Measuring the success of community science: the northern California Household Exposure Study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Environmental health research involving community participation has increased substantially since the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) environmental justice and community-based participatory research (CBPR) partnerships began in the mid-1990s. The goals of these partnerships are to inform and empower better decisions about exposures, foster trust, and generate scientific knowledge to reduce environmental health disparities in low-income, minority communities. Peer-reviewed publication and clinical health outcomes alone are inadequate criteria to judge the success of projects in meeting these goals; therefore, new strategies for evaluating success are needed.

Objectives

We reviewed the methods used to evaluate our project, "Linking Breast

SUBMITTER: Brown P 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3295345 | biostudies-literature | 2012 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature