of this book bring together in one place a description both of epidemiological methods and a discussion of community-level issues. It is a volume that will prove useful to those who wish to conduct contemporary community-based research."
--from the Foreword by David Satcher, MD, PhD

About this edition

• Publisher: Springer Publishing Company
• Publication date: 2003
• ISBN 10: 0826120253
• ISBN 13: 9780826120250
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 240
• Editor: Blumenthal MD MPH Daniel S., DiClemente PhD Ralph J.