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Adam B. Becker
Researcher at Children's Memorial Hospital
Publications - 37
Citations - 7648
Adam B. Becker is an academic researcher from Children's Memorial Hospital. The author has contributed to research in topics: Public health & Childhood obesity. The author has an hindex of 18, co-authored 34 publications receiving 7024 citations. Previous affiliations of Adam B. Becker include New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene & Northwestern University.
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Review of community-based research: assessing partnership approaches to improve public health.
TL;DR: This review provides a synthesis of key principles of community- based research, examines its place within the context of different scientific paradigms, discusses rationales for its use, and explores major challenges and facilitating factors and their implications for conducting effective community-based research aimed at improving the public's health.
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Community-based participatory research: policy recommendations for promoting a partnership approach in health research.
TL;DR: Key principles of community-based participatory research (CBPR) are presented, the rationale for its use is discussed, and a number of policy recommendations at the organizational, community and national levels aimed at advancing the application of CBPR are provided.
Critical issues in developing and following community based participatory research principles
Barbara A. Israel,Amy J. Schulz,Edith A. Parker,Adam B. Becker,Alex Allen,Guzman,K. A. I. G. Schulz,E Parker,A Lübke-Becker,A Allen-Chabot,J Guzman,A Dion-Schultz +11 more
TL;DR: CBPR as discussed by the authors facilitates collaborative, equitable partnerships in all phases of the research, and emphasizes local relevance of public health problems and ecological perspectives that recognize and attend to the multiple determinants of health and disease.
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Unfair treatment, neighborhood effects, and mental health in the Detroit metropolitan area.
Amy J. Schulz,David R. Williams,Barbara A. Israel,Adam B. Becker,Edith A. Parker,Sherman A. James,James S. Jackson +6 more
TL;DR: Findings contribute to a growing body of evidence that "race" effects operate through multiple pathways that include race-based residential segregation and its attendant economic disinvestment at the community level, and interpersonal experiences of unfair treatment.
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Social inequalities, stressors and self reported health status among African American and white women in the Detroit metropolitan area.
Amy J. Schulz,Barbara A. Israel,David R. Williams,Edith A. Parker,Adam B. Becker,Sherman A. James +5 more
TL;DR: It is suggested that differences in socioeconomic status, exposure to unfair treatment or discrimination and experiences of acute life events make significant contributions to racial differences in women's health status.