Community-based interventionsappear generally effective in promotingPA. While the community setting may be suitable for reaching a large population, diversity within communities, however, may make it difficult and potentially undesirable to recruit people with different characteristics into a single “one s...
They do this through small-scale enterprises and locally-based investment in individuals and households. One such community-based program is the Grameen Bank , an NGO that provides microcredit to poor, rural, women. It has been successful in raising household income and improving human capital in...
Building partnerships with primary care medical offices can aid in the development and testing of community-based interventions such as smoking cessation delivered to medically underserved and diverse patient populations. Citation Format: Frances... FG Saad-Harfouche,EM Rodriguez,AM Twarozek,... - 《...
To conduct a literature review of community-based interventions intended to prevent or delay type 2 diabetes. Recently published findings about the potential to prevent or delay type 2 diabetes with intensive lifestyle interventions prompted a literature search for community-based diabetes prevention inter...
The purpose was to identify and describe the literature on community-based interventions on maternal health in high-income countries (HIC) and conceptually map the literature according to country focus, topics addressed, nature of the intervention and the intervention provider, and interventions designed...
This paper is based on a review of health literature to identify Australian and international examples of interventions utilising a community development approach with a view to directly addressing a health issue and contributing to the empowerment of Aboriginal people. Seventeen articles published over ...
Yet it is important not to exaggerate the trend of what has been called the “emptying out” of place-based communities, as three examples will show. First, tight place-based local networks survive, as Gans showed in what he called urban villages in poorer parts of Boston—places based on...
Results. A paucity of community-based data was found from developing-country studies on health status impact for many interventions currently being considered for inclusion in neonatal health programs. However, review of the evidence and consideration of the broader context of knowledge, experience, and...
Supply-side barriers (e.g. shortage of specialist mental health professionals) and demand-side barriers (e.g. lack of awareness about depression) lead to limited availability of evidence-based interventions, poor demand for care, and low levels of adherence to care. The aim of our study is ...
[48] or the Community-Based Resilience Analysis (CoBRA) [49], may be limited in scope, often focusing on only one community, but they can be immensely valuable for local disaster risk management, as they allow for targeted, customized interventions that consider the particular needs of the ...