Roe K M, Minkler M, Saunders F F
Community Health Education, San Jose State University, CA 95129, USA.
Health Educ Q. 1995 Nov;22(4):458-75. doi: 10.1177/109019819502200404.
This article presents a case study of the effective synergy of health education inquiry, community collaboration, and policy advocacy. Using the Grandparent Caregiver Study as the example, the authors focus on key methodological decisions that enabled them to incorporate research, education, and advocacy activities into an ever-growing project on a modest budget. The study itself centered on two in-depth interviews with each of 71 African American grandmothers raising young grandchildren due to the crack cocaine epidemic in Oakland, California. The case study demonstrates ways in which health education research can increase the efficacy of individuals and disenfranchised groups to define problems, voice their concerns, and advocate for more just and healthy public policies. Through discussion of the authors' methods and activities, they suggest strategies through which research participants, service providers, and policymakers can work together to bring a new issue to the policy arena through a collaborative and empowering research process.
本文介绍了一个关于健康教育探究、社区合作和政策倡导有效协同作用的案例研究。作者以“祖父母照顾者研究”为例，重点阐述了关键的方法决策，这些决策使他们能够在预算有限的情况下，将研究、教育和倡导活动纳入一个不断发展的项目中。该研究本身聚焦于对71位因加利福尼亚州奥克兰市快克可卡因泛滥而抚养年幼孙辈的非裔美国祖母每人进行两次深度访谈。该案例研究展示了健康教育研究可以提高个人和弱势群体界定问题、表达关切以及倡导更公正和健康公共政策的效力的方式。通过对作者的方法和活动的讨论，他们提出了一些策略，研究参与者、服务提供者和政策制定者可以通过这些策略，通过协作和赋能性的研究过程，共同将一个新问题带入政策领域。
