Meredith Minkler
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 220714 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Meredith Minkler |
| PRENOMES | Meredith |
| SOBRENOME | Minkler |
| ASSINATURA | MINKLER M |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of California, Berkeley |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7269-1221 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 82 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 1021 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 80 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 2 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1977 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2023 |
| ÍNDICE H | 15 |
In Memoriam
Critical Reflections on This Historical Moment for Community-engaged and Participatory Research
Critical Reflections on This Historical Moment for Community-engaged and Participatory Research Milton "Mickey" Eder, PhD, Ysabel Duron, Lori Carter-Edwards, MPHPhD, Ella Greene-Moton, Meredith Minkler, DrPH, Leo S. Morales, MDPhD, Keith Norris, MDPhD, and Nina Wallerstein, DrPH Keywords Health Priorities, Health Promotion, Community Health Research, Community-Based Participatory Research, Power Sharing, Community-engaged Research, Participatory …
Practicing Hope
The World Health Organization's (WHO’s) Declaration of Alma Ata in 1978 made Primary Health Care (PHC) the official health policy of all WHO member countries, stressing the importance of multisectoral collaboration and community empowerment as critical for delivering quality primary healthcare and public health services to achieve social justice and health equity. Over forty years later, a divide remains between seeing individual patients in the …
Critical Perspectives on Aging
Seizing the Moment
The mass human and economic casualties wrought by the COVID-19 pandemic laid bare the deep inequities at the base of the disproportionate losses and suffering experienced by diverse U.S. populations. But the urgency and enormity of unmet needs requiring bold policy action also provided a unique opportunity to learn from and partner with community-based organizations that often are at the frontlines of such work. Following a review of Kingdon’s mo…
A Participatory, Mixed Methods Approach to Define and Measure Partnership Synergy in Long‐standing Equity‐focused CBPR Partnerships
Understanding what contributes to success of community-based participatory research (CBPR) partnerships is essential to ensuring their effectiveness in addressing health disparities and health inequities. Synergy, the concept of accomplishing more together than separately, is central to partnership effectiveness. However, synergy specific to long-standing, equity-focused CBPR partnerships has not been closely examined. To address this, we defined…
Introduction to Community Organizing and Community Building
Healthy Retail as a Strategy for Improving Food Security and the Built Environment in San Francisco
In low-income neighborhoods without supermarkets, lack of healthy food access often is exacerbated by the saturation of small corner stores with tobacco and unhealthy foods and beverages. We describe a municipal healthy retail program in San Francisco, California, focusing on the role of a local coalition in program implementation and outcomes in the city’s low income Tenderloin neighborhood. By incentivizing selected corner stores to become heal…
Bringing Healthy Retail to Urban “Food Swamps”
Closing the Loophole
This paper presents in-depth case study of a successful hybrid political and community organizing campaign to ensure equitable access to health care through the perspective of a grassroots San Francisco community-based organization, the Chinese Progressive Association (CPA), which has been organizing low-income Chinese immigrants for over four decades. First, it outlines the Health Care Security Ordinance (HCSO), which, since its passage in 2006,…
A community-engaged infection prevention and control approach to Ebola
The real missing link in Ebola control efforts to date may lie in the failure to apply core principles of health promotion: the early, active and sustained engagement of affected communities, their trusted leaders, networks and lay knowledge, to help inform what local control teams do, and how they may better do it, in partnership with communities. The predominant focus on viral transmission has inadvertently stigmatized and created fear-driven r…
Medical Modernization
The authors seek to conceptualize the assumptions underlying the theoretical models of medical modernization. They note that the implantation of a rational and scientific health care system has often meant simply copying western models. The application of medical modernization models is examined in relation to marginal and disadvantaged groups in the United States as well as developing countries. The authors attempt to identify the general charac…
Labor Unions
