led program managers to seek approaches to family planning (FP) that will also help combat HIV/AIDS and other sexually transmitted infections (STIs). These approaches include use of simplified STI diagnosis and treatment protocols and promotion of male and female condoms. One aspect of condom promotion that is receiving increased attention is the idea of adding men to communitybased distributio...

Flood along the Mekong River and the Tonle Sap Lake and tributaries is a recurring event, sometimes reaching disastrous dimensions, with severe losses in human lives and food production. The annual flood in Cambodia reached catastrophic proportions in 1996, prompting the Cambodian Red Cross (CRC) and the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (the Federation) to initia...

An important recent trend in health promotion and disease prevention has been the increasing number and scope of communitybased interventions. These programs are aimed at entire populations, which are usually geographically defined, and they attempt to change health behavior and disease risk through mass media campaigns, activation of existing community organizations, or changes in the physical...

Two hierarchical location-allocation models are used to locate two types of communitybased health facilities in Davao City, Philippines. Oftentimes, locating health facilities are motivated by factors such as politics and resource availability. Different optimization approaches to locating a mix of these health facilities across the rural and urban areas of the city. Computations results are ev...

As local community coordinator of the Border Health Strategic Initiative (Border Health ¡SI!), a program in Yuma County to develop a comprehensive, communitybased approach to diabetes prevention and control, I was responsible for facilitating communication among five community partners, between community partners and campus-based faculty, and developing and coordinating a Special Action Group (...

The rise of social interactions on the Web requires developing new methods of information organization and discovery. To that end, we propose a generative community-based probabilistic tagging model that can automatically uncover communities of users and their associated tags. We experimentally validate the quality of the discovered communities over the social bookmarking system Delicious. In c...

Although the supply of nurses is likely to meet overall demand, the nature of a nurse’s job is changing dramatically. In redesigned health care systems, nurses are assuming expanded roles for a broad range of patients in ambulatory settings and communitybased care. These roles involve new responsibilities for population health, care coordination and interprofessional collaboration. Nursing educ...

In 2013, Senegal piloted an innovative combination model, where multiple channels for continuous distribution of long-lasting insecticide-treated nets were introduced and tested at the same time. From February to August 2013, health facilities, communitybased organizations and schools in the regions of Louga and Ziguinchor distributed 102,869 nets using both free and subsidized mechanisms. The ...

0 In This Issue Family Involvement ............................................. 1 Program Showcase: Family, Peers, School, and Communtiy .............................................. 1 A National Survey of School/CommunityBased Organization Partnerships ................... 1 Peer Group Influence and Academic Aspirations Across Cultural/Ethnic Groups .. 3 Developing Immigrant Parents’ Computer...