Promoting health at the community level / editors, Douglas V. Easterling, Kaia M. Gallagher, Dora G. Lodwick.

Providing a systematic examination of community-based health promotion, this text offers nine case studies which illustrate what community-driven health promotion means in practice evaluates its potential for achieving improvements in the health of local populations & presents strategies for the...

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Online Access: Full Text (via ProQuest)
Other Authors: Easterling, Douglas, Gallagher, Kaia, Lodwick, Dora G.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Thousand Oaks [Calif.] : Sage Pub., ©2003.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction / Kaia M. Gallagher, Douglas V. Easterling, and Dora G. Lodwick
  • The Colorado healthy communities initiative: communities defining and addressing health / Ross F. Conner, Sora Park Tanjasiri, Catherine L. Dempsey, Gabriela Robles, Marc B. Davidson, and Douglas V. Easterling
  • The community indicators project: tracking health and quality of life / Ross F. Conner, Douglas V. Easterling, Sora Park Tanjasiri, and James V. Adams-Berger
  • The teen pregnancy prevention 2000 initiative: community building through consensus / Kaia M. Gallagher and Jodi G. Drisko
  • The community action for health promotion initiative: building capacity in small, focused, community-based health promotion programs / Douglas H. Fernald, Deborah S. Main, Carolyn J. Tressler, and Kathryn A. Judge Nearing
  • The volunteers for rural seniors initiative: leveraging community resources to meet the needs of seniors
  • Dora G. Lodwick and Allan Wallis
  • The Colorado school health education initiative: promoting school health education through capacity building / Deborah S. Main, Douglas H. Fernald, Kathryn A. Judge Nearing, Donna K. Duffy, and Jill A. Elnicki
  • Home visitation learning groups: community-based professionals discovering best practices / Thomas I. Miller, Michelle Miller Kobayashi, and Peggy L. Hill
  • What do the case studies say about community-based health promotion"? / Douglas V. Easterling, Kaia M. Gallagher, and Dora G. Lodwick
  • Practical lessons for promoting health at the community level / Douglas V . Easterling, Kaia M. Gallagher, and Dora G. Lodwick.