Using a social–ecological framework, we drew on a targeted literature review and historical and contemporary cases from the US labor movement to illustrate how unions address physical and psychosocial conditions of work and the underlying inequalities and social determinants of health. We reviewed labor involvement in tobacco cessation, hypertension control, and asthma, limiting articles to those in English published in peer-reviewed public healt…
Health in My Community
hotoVoice is a visual methodology that puts cameras in the hands of
Health in My Community
The PhotoVoice method shows promise for environmental health education and youth development in farmworker communities
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Wage Theft as a Neglected Public Health Problem
Wage theft, or nonpayment of wages to which workers are legally entitled, is a major contributor to low income, which in turn has adverse health effects. We describe a participatory research study of wage theft among immigrant Chinatown restaurant workers. We conducted surveys of 433 workers, and developed and used a health department observational tool in 106 restaurants. Close to 60% of workers reported 1 or more forms of wage theft (e.g., rece…
The Promise of Community-Based Participatory Research for Health Equity
Insufficient attention has been paid to how research can be leveraged to promote health policy or how locality-based research strategies, in particular community-based participatory research (CBPR), influences health policy to eliminate racial and ethnic health inequities. To address this gap, we highlighted the efforts of 2 CBPR partnerships in California to explore how these initiatives made substantial contributions to policymaking for health …
The (Trade, Health, Environment) Impact Project
For decades, goods movement (the transportation of imported goods) in California has had detrimental consequences for the predominantly low income and minority residents living close to the marine ports, rail yards, and connecting highways. Although the California Air Resources Board estimates that goods movement in the state is responsible for an estimated 2,400 premature deaths annually, the impacts of this sector were not widely recognized unt…
The Hispanic Paradox and Older Adults’ Disabilities
The "Hispanic Paradox" suggests that despite rates of poverty similar to African Americans, Hispanics have far better health and mortality outcomes, more comparable to non-Hispanic White Americans. Three prominent possible explanations for the Hispanic Paradox have emerged. The "Healthy Migrant Effect" suggests a health selection effect due to the demands of migration. The Hispanic lifestyle hypothesis focuses on Hispanics' strong social ties and…
Developing and Using a Partnership Covenant to Guide a Study of Late HIV Diagnosis
Although time consuming, development and use of a CBPR covenant can improve high-level engagement and help to accomplish a study's specific aims
Studying and Addressing Urban Immigrant Restaurant Worker Health and Safety in San Francisco’s Chinatown District
Adapting to Context in Community‐Based Participatory Research
Community‐based participatory research (CBPR) is increasingly being used to better understand and improve the health of diverse communities. A key strength of this research orientation is its adaptability to community contexts and characteristics. To date, however, few studies explicitly discuss adaptations made to CBPR principles and processes in response to community context and partners’ needs. Using data from our CBPR study, the San Francisco…
Honoring, Training, and Building a Statewide Network of Elder Activists
This case study explores the first decade (2002–2012) of the California Senior Leaders Program (CSLP), including participants' creation of a formal advocacy group, the California Senior Leaders Alliance. Grounded in concerns with ageism and invisibility, the CSLP provides recognition and support for diverse California elders engaged in community building and social justice work. This study employs qualitative analysis of data from participant int…
Community organizing and community building for health and welfare
"The third edition of Community Organizing and Community Building for Health and Welfare provides new and more established ways to approach community building and organizing, from collaborating with communities on assessment and issue selection to using the power of coalition building, media advocacy, and social media to enhance the effectiveness of such work. With a strong emphasis on cultural relevance and humility, this collection offers a wea…
Ethical Challenges for the "Outside" Researcher in Community-Based Participatory Research
Although community-based participatory research (CBPR) shares many of the core values of health education and related fields, the outside researcher embracing this approach to inquiry frequently is confronted with thorny ethical challenges. Following a brief review of the conceptual and historical roots of CBPR, Kelly's ecological principles for community-based research and Jones's three-tiered framework for understanding racism are introduced as…
Community-Based Research Partnerships
"Self, Society, and the "New Gerontology
