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Communities are seeking ways to improve health by reducing violence. The Social Ecology Model of Adolescent Interpersonal Violence Prevention is presented as a tool for communities to use in identifying and addressing the multiple factors impacting engagement in or avoidance of violent behaviors. The CityNet Healthy Cities model is presented as a process for communities to use in developing broad-based actions groups capable of having an impact on violence. Together these models can be used by health professionals as they work with communities. Suggestions for community assessment, evaluation of available programs, committee development, and implementation are provided using the two models.

ISSN:0887-9311    

出版商:OVID    

年代:1999

数据来源: OVID

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A peer volunteer intervention to encourage attendance at mammography education programs was developed and evaluated as part of a multi-intervention study to improve mammography by women 65 years and older. Approximately five to seven women from each of 20 racially and socioeconomically diverse senior citizens' housing facilities were recruited. After completing a training session, they distributed invitations and spoke personally with fellow residents about attending the upcoming program. Attendance rates for facilities with the peer volunteer program were compared with those in facilities without the volunteers. Results of a logistic regression analysis found the volunteer program, in addition to facility size, to have had a statistically significant effect on attendance at the mammography education presentations.

ISSN:0887-9311    

出版商:OVID    

年代:1999

数据来源: OVID

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The grief of parents who have lost children to murder is extreme, prolonged, and unique. The authors, themselves bereaved by homicide, suggest a model to facilitate understanding such grief and to guide intervention. The model postulates that homicide survivor grief occurs in three arenas: the private, personal world; the public world of the media; and the world of the criminal justice system. Each arena contains features unique to homicide survivor bereavement. These features are described for the reader.

ISSN:0887-9311    

出版商:OVID    

年代:1999

数据来源: OVID

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Asthma in the inner city impacts people of all ages and is most pronounced in African Americans and other minorities. During the past decade, the prevalence of asthma has increased by 42%, a rate consistently higher in African Americans. Along with the increase in asthma prevalence, the costs associated with this disease have also risen dramatically. In addition, asthma is the leading cause of school absenteeism and also contributes to lost productivity. This article focuses on the epidemiology of asthma in urban areas and identifies various risk factors that are important in achieving control of this disease. Suggestions for future interventions are discussed.

ISSN:0887-9311    

出版商:OVID    

年代:1999

数据来源: OVID

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This work describes a demonstration/research project to implement and evaluate community-developed, community-based strategies that address childhood lead poisoning. The project will increase knowledge of childhood lead poisoning as an environmental health risk, as well as hazard, exposure, and outcome surveillance for lead as an environmental agent. At the end of the second year of this study the data indicate increased knowledge about lead poisoning and that more children are being tested for lead poisoning in the experimental census tracts (CTs), when compared with the control CTs, with lower lead levels.

ISSN:0887-9311    

出版商:OVID    

年代:1999

数据来源: OVID

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A 2-year pilot program implemented by public health nurses (PHNs) in partnership with the leaders of parent associations of 10 urban high schools encouraged communication about health-promoting sexual behavior between adults and adolescents. The purpose was to assess the feasibility of involving parents in health promotion efforts in schools. During the first year, PHNs prepared a cohort of 17 parent trainers to make presentations to parent groups about the reality of teens' risk for human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) exposure, facts to counter myths about outcomes of sex education, and the skills teens need to implement healthy choices, including abstinence, correct condom use, and talking about sex with a potential sexual partner. Each parent trainer was then scheduled to make two presentations at parent association meetings. Criteria for assessing the impact of extending the program, including broader diffusion in the community, are proposed. This approach may be effective for community-based education about other health issues.

ISSN:0887-9311    

出版商:OVID    

年代:1999

数据来源: OVID

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As health care services shift to the ambulatory and community setting, health professions educators must consider revamping educational programs to reflect the new venues of care. This transformation extends far beyond the location of services. The dynamic between the health care provider and the patient shifts to provider and customer. Services should be geared to the concerns of the individual and tailored to meet the realities of the person's life. This is true in all settings; and particularly true in the city. This article discusses the unique challenges of the urban environment and the benefits students gain by having clinical experiences based the city and working with members of these communities.

ISSN:0887-9311    

出版商:OVID    

年代:1999

数据来源: OVID

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As more health care systems recognize the importance of tending to the spiritual as well as physical side of health, parish nursing programs has been a growing trend in health care. At New Hanover Regional Medical Center in Wilmington, North Carolina, parish nurses work through church congregations to fill in the gaps in primary medical care in rural southeastern North Carolina. Parish nurses such as Judy Rush, who serves three churches in a county of less than 50,000 people, organize community screenings, take blood pressure during Sunday School, and pray with patients at their kitchen table. As more doctors acknowledge the spiritual role in healing, she says, parish nursing will become the wave of the future.

ISSN:0887-9311    

出版商:OVID    

年代:1999

数据来源: OVID

ISSN:0887-9311    

出版商:OVID    

年代:1999

数据来源: OVID