Multilevel targeted interventions should increase knowledge and include family members to increase cervical cancer screening and HPV vaccination uptake in the Somali community.

This community-based participatory research study sought to identify the cultural health assets of the Somali and Oromo communities in one Minnesota neighborhood that could be mobilized to develop culturally appropriate health interventions. Community asset mappers conducted 76 interviews with Somali and Oromo refugees in in Minnesota regarding the cultural assets of their community. A community-university data analysis team coded data for major themes. Key cultural health assets of the Somali and Oromo refugee communities revealed in this study include religion and religious beliefs, religious and cultural practices, a strong culture of sharing, interconnectedness, the prominence of oral traditions, traditional healthy eating and healthy lifestyles, traditional foods and medicine, and a strong cultural value placed on health. These cultural health assets can be used as building blocks for culturally relevant health interventions.

Health care providers who understand refugees' beliefs about health may achieve more compliance with refugee patients.

It is deposited under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-No Derivatives License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/), which permits non-commercial re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited, and is not altered, transformed, or built upon in any way. Asset Mapping as a Participatory Research ApproachResearchers have been creating maps for centuries as a way to synthesize and spatially represent our knowledge of the complex social and physical world. The notion of the map broadened considerably in the 20th century (Suchan and Brewer, 2000), and researchers outside of the fields of geography or cartography are now using mapping techniques to map all sorts of social and physical phenomena, including communities, neighborhoods, relationships, health, culture, social services and even bodies. Mapping is no longer limited to geographic representations, but can also include non-geographic data visualization, or even mapping that is completely conceptual. Mapping is increasingly common as a research strategy among those engaged in participatory approaches to research, and often is used on its own or in combination with other methods as part of community-based participatory research projects. This chapter introduces participatory asset mapping as a research approach, which can include conceptual or visual maps. The chapter includes a case example of participatory asset mapping, and a step-by-step guide for using participatory asset mapping as a research method. Conceptual Framing of Participatory Asset MappingParticipatory asset mapping as a research tool has its roots both in spatial mapping used by geographers and other researchers, typically in a non-participatory way, and in the growth of various forms of participatory mapping as a practice method in social work, community development, international development and related fields. The use of mapping as a research method has been common in social, physical and biological sciences since the middle of the 20th century (Parker and Asencio, 2009). It became more widespread in the 1990s with the increase in availability of spatial analysis software, such as Geographic Information Systems (GIS). Using mapping as a research tool allowed researchers to answer a variety of research questions relating to the location, distribution and relationship between various elements, ranging from people to plants. Researchers in the applied social sciences, notably the disciplines of geography, public affairs, urban affairs, and public health, have used mapping to answer questions relating to topics such as population patterns, migration patterns, distribution of government and nonprofit services, community health and transportation routes (Dueker, 1987;Greenberg and Oakley, 1983;Taaffe, 1956). In the 1980s and 1990s a less spatial type of mapping, conceptual mapping, also grew, which involved developing

This chapter introduces participatory asset mapping as a research approach, which can include conceptual or visual maps. The chapter includes a case example of participatory asset mapping, and a step-by-step guide for using participatory asset mapping as a participatory research method.