Over the past 40 years, an abundance of research has focused on which alcohol treatment approaches are most effective. Adult alcoholism treatment research clearly indicates that even brief treatment is generally better than no treatment at all, that certain treatments are more consistently effective than other methods, and also that there is no single treatment that is superior to all others. H...

Finding sufficient placements for students' Level I fieldwork experiences has become a major challenge in occupational therapy education and has led to the increased involvement of faculty members in facilitating these experiences. The conceptualization, site selection, program implementation, and outcome of three faculty-facilitated Level I fieldwork programs, designed for occupational therapy...

Community organizations, such as churches, clubs, and senior centers, can be important locations for health programs. However, little is known about the organizational factors that influence participation and engagement in health programs. To learn more, we evaluated a community-based program designed to help US military veterans better manage their high blood pressure. The program involved tra...

over In Kenya, an estimated 270 new pediatric HIV infections occur each day (NASCOP 2002). Maternal-to-child transmission of the virus is the cause of most HIV infections in children. To address this problem, the Kenyan government has implemented prevention of mother-to-child transmission (PMTCT) services throughout the country. These services include routine HIV counseling and testing (CT), im...

Community-based dental education programs (CBDEPs) are an important part of the curriculum in many dental schools. This article describes the redesign of the CBDEP at the University of Kentucky College of Dentistry. As part of the formative evaluation of this CBDEP, information on clinical productivity was collected in order to educate intramural faculty members about the scope and extent of se...

Background At the request of Redwood City partners and with funding from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation's Salud America! initiative, the John W. Gardner Center for Youth and Their Communities (JGC) at Stanford University undertook an analysis examining the extent to which after school program participation is associated with youth physical fitness outcomes using the Youth Data Archive (YDA)...

  Community assessment is a process in which the active participation of community members develops strategies and programs to address the strengths and weaknesses of the community and prioritize and solve them. This study is aimed to assess society and determine its health priorities in order to establish operational plan to solve its problems with population participation . This research is b...

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services announced $1.01 billion in funding opportunities for health promotion in fiscal year 2011 and selected winners for the first phase of these programs. These included $100 million over 5 years for 10 state Medicaid programs to develop incentive-based strategies, $900 million for 61 community-level programs through the Community Transformation Grant...

In this article we critically analyze the disconnect between much of the contemporary discourse and practice in Canadian community health nursing (CHN) that has contributed to the slow progress of strengths-based, health-promoting nursing practice. Appreciative inquiry philosophy and methods are introduced as a bridge to traverse this disciplinary gap. Two exemplars show how appreciative, stren...

The Resource Centers for Minority Aging Research (RCMAR) initiative was established in 1997 and currently includes six centers across the United States. The model of community engagement developed by all the RCMARs is Community Based Participatory Research (CBPR). This supplement explores the diverse methods of partnership building in each RCMAR and highlights some of the successes and challeng...