Background Racial and ethnic disparities in health status are pervasive at all stages of the
life cycle. One approach to reducing health disparities involves mobilizing community …

Community-based participatory research (CBPR) has been widely used in public health
research in the last decade as an approach to develop culturally centered interventions and …

▪ Abstract This review provides a synthesis of published public health and social science
literature to determine how process evaluation has been used to examine community …

308 FRANCES D. BUTTERFOSS AND MICHELLE C. KEGLER and lead-contamination,
have rallied to highlight their issue or enable favorable policy and legislation. Civic and faith …

The past quarter century has seen an explosion of concern about widening health inequities
in the United States and worldwide. These inequities are central to the research mission in 2 …

Background Community coalitions are rooted in complex and dynamic community systems.
Despite recognition that environmental factors affect coalition behavior, few studies have …

Objectives. We assessed policy and system changes and health outcomes produced by the
Allies Against Asthma program, a 5-year collaborative effort by 7 community coalitions to …

The Community Coalition Action Theory (CCAT) blends practice wisdom with empirical data
to explain how community coalitions achieve community change and community capacity …

The development of community coalitions has escalated rapidly over the past thirty years.
Thousands of coalitions anchored by government or communitybased organizations have …

Background: In the United States, Black and Latino children with asthma are more likely than
White children with asthma to require emergency department visits or hospitalizations …