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July 2009, Vol 99, No. 7 | American Journal of Public Health 1163-1165
© 2009 American Public Health Association
DOI: 10.2105/AJPH.2008.142794

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Patnè en Aksyon: Addressing Cancer Disparities in Little Haiti Through Research and Social Action

Erin Kobetz, PhD, MPH, Janelle Menard, PhD, MPH, Betsy Barton, MA, Laurinus Pierre, MD, MPH, Joshua Diem, PhD and Pascale Denize Auguste, RN, BSN

Erin Kobetz is with the Miller School of Medicine and the Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of Miami, Miami, FL. Janelle Menard and Betsy Barton are with the Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of Miami, Miami. Joshua Diem is with the School of Education, University of Miami, Miami. Laurinus Pierre is with the Center for Haitian Studies, Miami. Pascale Denize Auguste is with the Haitian American Association Against Cancer, Miami.

Correspondence: Requests for reprints should be sent to Erin Kobetz, University of Miami Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center, Division of Cancer Prevention and Control (C202), 1120 NW 14th St, CRB Suite #1528, Miami, FL 33136 (e-mail: ekobetz{at}med.miami.edu).

Haitian women living in Miami, Florida, experience an increased risk of developing and dying from cervical cancer compared with women in other racial/ethnic minority and immigrant groups in the area. In response to this disparity, academic investigators from a local university-based cancer center and community leaders from Little Haiti, the predominately Haitian neighborhood in Miami, created Patnè en Aksyon (Partners in Action), a campus-community partnership. We describe the partnership's effort to document the prevalence of lifetime and routine Papanicolau test use using community-based participatory research methods. Community health workers indigenous to the area recruited participants from various community venues throughout Little Haiti and administered informal, brief interviews to assess their screening practices. The results indicate that Haitian women are underscreened and underscore the importance of community involvement in study implementation.






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