Using CBPR for Health Research in American Muslim Mosque Communities

CBPR Variable Matrix: Research for Improved Health in Academic- Community Partnerships

American Muslim Health Disparities: The State of the Medline Literature

Background: While religious beliefs and values influence health behaviors, conventional health disparities research rarely examines health outcomes by religious affiliation particularly within multi-ethnic minority communities. Methods: Using a systematic strategy we searched the Medline literature to identify empiric studies that report on health disparities between American Muslims and nonMus...

Research collaboration in health management research communities

BACKGROUND This study uses scientometrics methodology to reveal the status quo and emerging issues of collaboration in health management. METHODS We searched all the articles with the keyword "health management" in the period 1999-2011 in Web of Knowledge, then 3067 articles were found. Methods such as Social network analysis (SNA), co-authorship, co-word analysis were used in this study. R...

Health ownership in American indigenous communities.

INTRODUCTION Although the Indian Health Service (IHS) has adequately stifled acute infectious diseases that once devastated American Indian and Alaska Native (AIAN) communities, this system of health provision has become obsolete in the face of chronically debilitating illnesses. Presently, AIAN communities suffer disproportionally from chronic diseases that demand adequate, long-term health ma...

Online communities versus offline communities in the Arab/Muslim world

The Internet was introduced in Saudi Arabia1 in late January 1999 after a long period of discussion and consultation within the Saudi authorities. These resulted in a tailored version being made available to the Saudi public. To enable this, a huge filter system was set up in Riyadh in conjunction with an American company. The reason for having such a filter system was that the Saudi authoritie...