The "new gerontology," built on the concept of successful aging, sets forth the preconditions for and the end product of the process of aging successfully. Focused on health and active participation in life, it vests largely within individuals the power to achieve this normatively desirable state. While acknowledging the contributions of the scientific base for Rowe and Kahn's successful aging model, we emphasize the need for a more careful exami…
Engaging Young Adolescents in Social Action Through Photovoice
The Youth Empowerment Strategies (YES!) project is an afterschool empowerment program and research project for underserved early adolescents. Central to YES! is an empowerment intervention that provides early adolescents with opportunities for civic engagement with other youth around issues of shared concern in their schools and neighborhoods. This article specifically focuses on the use of Photovoice as a promising way to engage youth in social …
The health of grandparents raising grandchildren
OBJECTIVES: This study sought to compare the functional and self-rated health of grandparents raising grandchildren with that of noncaregiving grandparents. METHODS: A secondary analysis of data from the 1992 to 1994 National Survey of Families and Households was conducted. Bivariate and logistic analyses compared 173 custodial and 3304 noncustodial grandparents in terms of functional health limitations, self-rated health, and satisfaction with h…
African American Grandparents Raising Grandchildren
African American grandparent caregivers, particularly grandmothers, represent a highly vulnerable population economically. The finding that four-fifths of African American grandmother caregivers below the poverty line were not receiving public assistance underscores the need for improving program outreach and substance to better serve this population. The use of theories of intersectionality and multiracial feminism in future studies of grandpare…
Community-Based Participatory Research
Community-based participatory research (CBPR) increasingly is being recognized by health scholars and funders as a potent approach to collaboratively studying and acting to address health disparities. Emphasizing action as a critical part of the research process, CBPR is particularly consistent with the goals of “resultsoriented philanthropy” and of government funders who have become discouraged by the often modest to disappointing results of mor…
Intergenerational households headed by grandparents
Linking Science and Policy Through Community-Based Participatory Research to Study and Address Health Disparities
With its commitment to balancing research and action, community-based participatory research (CBPR) is well suited to efforts at the intersections of science, practice, and policy to eliminate health disparities. Drawing on a larger study, we use 2 case studies to highlight the role of CBPR in helping achieve policy changes promoting, respectively, access to healthy foods (Bayview, San Francisco, CA) and higher air quality standards (Harlem, New …
The Promise of Community-Based Participatory Research for Health Equity
Insufficient attention has been paid to how research can be leveraged to promote health policy or how locality-based research strategies, in particular community-based participatory research (CBPR), influences health policy to eliminate racial and ethnic health inequities. To address this gap, we highlighted the efforts of 2 CBPR partnerships in California to explore how these initiatives made substantial contributions to policymaking for health …
Promoting Environmental Health Policy Through Community Based Participatory Research
Successful Aging
This article examines the "successful aging" paradigm in gerontology and the problems it poses when applied to the growing population of people who are aging with substantial physical disabilities. We review Rowe and Kahn's (1998) three characteristics of successful aging-low probability of disease and disease-related disability, high cognitive and physical functioning, and active engagement with life-and explore their relevance and limitations w…
American Indian/Alaskan Native Grandparents Raising Grandchildren
This article documents the prevalence and national profile of American Indian/Alaskan Native (AI/AN) grandparents who are raising their grandchildren, based on data from the American Community Survey/Census 2000 Supplementary Survey. In 2000 there were estimated to be nearly 53,000 AI/AN grandparent caregivers age 45 and older in the United States. Almost half of the caregiving grandparents had been raising a grandchild for five years or longer. …
Freire's Message for Social Workers
This paper re-examines key concepts in Paulo Freire's popular education approach and their compatibility with social work philosophy and practice on the group and community levels. Freire's vision of the field of social work is explored, and two case studies are utilized to illustrate the application of this approach and its promise for community practice at the dawn of a new century
Sí Se Puede
