A Framework for Population Health Planning, Implementation, and Evaluation / Lawrence W. Green, Andrea C. Gielen, Marshall W. Kreuter, Darleen V. Peterson, and Judith M. Ottoson -- Participation and Community Engagement in Planning / Lawrence W. Green, Andrea C. Gielen, and Marshall W. Kreuter...

Despite the many accomplishments of public health, a greater attention to evidence-based approaches is warranted. This article reviews the concepts of evidence-based public health (EBPH), on which formal discourse originated about a decade ago. Key components of EBPH include making decisions on...

The ability to assign patients to the most appropriate program of intervention would improve patient outcomes and reduce health care costs. This paper evaluates specific potentials of triaging patients into various combinations of health education treatments. Blood pressure improvement among...

This report presents the process and summative evaluation results from a community-based diabetes prevention and control project implemented in response to the increasing prevalence and impact of non-insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus (NIDDM) in the Canadian Aboriginal population. The 24-month...

An understanding of the social and psychological forces effecting the use that people ll.lake of existing medical care and health facilities is essential to programme planning and administration. Yet, little is known about these forces as· they operate in Pakistan and elsewhere with regard to...

Very little of the intense interest and activity in the field offamily planning in Pakistan has come up in the form of publications. Since the formation of the Family Planning Association of Pakistan in 1953 and the initiative of the government in promoting a national family-planning programme...

There is considerable merit in undertaking to shift disease patterns at the community level. Typical problems reflect difficulties in the application of community-based prevention programmes, rather than inherent deficiencies in the concept itself. Scientific issues bear as much on successful...