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Ivan Gomez; Virginia Fowkes; Iris Price – Discover Education, 2024
Community engagement concepts incorporated into service-learning experiences help students in the health professions to connect classroom work with clinical practice and learn strategies and skills to improve community health. Service learning improves team skills, allows students to gain knowledge about communities where they train, and connects…
Descriptors: Medical Education, Allied Health Occupations Education, Service Learning, Community Programs
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Erica Martinez Zumba; Karriem S. Watson; Paola Torres; Barbara Williams; Nasima Mannan; Lauren Green; Brenda Owens; Nicole Gastala; Rocio Bueno; Brenda Soto; Leslie Carnahan; Yamile Molina; Vida Henderson – Health Education & Behavior, 2024
Community-engaged patient navigation safety net programs are established as an evidence-based approach to address cancer prevention and early detection efforts, but barriers to expand and sustain such programs persist. In addition, few studies describe how these programs impact buy-in among communities and policy change within health care systems…
Descriptors: Cancer, Community Health Services, Public Health, Preventive Medicine
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Kok, Michele S. Y.; Jones, Mat; Solomon-Moore, Emma; Smith, Jane R. – Health Education, 2018
Purpose: The quality of voluntary sector-led community health programmes is an important concern for service users, providers and commissioners. Research on the fidelity of programme implementation offers a basis for assessing and further enhancing practice. The purpose of this paper is to report on the fidelity assessment of Living Well Taking…
Descriptors: Fidelity, Program Implementation, Diabetes, Health Promotion
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Spassiani, Natasha A.; Parker Harris, Sarah; Hammel, Joy – Journal of Applied Research in Intellectual Disabilities, 2016
Community-based health initiatives (CBHI) play an important role in maintaining the health, function and participation of people with intellectual/developmental disabilities (I/DD) living in the community. However, implementation and long-term sustainability of CBHI is challenging. The Promoting Action on Research Implementation in Health Services…
Descriptors: Community Programs, Health Programs, Intellectual Disability, Developmental Disabilities
Gwynne, Kylie; Cairnduff, Annette – Metropolitan Universities, 2017
Aboriginal people fare worse than other Australians in every measure of health, including in a ten-year gap in life expectancy, infant mortality, cardiovascular disease, dental disease, mental health, chronic disease and maternal health. Despite sustained government effort, progress to improve Aboriginal health has been very slow. The collective…
Descriptors: Indigenous Populations, Health Programs, Health Promotion, Prevention
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Browne, Geoffrey R.; Davern, Melanie; Giles-Corti, Billie – Evidence & Policy: A Journal of Research, Debate and Practice, 2017
Victorian local governments (LGs) are required to develop evidence-based Municipal Public Health and Wellbeing Plans (MPHWPs) that improve health and wellbeing. This study evaluated the implementation of this requirement across 79 LGs. Evidence in 116 documents was categorised by source, issue, and policy specificity. Over 11,000…
Descriptors: Strategic Planning, Municipalities, Health Programs, Health Promotion