Amy J. Schulz

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.

TL;DR: Racial residential segregation disproportionately places African Americans in more-impoverished neighborhoods in Detroit and consequently reduces access to supermarkets, however, supermarkets have opened or remained open close to middle-income neighborhoods that have transitioned from White to African American.

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.

TL;DR: The fundamental conditions and resources for health are peace, shelter, edu cation, food, income, a stable ecosystem, sustainable resources, social justice, and equity.

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.