Research Catalog

Title

Participatory research in health : issues and experiences / edited by Korrie de Koning and Marion Martin.

Publication

London ; Atlantic Highlands, N.J. : Zed Books ; Johannesburg : NPPHCN, 1996.

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Additional Authors

• Koning, Korrie de, 1950-
• Martin, Marion, 1948-

Description

xii, 242 pages : illustrations, maps; 23 cm

Summary

• Participatory research has in recent years gained considerable importance both as a research strategy and as an educational process. This volume breaks new ground by presenting the experience and reflections of academics and practitioners, both from North and South, who are using this approach in the field of health.
• Contributors place PR in its historical and theoretical context. They examine issues of training and practice, drawing on experiences from Africa, Asia and Latin America, as well as the USA, Britain and Europe. The case studies make clear the complexities and contradictions, as well as common experiences, which practitioners confront in diverse social, economic and political contexts.
• Questions of equity in terms of gender, race and class come to the fore, as do insights into the qualities, skills and attitudes required of practitioners.

Subject

• Public health > Citizen participation
• Public health > Social aspects
• Public health > Fieldwork
• Public health > Citizen participation > Case studies
• Health Services Research
• Community Participation

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

• 1. Participatory research in health: setting the context / Korrie de Koning and Marion Martin -- 2. The historical roots and contemporary tendencies in participatory research: implications for health care / Rajesh Tandon -- 3. Proposing a more feminist participatory research: knowing and being embraced openly / Patricia Maguire -- 4. Critical awareness in participatory research: an approach towards teaching and learning / Ineke Meulenberg-Buskens -- 5. Training issues for the use of participatory research methods in health / Elizabeth E. Tolley and Margaret E. Bentley -- 6. Participatory action research (PAR) in women's health: SARTHI, India / Renu Khanna -- 7. Participatory research processes and empowerment: the PACODET community, Uganda / Stanley Okurut, Amos Odong, James Imalingat, Anne Okurut, Lawrence Oloit and Filder Oloit -- 8. Issues of power in the participatory research process / Marion Martin --
• 9. Towards participatory practice: participatory rural appraisal (PRA) and the participatory process / Andrea Cornwall -- 10. Participation and action: reflections on community-based AIDS intervention in South Africa / Eleonor Preston-Whyte and Lynn Dalrymple -- 11. Methodological issues in the ethnographic study of sexuality: experiences from Bombay / Annie George -- 12. An experience in the use of the PRA/RRA approach for health needs assessment in a rural community of northern Gujarat, India / SEWA-Rural Team -- 13. Towards a sustainable and participatory rural development: recent experiences of an NGO in Bangladesh / Maurice Bloem, Dulal Biswas and Susanta Adhikari -- 14. 'Planning together': developing community plans to address priority maternal and neonatal health problems in rural Bolivia / Lisa Howard-Grabman -- 15. Rhetoric or reality? Participatory research in the National Health Service, UK / Grindl Dockery -- 16. A Zimbabwean case / Ravai Marindo-Ranganai --
• 17. Participatory community-based health-information systems for rural communities / H. M. Oranga and E. Nordberg -- 18. Using participatory research to enhance health in the work setting: an Australian experience / Jan E. Ritchie -- 19. Experiences and issues in institutionalizing qualitative and participatory research approaches in a government health programme / D. V. Mavalankar, J. K. Satia and Bharati Sharma -- 20. Introducing participatory research to university and government health systems: some experiences from India / Shubhada J. Kanani.

ISBN

• 1856493512
• 1856493520 (pbk.)

LCCN

95041659

OCLC

• 33281378
• ocm33281378

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries