ENGAGING COMMUNITY
U.S. Latina/o Community Engagement and Health



Lilian Milanes

Collaborating through PAR

• Collaboration & Community
• Paulo Freire Pedagogy of the Oprressed
• Key tenants

PAR within Medical Anthropology

• Participatory Engagement
• Collation
• Community-Based Participatory Research
• Community + Knowledge

Hispanic Health Council

• Family structure blame in health seeking behavior
• Puerto Rican (PR) utilization of health care
• Institutional interveners & dealing with crises
• PR sterilization rates
• Institutional openings & training

Beyond PAR

• Issues
• New directions
• Activism

Conclusions

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