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Community-Based Participatory Research for Ecohealth

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Community-based participatory research (CBPR) is particularly suitable for conducting ecohealth research. As discussed in the previous chapter, one primary objective of ecohealth research is to create opportunities for all relevant stakeholders to participate in evaluating the environmental health problem at hand, and to gain sufficient insight to implement the appropriate interventions.

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Dakubo, C.Y. (2011). Community-Based Participatory Research for Ecohealth. In: Ecosystems and Human Health. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-0206-1_4

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