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Community-Based Participatory Research: A Promising Approach to Address Social Determinants of Health

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Social determinants of health are understood to be largely responsible for health inequities worldwide – between and within regions, countries, cities, towns, neighborhoods, and communities. Actions on social determinants of health for health equity should take a multipronged approach with a significant emphasis on multilateral, intersectoral collaboration and community engagement. While we are in dire need for making immediate collaborative efforts at health systems and public policy levels to eliminate the health equity gap caused by social determinants of health, community-based participatory research (CBPR) is recognized internationally as a strategy to address social determinants of health with bottom-up, partnership-building, and capacity-building action approaches. This chapter discusses CBPR as a promising approach to address social determinants of health and issues associated with CBPR applications in Asian contexts.

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  1. Graduate School of Public Health, Seoul National University, 599 Gwanak-ro Gwanak-gu, Building 221, Room 318, Seoul, 151-742, Korea

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  1. Department of Public Health, Dokkyo Medical University School of Medicine, 880 Kitakobayashi, Mibu-machi, Shimotsuga-gun, Tochigi, 321-0293, Japan

    Takashi Muto M.D., Ph.D. (Professor) (Professor)

  2. Department of Public Health and International Health, Graduate School of Medicine Kyoto University, Yoshida-Konoe-cho, Sakyo-ku, Kyoto, 606-8501, Japan

    Toshitaka Nakahara M.D., Ph.D., M.P.H. (Professor) (Professor)

  3. Healthy City Research Center Institute of Health and Welfare, Yonsei University, 234 Maeji-ri, Heungup-myun, Wounju-si, Gangwon-do, 220-710, Republic of Korea

    Eun Woo Nam (Professor) (Professor)

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Yoo, S. (2011). Community-Based Participatory Research: A Promising Approach to Address Social Determinants of Health. In: Muto, T., Nakahara, T., Nam, E.W. (eds) Asian Perspectives and Evidence on Health Promotion and Education. Springer, Tokyo. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-4-431-53889-9_11

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