Enhancing participatory research with the community oriented primary care model: A case study in community mobilization

Refining Participatory Research with the methodology of Community Oriented Primary Care (COPC), sociologists, medical providers and other “professionals” were able to assist the people of a small, rural county in western Appalachian North Carolina create a “community health consortium.” The consortium grew out of a research process funded by the W.K. Kellogg Foundation, which included some 40 interviews with community groups that articulated health problems and barriers to health care. The consortium then undertook action projects, which in turn enhanced networking between community groups and agencies while reducing mistrust between them. The consortium empowered people to articulate their realities, needs and became a force for change able to make demands on political office holders and decision makers. Despite its democratic origins and ideology, the consortium needs to do more to extend its outreach to include the marginal and disenfranchised.     

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A note on the asymptotic variance of the gray and williams measure of partial association

The correct asymptotic variancef or the partial association analog of Goodman and Kruskal's T measure of associati o n based on proportional prediction is derived for both full multinomial sampling and product multinomial sampling. These results are illustrated within the context of an example data set.