A community-engaged approach to understanding environmental health concerns and solutions in urban and rural communities.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Focus groups and workshops can be used to gain insights into the persistence of and potential solutions for environmental health priorities in underserved areas. The objective of this study was to characterize focus group and workshop outcomes of a community-academic partnership focused on addressing environmental health priorities in an urban and a rural location in Alabama between 2012 and 2019.

Methods

Six focus groups were conducted in 2016 with 60 participants from the City of Birmingham (urban) and 51 participants from Wilcox County (rural), Alabama to discuss solutions for identified environmental health priorities based on previous focus group results in 2012. Recorded focus groups were transcribed and analyzed using the grounded theory approach. Four foll

SUBMITTER: Wang S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8464125 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature