Promoting Recovery from Substance Misuse through Engagement with Community Assets: Asset Based Community Engagement

Promoting oral health through community engagement.

Persistent health disparities still exist in the U.S. despite decades of focus on the importance of prevention. Individual behaviors are the major contributor to oral health. By partnering and linking with community organizations, oral health professionals can expand their reach, overcome the obstacles to delivering effective prevention activities in dental offices and improve the oral health o...

Community Engagement through Social Media

Community engagement, i.e., attracting eyeballs of citizens to focus on their civic government and its functioning is a vital aspect in nurturing healthy democracy at the local level, in both developed and developing countries. This paper looks into specific instances such as graffiti reporting through social media (in a developed country), collaborative focus on local community infrastructure ...

Preventing Substance Misuse Through Community–University Partnerships

Results: Intent-to-treat, multilevel ANCOVAs of point-in-time use at 4.5 years past baseline were conducted, with supplemental analyses of growth in use. Data were analyzed in 2009. Results showed signifıcantly lower substance use in the intervention group for 12 of 15 point-in-time outcomes, with relative reductions of up to 51.8%. Growth trajectory analyses showed signifıcantly slower growth ...

Rebuilding Earthquake Struck Nepal through Community Engagement

Nepal underwent two major earthquakes during 2015 which claimed 9,000 deaths, left more than 23,000 injured, displaced about 2 million people and destroyed about 1,000 health facilities. Emerging health issues and disease outbreaks soon after the earthquakes were major priorities. However, preventive measures such as health education, health promotion and trainings embedded in community engagem...

Tackling pesticide suicides through community engagement