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Edith A. Parker is a researcher affiliated with the University of Iowa in the United States. Their scholarly work primarily spans the fields of Medicine and Health Professions, with a focus on Emergency Medicine, General Health Professions, Epidemiology, Emergency Medical Services, and Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health.

The researcher has contributed to various topics, including Emergency and Acute Care Studies, Sepsis Diagnosis and Treatment, Trauma and Emergency Care Studies, Health Policy Implementation Science, Public Health Policies and Education, Global Health Workforce Issues, and Primary Care and Health Outcomes.

Edith A. Parker has frequently published in notable venues such as bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), American Journal of Community Psychology, Annual Review of Public Health, Annals of Emergency Medicine, and American Journal of Public Health.

Their recent papers include the following:

  • Reimagining Rural: Shifting Paradigms About Health and Well-Being in the Rural United States, 2021, Annual Review of Public Health
  • Implementing Community-Based Participatory Research with Communities Affected by Humanitarian Crises: The Potential to Recalibrate Equity and Power in Vulnerable Contexts, 2020, American Journal of Community Psychology
  • Building Leadership, Capacity, and Power to Advance Health Equity and Justice through Community-Engaged Research in the Midwest, 2020, American Journal of Community Psychology
  • Health Equity in Midsize Rural Communities: Challenges and Opportunities in a Changing Rural America, 2020, American Journal of Public Health
  • Outcomes Associated With Rural Emergency Department Provider-to-Provider Telehealth for Sepsis Care: A Multicenter Cohort Study, 2022, Annals of Emergency Medicine

The researcher has collaborated extensively with multiple coauthors, including Nicholas M. Mohr, Brian M. Fuller, Brett Faine, Luke Mack, and Amanda Bell.

Among their book publications, Edith A. Parker has contributed to a work published by Rutgers University Press titled "Community Organizing and Community Building for Health and Social Equity, 4th edition," released in 2022.

Best Publications

  • Review of community-based research: assessing partnership approaches to improve public health.

    Barbara A. Israel;Amy J. Schulz;Edith A. Parker;Adam B. Becker

  • Identifying and Defining the Dimensions of Community Capacity to Provide a Basis for Measurement

    Robert M. Goodman;Marjorie A. Speers;Kenneth Mcleroy;Stephen Fawcett

  • Community-based participatory research: policy recommendations for promoting a partnership approach in health research.

    Barbara A. Israel;Amy J. Schulz;Edith A. Parker;Adam B. Becker

  • Critical issues in developing and following community based participatory research principles

    BA Israel;AJ Schulz;EA Parker;AB Becker

  • Community-based participatory research: lessons learned from the Centers for Children's Environmental Health and Disease Prevention Research.

    Barbara A. Israel;Edith A. Parker;Zachary Rowe;Alicia Salvatore

  • A Typology of Youth Participation and Empowerment for Child and Adolescent Health Promotion

    Naima T. Wong;Marc A. Zimmerman;Edith A. Parker

  • Unfair treatment, neighborhood effects, and mental health in the Detroit metropolitan area.

    Amy Schulz;David Williams;Barbara Israel;Adam Becker

  • Measuring Community Competence in the Mississippi Delta: The Interface between Program Evaluation and Empowerment:

    Eugenia Eng;Edith Parker

  • Lay Health Advisor Intervention Strategies: A Continuum from Natural Helping to Paraprofessional Helping

    Eugenia Eng;Edith Parker;Christina Harlan

  • Social inequalities, stressors and self reported health status among African American and white women in the Detroit metropolitan area.

    A Schulz;B Israel;D Williams;E Parker

  • Religious Involvement, Social Support, and Health Among African-American Women on the East Side of Detroit

    Juliana Van Olphen;Amy Schulz;Barbara Israel;Linda Chatters

  • Climate change and health: indoor heat exposure in vulnerable populations.

    Jalonne L. White-Newsome;Brisa N. Sánchez;Olivier Jolliet;Zhenzhen Zhang

  • Psychosocial stress and social support as mediators of relationships between income, length of residence and depressive symptoms among African American women on Detroit's eastside.

    Amy J. Schulz;Barbara A. Israel;Shannon N. Zenk;Edith A. Parker

  • Staying cool in a changing climate: Reaching vulnerable populations during heat events

    Natalie R. Sampson;Carina J. Gronlund;Miatta A. Buxton;Linda Catalano

  • Air Pollution–Associated Changes in Lung Function among Asthmatic Children in Detroit

    Toby C. Lewis;Thomas G. Robins;J. Timothy Dvonch;Gerald J. Keeler

  • Evaluation of Community Action Against Asthma: A Community Health Worker Intervention to Improve Children's Asthma-Related Health by Reducing Household Environmental Triggers for Asthma

    Edith A. Parker;Barbara A. Israel;Thomas G. Robins;Graciela Mentz

  • Community action against asthma: examining the partnership process of a community-based participatory research project.

    Edith A. Parker;Barbara A. Israel;Melina Williams;Wilma Brakefield-Caldwell

  • Levels and sources of volatile organic compounds in homes of children with asthma

    Jo-Yu Chin;Christopher Godwin;Edith Parker;Thomas Robins

  • Assessment of personal and community-level exposures to particulate matter among children with asthma in Detroit, Michigan, as part of Community Action Against Asthma (CAAA).

    Gerald J Keeler;Timothy Dvonch;Fuyuen Y Yip;Edith A Parker

  • The Relationship between Social Support, Stress, and Health among Women on Detroit’s East Side

    Barbara A. Israel;Stephanie A. Farquhar;Amy J. Schulz;Sherman A. James

Frequent Co-Authors

Barbara A. Israel
Barbara A. Israel University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Amy J. Schulz
Amy J. Schulz University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Stuart Batterman
Stuart Batterman University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Gerald J. Keeler
Gerald J. Keeler University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Marie S. O'Neill
Marie S. O'Neill University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
J. Timothy Dvonch
J. Timothy Dvonch University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Sherman A. James
Sherman A. James Duke University
Corinne Peek-Asa
Corinne Peek-Asa University of California, San Diego
Xihong Lin
Xihong Lin Harvard University
Cleopatra H. Caldwell
Cleopatra H. Caldwell University of Michigan–Ann Arbor

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