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Resources for Researchers

 

Resources for Researchers

Community-based Participatory Research Resources

Community-based participatory research (CBPR) is a collaborative process of research involving researchers and community representatives. It engages community members, employs local knowledge in the understanding of health problems and the design of interventions, and invests community members in the process and products of research. In addition, community members are invested in the dissemination and use of research findings and ultimately in the reduction of health disparities.

Team work with Dr. Riley
  • Community-Campus Partnerships for Health

    • Community-Campus Partnerships for Health (CCPH) is a nonprofit organization that promotes health (broadly defined) through partnerships between communities and higher educational institutions.

  • Developing and Sustaining Community-based Participatory Research Partnerships: A Skill-building Curriculum

    • This site provides an evidence-based curriculum intended as a tool for community-institutional partnerships that are using or planning to use a CBPR approach to improving health.

  • Centers for Disease Control and Prevention: Prevention Research Centers

    • The Prevention Research Centers work as an interdependent network of community, academic, and public health partners to conduct prevention research and promote the wide use of practices proven to promote good health.

  • The Institute for Community Research

    • The ICR is a non-profit research institute to develop research partnerships and conduct applied and action research with communities and organizations in New England and beyond.

  • Detroit Community-Academic Urban Research Center

    • The URC is a collaborative partnership involving the University of Michigan, the Detroit Department of Health and Wellness Promotion, eight community-based organizations, and Henry Ford Health System that seeks to maintain an effective partnership that identifies problems affecting the health of residents on the east, southwest, and northwest sides of the city and promotes and conducts interdisciplinary, community-based participatory research which recognizes, builds upon, and enhances the resources and strengths in the communities involved.

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Health Research Resources

Research examining specimen in microscope

  • NIH - National Institutes of Health

    • NIH, a part of the U.S. Department for Health and Human Services, is the primary federal agency for conducting and supporting medical research. Composed of 27 institutes and centers, the NIH provides leadership and financial support to researchers in every state and around the world.

  • NIDCR - National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research

    • As one of the National Institutes of Health, the NIDCR is the federal government’s lead agency for scientific research in oral, dental, and craniofacial health and disease.

  • NICDCR Health Disparities Research Program

    • The Health Disparities Research Program responds to the growing awareness that despite improvements in some oral health status indicators, the burden of disease is not evenly distributed across all segments of societies. The program supports research that explores the multiple and complex factors that may determine oral and craniofacial health, diseases, and conditions in disadvantaged and underserved populations.

  • Community of Science

    • COS is a leading global resource for hard-to-find information critical to scientific research and other projects across all disciplines.

  • International Association for Dental Research

    • The IADR is a non-profit organization with more than 11,000 members worldwide. Its mission is to advance research and increase knowledge for the improvement of oral health worldwide, to support and represent the oral health research community, and to facilitate the communication and application for research findings.

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Disparities Research Resources

  • NIDCR Health Disparities Research Program

    • The Health Disparities Research Program responds to the growing awareness that despite improvements in some oral health status indicators, the burden of disease is not evenly distributed across all segments of societies.

  • State Oral Health Improvement Plan for Disadvantaged Floridians

    • he Goal of the Florida SOHIP is to advance general health and well being by increasing critical partnerships, coordination and collaboration in efforts to reduce oral health disparities.

  • Healthy People 2010

    • Healthy People 2010 provides a statement of national health objectives designed to identify the most significant preventable threats to health and to establish national goals to reduce these threats.

  • National Center on Minority Health and Health Disparities

    • The National Center on Minority Health and Health Disparities (NCMHD) aims to promote minority health and to lead, coordinate, support, and assess the NIH effort to reduce and ultimately eliminate health disparities.

  • Smoking and Tobacco Use Disparities

    • The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention provides information on the different disparities that exist in smoking and tobacco use.

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Databases

  • NHANES

    • The National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey combines interviews and examinations to provide surveillance data about both adults and children. Sponsored by the National Center for Health Statistics. FREE ACCESS

  • NHIS

    • The National Health Interview Survey is a household interview survey conducted by the National Center for Health Statistics on a wide range of health topics since 1957. FREE ACCESS

  • Florida Cancer Data System

    • FCDS is Florida’s statewide, population-based cancer registry that has been collecting incidence data since 1981. FREE ACCESS

  • PubMed

    • PubMed is a service of the U.S. National Library of Medicinethat includes over 19 million citations from MEDLINE and other life science journals for biomedical articles back to 1948. PubMed includes links to full text articles and other related resources.

  • RePORT Expenditures and Results (RePORTER)

    • RePORTER is the NIH database that replaced CRISP in 2009. It is an up-to-date database with links to PubMed Central, PubMed, and the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office Full Text and Image Database. This tool retains all of the features of CRISP while providing additional query fields, hit lists that can be downloaded to Excel, NIH funding for each project (expenditures), and the publications and patents that have acknowledged support from each project (results). FREE ACCESS

  • SEER

    • The National Cancer Institute’s Surveillance, Epidemiology & End Results collects information on incidence, survival, and prevalence from specific geographic areas representing 26 percent of the U.S. population and compiles reports on all of these plus cancer mortality for the entire U.S. FREE ACCESS

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