Community-based participatory research (CBPR) increasingly is seen as a potent tool for studying and addressing urban environmental health problems by linking place-based work with efforts to help effect policy-level change. This paper explores a successful CBPR and organizing effort, the Toxic Free Neighborhoods Campaign, in Old Town National City (OTNC), CA, United States, and its contributions to both local policy outcomes and changes in the b…
Labor Unions
Using a social–ecological framework, we drew on a targeted literature review and historical and contemporary cases from the US labor movement to illustrate how unions address physical and psychosocial conditions of work and the underlying inequalities and social determinants of health. We reviewed labor involvement in tobacco cessation, hypertension control, and asthma, limiting articles to those in English published in peer-reviewed public healt…
The Ideology of ‘Age/Race Wars’
Efforts in the United States to encourage divisiveness within the working class have been widely recognised as a key strategy in the war on welfare. This paper examines one aspect of this overall strategy, namely the creation of an ideology based on generational equity and ‘age/race wars’ thinking, which blames the old for poverty and economic hardship in the young. Attempts to frame problem analysis and policy deliberations within such an ideolo…
Aging and disability
Research on the Health Effects of Retirement
The contention that retirement may have an adverse effect on health has become increasingly popular with the recent categorization of this phenomenon as a stressful event. The small number of empirical studies examining the health outcomes of retirement, however, appear neither to support nor to refute this hypothesis. Moreover, the serious methodological problems inherent in most of these studies caution against the generalization of findings. T…
Black—White Disparities in Disability Among Older Americans
The greatly elevated risk of disability among Blacks aged 55 to 74 is largely explained by differences in socioeconomic status. Reductions in Black-White health disparities require a better understanding of the mechanisms whereby lower income and education are associated with functional outcomes in older persons
Training Students as Facilitators in the Youth Empowerment Strategies (YES!) Project
This article describes the training of students as facilitators for the Youth Empowerment Strategies (YES!) project designed to promote problem-solving, social action and civic participation among underserved elementary school youth in West Contra Costa County, California. This project involved 160 fifth grade students in after-school activities which identified their capacities and strengths in ways which aimed to decrease rates of alcohol, toba…
Community-Based Participatory Research as a Tool for Policy Change
In 2000, a regional rule governing maximum individual cancer risk from stationary facilities in Southern California was dramatically altered, reducing allowable risk levels by 75%. This article uses a case study approach to explore the role of a community-based participatory research (CBPR) partnership, the Southern California Environmental Justice Collaborative, in producing research and helping spearhead policy advocacy leading to this policy c…
Critical Perspectives on Ageing
Critical gerontology may be seen as evolving along two paths simultaneously, one embracing a broad political economy of ageing framework, and the second emerging from a humanistic orientation. This paper will present and highlight the special contributions of each of these pathways to the understanding of ageing and growing old. Emergent feminist perspectives on ageing, and ‘culturally relevant ways of thinking’ about ageing and diversity will th…
Health in My Community
The PhotoVoice method shows promise for environmental health education and youth development in farmworker communities
Adapting to Context in Community‐Based Participatory Research
Community‐based participatory research (CBPR) is increasingly being used to better understand and improve the health of diverse communities. A key strength of this research orientation is its adaptability to community contexts and characteristics. To date, however, few studies explicitly discuss adaptations made to CBPR principles and processes in response to community context and partners’ needs. Using data from our CBPR study, the San Francisco…
Consultants or Colleagues
An examination of the role of Ford Foundation and USAID advisors to Indias massive Family Planning Programme during 1961-74 reveals conflicts between the population advisors theoretical role as a consultant-communicator and the performance-oriented role into which occupants of that position frequently found themselves thrust. Discrepancies were observed between personal goals and expectations the expectations of host nationals and the directives …
Role Shock
