Community-Based Health Interventions

by Sally Guttmacher (New York University); Patricia J. Kelly; Yumary Ruiz-Janecko (New York University)

• ISBN13: 9780470575086
• ISBN10: 0470575085
• Format: eBook
• Copyright: 2010-02-01
• Publisher: Jossey-Bass

Summary

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 evidence-based approach reducing risk for individuals and communities. In a step by step approach, the book teaches how to design interventions, how to pick methods, how to assess the interventions' effects, and how to identify and address ethical challenges. The book refers constantly to real-world examples from across the US and also includes international examples of public health issues facing our communities today, and what to do about them.Part I of the book covers the fundamentals of interventions: Intervention rationale, Target population, Community setting, Design, Collaborations and partnerships, Political and organizational influence, Evaluation, Ethics, and Resources.Part II of the book covers types of interventions: formative intervention, informational intervention, social/behavioral, and environmental/policy.Most funding for community-based public health efforts is determined by categorical programs. Therefore, part III of the book is organized by major catagories: Type II Diabetes, Cardiovascular disease, obesity, infectious disease, substance abuse, injury and violence, reproductive and sexual health, cancer, and maternal/child healthThe book's web site will include links to databases; links to agency and public health resources; intervention tools; instructor guides, slides, assignments; and additional case examples.

Table of Contents

Tables, Figure, and Exhibit

Preface

The Authors

Introducing Community-Based Interventions

Improving Health In Community Settings

Defining Community

Ecological Theory and Levels of Prevention

A Brief History Of Community-Based Health Interventions

Community-Based Health Interventions: An Instrument for Change

Early Community-Based Health Interventions

The Evolution of Community-Based Health Interventions

Ethical Issues In Community Interventions

The Integration of Ethics into Public Health Practice

Institutional Review Boards

Vulnerable Populations

Permission and Consent

Protection for Research Participants

Ensuring Research Quality

Maintaining the Integrity of Research

Levels And Types Of Community Interventions

An Ecological Focus on Types of Prevention

Selecting a Goal for the Intervention

Examples of Interventions at Different Levels of Prevention

Developing The Intervention

A Framework For Designing Community Interventions

Theoretical Guidance for Health Interventions

Examples of Theories Used at the Four Ecological Levels

Collecting And Managing Data

Data: A Crucial Component of Research

Collecting Quantitative Data

Collecting Qualitative Data

After Data Collection

Working Through The Intervention

Assessing Community Needs

Basic Components of a Community Assessment

Strengthening Your Findings

Planning A Community-Based Intervention

Intervention Content and Format

A Logic Model as an Organizing Strategy

Sample Community Assessment: Adolescent Tobacco Use

Implementing A Community-Based Intervention

Implementation at the Four Ecological Levels

Interventions at the Community or Policy Level

Evaluating A Community-Based Intervention

Reasons for Evaluation

Preparing for an Evaluation

Designing the Evaluation

Flexibility: An Essential Skill in Evaluation

Learning From The Past And Adapting To The Future

Funding And Sustainability

Financing Community-Based Health Interventions

Components of the Proposal for Funding

Components of the Budget

Continuing and Sustaining an Intervention

Implementation Pitfalls

Things Happen

The Future Of Community-Based Health Interventions

Adapting Methods of Intervention to Twenty-First Century Communities

A Challenge and an Opportunity of Public Health Practitioners

A Limitation of the New Technologies

Community-Based Health Interventions In Practice

Arthritis

Asthma

Adult Vaccinations

Alcohol Use

Cardiovascular Disease

Childhood Vaccinations

Injuries from Motor Vehicle Accidents

Sexual Assault and Relationship Violence

Smoking

Glossary

References

Index

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