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Direct linkWilliams, K. P.; Mullan, P. B.; Todem, D. – Health Education Research, 2009
This paper presents the rationale and findings of a feasibility and process study of the Kin Keeper[superscript SM] Cancer Prevention Intervention. An observational cohort study design was implemented with African-American women in synergistic female family relationships. Community health workers (CHWs) from two Michigan public health programs…
Descriptors: Females, Prevention, Focus Groups, Health Programs
Best, Allan; Moor, Gregg; Holmes, Bev; Clark, Pamela I.; Bruce, Ted; Leischow, Scott; Buchholz, Kaye; Krajnak, Judith – American Journal of Health Behavior, 2003
Objective:: To help close the gap between health promotion research and practice by using systems thinking. Methods: We review 3 national US tobacco control initiatives and a project (ISIS) that has introduced systems thinking to tobacco control, speculating on ways in which systems thinking may add value to health promotion dissemination and…
Descriptors: Health Promotion, Smoking, Theory Practice Relationship, Program Implementation
Weist, Mark D.; Paternite, Carl E. – Education and Treatment of Children, 2006
School mental health (SMH) programs and services have grown progressively in the United States in the past two decades, related to increased acknowledgement of their advantages and prominent federal initiatives (e.g., No Child Left Behind Act President's New Freedom Initiative; 20(13). Nonetheless, SMH is an emerging and tenuously supported field…
Descriptors: Mental Health Programs, Federal Legislation, Educational Policy, Public Health
Download full textLewis, Laurie K. – 1991
An important goal of health education is to change behavior by increasing knowledge, but current theory has not been able to account for the actual health behavior of adolescents. Theoretical and empirical work has been focused on explaining individual health behaviors: for example, risky adolescent behaviors such as drinking, smoking, drug use,…
Descriptors: Adolescent Behavior, Adolescents, Health Behavior, Health Education