This paper attempts to develop the concept of role shock by describing its theoreticalproperties and exploring its relationship to relevant existing concepts in the social sciences. Role shock is defined as the stresses accompanying either major discrepancies between anticipated and encountered roles or the sudden and significant departure from familiar roles which are "'played differently" in the new setting or replaced altogether by new and unf…
Supportive Networks
Recent studies suggest that the increased vulnerability of the older person to physical and/or mental breakdown is related to loss or deficiency in the pattern of supportive ties. With increases in the geographical separation of adult children from their parents, and with greater longevity, the needs of the elderly are increasingly being transferred from the family either to public service settings or to voluntary associations. The resource needs…
Toward a Continuum of Caring Alternatives
This paper examines the roots and consequences of the “medicalization” of aging in America. The present set of programs under Medicare, Medicaid and Title XX are described, with particular attention given to the unproductive “dichotomy” created between health and medical needs (addressed primarily under Medicare and Medicaid) and the interrelated social needs of the elderly, provided for, albeit inadequately, through Title XX. The present medical…
Research on the Health Effects of Retirement
The contention that retirement may have an adverse effect on health has become increasingly popular with the recent categorization of this phenomenon as a stressful event. The small number of empirical studies examining the health outcomes of retirement, however, appear neither to support nor to refute this hypothesis. Moreover, the serious methodological problems inherent in most of these studies caution against the generalization of findings. T…
The nursing home
Associate Professor of Health Education, School of Public Health, University of California, Berkeley, California
Ten principles for geriatric health promotion
The concept of health promotion for elderly people holds promise for countries faced with limited resources and the unprecedented growth of their elderly populations. This article draws on the work of David Werner and on research in health education, community development, health promotion and gerontological health to discuss ten principles underlying the concept of geriatric health promotion. By stressing empowerment, the strengths and not merel…
Aging and disability
The Ideology of ‘Age/Race Wars’
Efforts in the United States to encourage divisiveness within the working class have been widely recognised as a key strategy in the war on welfare. This paper examines one aspect of this overall strategy, namely the creation of an ideology based on generational equity and ‘age/race wars’ thinking, which blames the old for poverty and economic hardship in the young. Attempts to frame problem analysis and policy deliberations within such an ideolo…
The Physical and Emotional Health of Grandmothers Raising Grandchildren in the Crack Cocaine Epidemic
This article explores the physical and emotional health status of 71 African-American grandmothers raising their grandchildren as a result of the crack cocaine involvement of the children's parents. A comparison of self-assessed health ratings with qualitative responses revealed a tendency for respondents to downplay their own health problems and symptoms.
Critical Perspectives on Aging
This unique volume brings together 20 critical essays on aging within the context of the broad social, political, and economic factors that help shape and determine the realities of growing old. Rather than viewing aging in isolation, it explores the social creation of old age dependency and the profound influence of race, gender, and social class on what it means to grow old. It looks too at such topics as the biomedicalization of aging; the rol…
New Health Promotion Movement
In the last decade, a revolution has been occurring in the field of health promotion. Guided to a large extent by position papers disseminated by the World Health Organization (WHO) Europe Health Promotion Office, and furthered by the Ottawa Charter, the Epp Report in Canada, the Healthy Cities project, as well as by other efforts, this new health promotion movement has introduced new ideas, new language, and new concepts about what constitutes h…
Grandmothers as Caregivers
Foreword - Troy Duster Introduction Social and Cultural Contexts of Caregiving Hearing the Voices, Telling the Stories The Grandparent Caregiver Study Assuming the Caregiver Role The Health Status of Grandmother Caregivers The High Costs of Caring Economic Considerations Social Networks and Social Support Coping with the New Caregiving Combining Work and Childcare The Continuity of Caregiving Raising the Children of the Crack Cocaine Epidemic Spe…
Raising grandchildren from crack-cocaine households
Changes in family and friendship networks of 71 African-American grandmothers raising grandchildren as a consequence of the crack-cocaine epidemic are examined. Despite continued strong social ties, many of the women reported decreased contact with family and friends other than confidantes and a decline in marital satisfaction. Implications of the findings for research, policy, and practice are discussed
