R Cruz Begay
Biographic Data
| ID | 378587 |
|---|---|
| NAME | R Cruz Begay |
| GIVEN NAMES | R Cruz |
| FAMILY NAME | Begay |
| SIGNATURE | BEGAY R C |
| AFFILIATIONS | Northern Arizona University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 5 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 6 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2003 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Building a Narrative of Equity: Weaving Indigenous Approaches into Community-Engaged Research
In 2020, global injustice has taken center stage during the uprising of the Black Lives Matter movement and other social movements. Activists are calling attention to longstanding disparities in health outcomes and an urgent need for justice. Given the global socio-political moment, how can health researchers draw on current critical theory and social movements to create structures for equitable outcomes in health research and practice? Here, we …
Hiring the experts: Best Practices for Community-Engaged Research
Community-engaged approaches to research and practice continue to show success in addressing health equity and making long-term change for partnership relationships and structures of power. The usefulness of these approaches is either diminished or bolstered by community trust, which can be challenging for partnerships to achieve. In this research note we present an example process for recruiting, interviewing, and hiring community researchers as…
Study Design of the Maycoba Project: Obesity and Diabetes in Mexican Pimas
This study may yield important information on T2D and obesity etiology in a traditional population exposed to environmental changes
A Women's Shelter in a Rural American Indian Community
The author presents a case study and personal story about a group of community members initiating a women's shelter in a rural American Indian reservation community. Problems are identified and their resolutions described in organizing a community group, encountering community resistance, locating the shelter, raising funds, and developing procedures for operating the shelter. Lessons learned by the group are provided to illustrate possible solut…
Changes in Childbirth Knowledge
Previous to 1940 fewer than to percent of women living in the western Navajo reservation gave birth in a hospital, but by 1970 the percentage of hospital births was nearly 1oo percent (Kunitz 1976, 16). Leighton and Kluckholn stated in 1948, Today an increasing number of Navajo women go to the Indian Service hospitals for delivery, but they still form a trifling portion of the total (Leighton and Kluckholn 1948, 15). The greatest shift toward hos…
Science and Spirituality
Although several articles in the October 2002 issue on Complementary and Alternative Medicine reflect the interest in spirituality that exists in the field, they appear unable to discuss it directly. One of the reasons for this may be that scientific medicine has its roots in a rift from spirituality. Before Western medical practice and research began to involve what was considered to be an unnatural curiosity about the human body, medicine was i…
Hiring the experts: Best Practices for Community-Engaged Research
Community-engaged approaches to research and practice continue to show success in addressing health equity and making long-term change for partnership relationships and structures of power. The usefulness of these approaches is either diminished or bolstered by community trust, which can be challenging for partnerships to achieve. In this research note we present an example process for recruiting, interviewing, and hiring community researchers as…
Changes in Childbirth Knowledge
Previous to 1940 fewer than to percent of women living in the western Navajo reservation gave birth in a hospital, but by 1970 the percentage of hospital births was nearly 1oo percent (Kunitz 1976, 16). Leighton and Kluckholn stated in 1948, Today an increasing number of Navajo women go to the Indian Service hospitals for delivery, but they still form a trifling portion of the total (Leighton and Kluckholn 1948, 15). The greatest shift toward hos…
Science and Spirituality
Although several articles in the October 2002 issue on Complementary and Alternative Medicine reflect the interest in spirituality that exists in the field, they appear unable to discuss it directly. One of the reasons for this may be that scientific medicine has its roots in a rift from spirituality. Before Western medical practice and research began to involve what was considered to be an unnatural curiosity about the human body, medicine was i…
Changes in Childbirth Knowledge
Previous to 1940 fewer than to percent of women living in the western Navajo reservation gave birth in a hospital, but by 1970 the percentage of hospital births was nearly 1oo percent (Kunitz 1976, 16). Leighton and Kluckholn stated in 1948, Today an increasing number of Navajo women go to the Indian Service hospitals for delivery, but they still form a trifling portion of the total (Leighton and Kluckholn 1948, 15). The greatest shift toward hos…
A Women's Shelter in a Rural American Indian Community
The author presents a case study and personal story about a group of community members initiating a women's shelter in a rural American Indian reservation community. Problems are identified and their resolutions described in organizing a community group, encountering community resistance, locating the shelter, raising funds, and developing procedures for operating the shelter. Lessons learned by the group are provided to illustrate possible solut…
Study Design of the Maycoba Project: Obesity and Diabetes in Mexican Pimas
This study may yield important information on T2D and obesity etiology in a traditional population exposed to environmental changes
Hiring the experts: Best Practices for Community-Engaged Research
Community-engaged approaches to research and practice continue to show success in addressing health equity and making long-term change for partnership relationships and structures of power. The usefulness of these approaches is either diminished or bolstered by community trust, which can be challenging for partnerships to achieve. In this research note we present an example process for recruiting, interviewing, and hiring community researchers as…
Building a Narrative of Equity: Weaving Indigenous Approaches into Community-Engaged Research
In 2020, global injustice has taken center stage during the uprising of the Black Lives Matter movement and other social movements. Activists are calling attention to longstanding disparities in health outcomes and an urgent need for justice. Given the global socio-political moment, how can health researchers draw on current critical theory and social movements to create structures for equitable outcomes in health research and practice? Here, we …
Sociology (6 works) · Political science (5 works) · Law (3 works) · Medicine (3 works) · Community Health and Development (2 works) · Community-based participatory research (2 works) · Demography (2 works) · Demography (2 works) · Engineering (2 works) · Health care (2 works)