Community-Based Prevention Approaches

Disciplinary Management Approaches in the Prevention of Substance-Dependent Women's Crimes

Objective: The present study aimed to identify disciplinary management approaches in the prevention of substance-dependent women's crimes in the city of Shahryar. Method: The current research was descriptive-analytical conducted with a qualitative approach. The statistical population of the present study included experts and specialists in the field of disciplinary management and local managers...

Community Readiness as a Prerequisite for Childhood Obesity Prevention Programs: A Scoping Review

Introduction: The stage of community readiness to make changes or accept childhood obesity prevention programs has an essential role in the eventual success and sustainability of such programs. The current study aims to review the background of community readiness and investigate its importance in planning and implementing childhood obesity prevention programs. Materials and Methods: The litera...

Community-based childhood injury prevention interventions: what works?

Unintentional injury, with its broad range of injury types, possible countermeasures, and great number of agencies involved in its prevention, lends itself to community-based approaches. In this paper we examine 10 community-based injury prevention programmes that have targeted childhood injury prevention and have been evaluated using some measure of outcome. We investigate the nature of the in...

Community-based participatory research approaches to youth violence prevention: reflections on the special issue.

Achieving public health impact in youth violence prevention through community-research partnerships.

PROBLEM Violence is a leading cause of death and disability for U.S. youth. The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)'s Division of Violence Prevention (DVP) is committed to developing communities' capacity to engage in evidence-based youth violence (YV) prevention. PURPOSE We discuss the characteristics of communities that exert influence on the development and epidemiology o...

Mobilizing communities to implement evidence-based practices in youth violence prevention: the state of the art.

Community mobilization can increase the effective implementation of evidence-based practices (EBPs) in youth violence prevention. These strategies bring together people and organizations in a community to try to solve or reduce a problem. They help communities address the challenges of identifying EBPs, disseminating them to local decision-makers, and then implementing and sustaining them if th...