HIV/AIDS, beersellers and critical community health psychology in Cambodia: A case study

This case study illustrates a participatory framework for confronting critical community health issues using ‘grass-roots’ research-guided community-defined interventions. Ongoing work in Cambodia has culturally adapted research, theory and practice for particular, local health-promotion responses t...

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Published in:Journal of health psychology 2014-01, Vol.19 (1), p.110-116
Main Authors: Lubek, Ian, Lee, Helen, Kros, Sarath, Wong, Mee Lian, Van Merode, Tiny, Liu, James, McCreanor, Tim, Idema, Roel, Campbell, Catherine
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Acquired immune deficiency syndrome
Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome - psychology
AIDS
Alcoholism
Cambodia
Community health
Community Participation - methods
Empowerment
Health care
Health promotion
Health Promotion - methods
Health Promotion - standards
Health psychology
HIV
Human immunodeficiency virus
Humans
Medical research
Morbidity-Mortality
Power (Psychology)
Residence Characteristics
Trauma
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Summary:This case study illustrates a participatory framework for confronting critical community health issues using ‘grass-roots’ research-guided community-defined interventions. Ongoing work in Cambodia has culturally adapted research, theory and practice for particular, local health-promotion responses to HIV/AIDS, alcohol abuse and other challenges in the community of Siem Reap. For resource-poor communities in Cambodia, we recycle such ‘older’ concepts as ‘empowerment’ and ‘action research’. We re-imagine community health psychology, when confronted with ‘critical’, life-and-death issues, as adjusting its research and practices to local, particular ontological and epistemological urgencies of trauma, morbidity and mortality.
ISSN:1359-1053
1461-7277
DOI:10.1177/1359105313500253