The Assumption of Caregiving
In this article, selected findings are presented from a study of the experiences of 71 African American women who have become the sole caregivers for at least one grandchild or great-grandchild as a result of the involvement of the parent in use of crack cocaine. Despite the unique circumstances of each situation, three patterns of the assumption of caregiving emerged from analysis of the intensive interviews and participant observation: sudden a…
Critical Perspectives on Ageing
Critical gerontology may be seen as evolving along two paths simultaneously, one embracing a broad political economy of ageing framework, and the second emerging from a humanistic orientation. This paper will present and highlight the special contributions of each of these pathways to the understanding of ageing and growing old. Emergent feminist perspectives on ageing, and ‘culturally relevant ways of thinking’ about ageing and diversity will th…
Health of Grandmothers Raising Children of the Crack Cocaine Epidemic
OBJECTIVES: Approximately 3.2 million children live with their grandparents or other relatives-a 40% increase in 10 years. This article presents selected findings from an exploratory study of the experience of 71 African-American women raising their grandchildren because of the crack epidemic. METHODS: The study was designed to describe the caregivers' self-reported physical and emotional health status and health-care-related behaviors through a …
Depression in grandparents raising grandchildren
OBJECTIVES: To assess the effect of undertaking custodial care of a grandchild on grandparents' depression levels and to determine what characteristics are associated with higher depression levels among caregiving grandparents. DESIGN: A longitudinal national probability panel study: the National Survey of Families and Households. The first wave of data (n= 13 008) was collected in 1987 and 1988, and the second wave of data (n=10008) was collecte…
A Profile Of Grandparents Raising Grandchildren In The United States
This article examines the prevalence of grandparent caregiving in the U.S. and presents a national profile of grandparent caregivers based on current data from the national Survey of Families and Households. More than one in ten grandparents are found to have cared for a grandchild for at least 6 months, with most of these having engaged in a far longer-term commitment. Although custodial grandparenting cuts across gender, class, and ethnic lines…
Personal Responsibility for Health? A Review of the Arguments and the Evidence at Century’s End
This article examines the continuing controversies regarding personal versus social responsibility for health as they are being played out at the turn of the century. Following a brief examination of the contested meaning of “personal responsibility for health” in recent historical context, attention is focused on the arguments for and against holding the individual to be primarily accountable for his or her health behavior. The paper then makes …
Intergenerational households headed by grandparents
The policy implications of welfare reform for older caregivers, kinship care, and family configuration
The health of grandparents raising grandchildren
OBJECTIVES: This study sought to compare the functional and self-rated health of grandparents raising grandchildren with that of noncaregiving grandparents. METHODS: A secondary analysis of data from the 1992 to 1994 National Survey of Families and Households was conducted. Bivariate and logistic analyses compared 173 custodial and 3304 noncustodial grandparents in terms of functional health limitations, self-rated health, and satisfaction with h…
Assessment/evaluation. Using participatory action research to build healthy communities
The author contends that community-based Participatory Action Research (PAR) is ideally suited for use in Healthy Communities projects. The article begins by defining PAR and its principles and characteristics, then discusses the philosophical and methodological compatibility of PAR and Healthy Communities. After highlighting the challenges of expanding the Healthy Communities accent on participation to include PAR, the article describes the expe…
Freire's Message for Social Workers
This paper re-examines key concepts in Paulo Freire's popular education approach and their compatibility with social work philosophy and practice on the group and community levels. Freire's vision of the field of social work is explored, and two case studies are utilized to illustrate the application of this approach and its promise for community practice at the dawn of a new century
Medicine (57 obras) · Political science (56 obras) · Sociology (52 obras) · Psychology (36 obras) · Public relations (30 obras) · Nursing (28 obras) · Participatory action research (28 obras) · Community-based participatory research (27 obras) · Health Policy Implementation Science (23 obras) · Public health (23 obras)