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Intro -- Frontmatter -- Contents -- 1 Community Engagement in the Study of Resilience -- 2 The Black Girls Advocacy and Leadership Alliance: Community-Based Participatory Research (CBPR) to Advance Equity and Collective Resilience for Black Girls -- 3 Insights from Project Youth MIND: Building a Virtual Youth Community during a Health and Racial Pandemic -- 4 Shifting the Lens from Traditional Medical Research to Fostering Community Resilience -- 5 The Resilience Dilemma -- 6 The Gift of Resilience Among Youths from Oakland -- 7 Promoting Resilience Through Community-Engaged Research with a Community-Based Clinician -- 8 Researching Resilience: Collaboration and Critique Through Community Engagement -- Bios -- Index.

In October 1979 the first university-based mediation service in the United States was born in the political science department of the University of Hawaii. Student and faculty volunteers developed an administrative system in facilities donated by the university. Mediation trainers were brought in to train the first 18 mediators who represented a cross section of the community. Student and faculty volunteers conducted outreach to citizen groups and agencies, the arranging and staffing of mediations, the collection of case materials and records, and the training of new mediators. This paper reports on the outcomes of the first nine months of the project's operation. Note: This working paper was originally published in 1982 by the Institute for the Study of Social Change, now the Institute for the Study of Societal Issues.

The success of community-directed treatment with Ivermectin (CDTI) depends on active community participation. We conducted a case study nested in a cross-sectional study in the Binza Ozone Health Zone (ZS) in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo, in order to investigate community's knowledges and perceptions of onchocerciasis and on all CDTI's aspects. We interviewed 106 people aged 20 and over, purposively selected, through eight individual interviews and 12 focus groups. Themes used for collecting data were drawn for the Health Belief Model and data were analyzed using a deductive thematic approach. The term onchocerciasis was unknown to participants who called it "Mbitiri", the little black fly, in their local language. This disease is seen as curse put on the sufferer by a witch and perceived as a threat because of the "Mbitiri" bites. The afflicted participants were reluctant to seek treatment and preferred traditional practitioners or healers. CDTI is considered devastating because of adverse effects of ivermectin as well as inefficient after occurrence of deaths. This explains the low level of community adhesion and participation to this strategy. Recruitment procedures for community distributors are poorly understood and awareness and health education campaigns are either non-existent or rarely carried out. Nevertheless, the latter should be regularly done. ; SCOPUS: ar.j ; info:eu-repo/semantics/published

Community pharmacies are balancing between business (selling medicines and other products) and healthcare (using the pharmacists' knowledge in order to improve drug utilization). This balance could be affected by regulations decided upon by politicians, but also influenced by others. The aim of this study was to explore important stakeholders' views on community pharmacy and community pharmacists in Sweden. The method used was that of semi-structured qualitative interviews. Political, professional, and patient organization representatives were interviewed. The results show that informants who are pharmacists or representatives of a professional pharmacist organization generally have a healthcare-centered view on community pharmacy/pharmacists. However, different views on how this orientation should be performed were revealed, ranging from being specialists to dealing with uncomplicated tasks. Political organization representatives generally had a more business-oriented view, where competition in the market was believed to be the main driving force for development. A third dimension in which competition was not stressed also emerged; that community pharmacies should primarily distribute medicines. This dimension was most prevalent among the political and patient organization representatives. One conclusion to be drawn is that no stakeholder seemed to have a clear vision or was willing to take the lead for the development of the community pharmacy sector.