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Towards a People's Social Epidemiology: Pursuit of a more inclusive and equitable paradigm for social epi research and practice in the 21st century
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OBJECTIVE: Develop and field-test a framework for A People’s Social Epi(PPLSE) that: 1) explicitly engages the social production of health and SE science; 2) explicitly engages concerns around equity, inclusion, participation, agency, and accountability; 3) affords opportunities for “n’s” to shape research/practice for social action; and 4) builds and institutionalizes local people capacity to do SE for their own social action goals.
APPROACH: A 3-tiered PPLSE framework was developed drawing from existent SE, CBPR/PAR, and ICT literatures. This framework was then applied to an intergenerational CBPR/PAR study of place, embodiment, and health. Parent-child dyads were recruited from public housing and trained in 4 PAR methods: Photovoice, Activity Space Mapping, X-Ray Mapping, Participatory GIS. Participants documented and integrated their place-health findings via a collaborative multimedia-enabled web-based community mapping platform.
RESULTS: Integrating PAR methods via/with ICTs, participants effectively modeled what PPLSE might look like in practice--simultaneously serving as "n's", people, researchers, constituents, and agents. This presentation will introduce a PPLSE framework, discuss its theoretical/conceptual foundations and 5 core components in application, and discuss applications/implications for SE research/practice going forward.
Learning Areas:
Advocacy for health and health educationAssessment of individual and community needs for health education
Epidemiology
Ethics, professional and legal requirements
Public health or related research
Social and behavioral sciences
Learning Objectives:
Describe the relevance and utility of ICTs in enabling a more inclusive and equitable social epidemiology
Demonstrate knowledge of how to integrate ICTs and CBPR/PAR processes to foster a more democratic social epidemiology in practice and research
Describe a 3-tiered framework for social epi research/practice and differentiate between tiers
List and discuss the 5 core components of A People's Social Epi, and describe how it can enhance the relevance and actionability of social epi in the 21st Century
Keyword(s): Participatory Research, Social Justice
Qualified on the content I am responsible for because: My research focuses on integrating social epidemiology, CBPR/PAR, and ICTs for the local and actionable study of place and health. I developed and am the PI on the research project to be presented. I have extensive knowledge, training, and experience in applied social epidemiology and CBPR/PAR, as well as all methods used in this project (e.g. photovoice, participatory GIS).
Any relevant financial relationships? No
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.