Exam 12: Improving Health Through Community Engagement, Community Organization, and Community Building

The use of data, rational-empirical problem solving, and participatory planning and policy development describes:

The Chinatown immigrant restaurant worker study in San Francisco was developed and implemented by the University of California without community collaboration.

Due to histories of manipulation and disrespect, some communities may be distrustful of academic research.

Enabling community members to contribute their gifts is the focus of:

Standard evaluation approaches, which often focus on distal indicators, are challenging to apply to community engagement contexts.

The community building approaches places the ____________, rather than the ____________ at the center of practice.

In Indian Country, _______________ tools have successfully been used to connect communities that are geographically dispersed and isolated.

The use of pressure tactics, including confrontation, to help bring about changes resulting from power imbalances is called social advocacy.

Involving communities in all stages of engagement and a long-term commitment are principles of participation and relevance.

Strengths-based approaches for community organizing focus on:

Community organizing does not focus on social or economic inequities because they are too politically charged.

Qualitative techniques are not appropriate for evaluating community-based participatory research.

Community engagement is only effective when communities are defined geographically and not defined by shared characteristics.

The Bronx Health REACH partnership is a faith-based initiative that incorporated a capacity-building component with faith-based leaders across multiple organizations.

The Chinatown immigrant restaurant workers study is an example of a(n):

Challenges to implementing community engagement projects may include:

Co-learning, cyclical processes, knowledge and action integration, and collaborative mentorship are principles of:

Bidirectional learning, a combination of scientific knowledge with community expertise, and equal involvement throughout the research process, is emphasized in:

Describe the principles of community-based participatory research (CBPR). Explain how the Chinatown immigrant restaurant workers study incorporated principles of CBPR.

What challenges are associated with performing measurement and evaluation of community engagement projects? What type of data collection strategies may be most useful in overcoming these challenges? Support your answer with examples.