158500 CEHC: An Anthropologically Informed Community Based Participatory Research (CBPR) System

Monday, November 5, 2007: 9:15 AM

Tony L. Whitehead, PhD, MsHyg , Anthropology, University of Maryland College Park, College Park, MD
  
This paper introduces some of the challenges of CBPR experienced by the author during his 35 year career as a community health anthropologist that gave rise to the Community Ecology of Health and Change (the CEHC). The paper briefly presents the four systems of the CEHC used to promote CBPR in community assessment research, and project design, implementation, and evaluation. The paper demonstrates how theories of culture and the multi-method approaches of ethnography are used to inform the four CEHC systems titled: (1) Ethnographically Informed Community and Cultural Research Systems (the CEHC); (2) Culturally Informed Project Design and Implementation Planning (the PDIP); (3) Culturally Informed Project Implementation Programs (PIPs); and (4) and Ethnographic Assessment and Evaluation Systems (EAES).

Learning Objectives:
1. To share with audience CBPR lessons learned from working with several community based intitiatives over a long career. 2. To introduce audiences to a new comprehensive model in carrying out CBPR that includes community and cultural assessment research, and project planning, implementation, and evaluation. 2. To introduce audience to a CBPR model that is informed by anthropological and cultural theories, and multi-method approaches to ethnography.

Keywords: Community Health Assessment, Evaluation

Presenting author's disclosure statement:

Any relevant financial relationships? No
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I agree to comply with the American Public Health Association Conflict of Interest and Commercial Support Guidelines, and to disclose to the participants any off-label or experimental uses of a commercial product or service discussed in my presentation.

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