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> On Mar 14, 2016, at 2:05 PM, "Norton, Barbara L. (HSC)" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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> What specific action can bring community input and voices into the study of health and health care improvement?
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> We discovered in pilot testing a few issues with the brainstorming prompt developed in January.  In the past couple weeks, we’ve solicited a number of suggestions and made progressive tweaks to each suggestion.  I took all of those, worked to incorporate the comments and suggestions and then parsed it down to its bare bones. 
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> Here is what I was aiming for:
> ·         Shorter and simpler, but still to the point
> ·         Straight-forward phrasing
> ·         Agnostic about where the burden of responsibility for action lies
> ·         Agnostic about the entity(ies) that conducts research/studies health & health care improvement; in other words, the phrasing is such that it could even refer to clinicians or CBOs who undertake such activity.
> ·         Avoiding use of word: research or researchers
> ·         Avoiding even the slightest suggestion of a “protest” sentiment, as was mentioned about the previously used “making their voices heard”
> ·         Expansive enough to invite a wide variety of ideas
> ·         Specific enough to speak to the purpose of our project
> o   it can be read to suggest both community participation/engagement in research activities AND the sensitivity of the research agenda to community priorities
> o   by using the terms, “community,” and “health and health care improvement,” we keep the focus on the population – including special populations, which resonate with the word “community”— and on general/primary health care
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> I’ve reviewed it with Zsolt, and we want to know from the rest of the team if this is something we all can rally around?  If you see a big problem, please do not hesitate to mention it.  If not, let’s move on this since we want to quickly have Buffalo redo the pilot testing with this (hopefully) final prompt. 
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> Thanks for all your help and participation!
> Barbara
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> Barbara L. Norton, DrPH
> Assistant Professor of Research // Research Division
> Department of Family and Preventive Medicine // University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center
> 900 NE 10th St  Room 2209 // Oklahoma City OK 73104
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