Community-based health interventions : principles and applications

"Community Based Health Interventions: Principles and Application is a completely modern approach to worst problems in community health: diabetes, cancer, cardiovascular disease, HIV, asthma, and obesity. Following the trend begun by CDC and other agencies, the book takes a proactive and eviden...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Guttmacher, Sally (Author), Kelly, Patricia J. [ (Patricia Jane)] (Author), Ruiz-Janecko, Yumary , 1969- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: San Francisco, California : Jossey-Bass , c2010
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Table of Contents:
  • 1. Improving health in community settings
  • 2. A brief history of community-based health interventions
  • 3. Ethical issues in community interventions
  • 4. Levels and types of community-based interventions
  • 5. A framework for designing community-based interventions
  • 6. Collecting and managing data
  • 7. Assessing community needs
  • 8. Planning a community-based intervention
  • 9. Implementing a community-based intervention
  • 10. Evaluating a community-based intervention
  • 11. Funding and sustainability
  • 12. Implementation pitfalls
  • 13. The future of community-based health interventions
  • 14. Community-based health interventions in practice