Needs and Capacity Assessment Strategies for Health Education and Health Promotion - BOOK ALONE
Needs and Capacity Assessment Strategies for Health Education and Health Promotion - BOOK ALONE

Author: Gary D. Gilmore

Publisher: Jones & Bartlett Publishers

Published: 2011-08-18

Total Pages: 377

ISBN-13: 1449675662

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Needs and Capacity Assessment Strategies for Health Education and Health Promotion, Fourth Edition provides practitioners with a handbook that can be used in the classroom and in the field. It focuses on realistic needs and capacity assessment strategies with considerations for preparation, implementation, and incorporation of findings into the planning process. It also provides an overview of settings, specific target audiences, approaches to assessing needs, and recommendations for addressing problems encountered along the way. Important Notice: The digital edition of this book is missing some of the images or content found in the physical edition.

Rural Populations and Health
Rural Populations and Health

Author: Richard Crosby

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

Published: 2012-07-30

Total Pages: 416

ISBN-13: 1118235487

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Health-related disparities remain a persistent, serious problem across the nation's more than 60 million rural residents. Rural Populations and Health provides an overview of the critical issues surrounding rural health and offers a strong theoretical and evidence-based rationale for rectifying rural health disparities in the United States. This edited collection includes a comprehensive examination of myriad issues in rural health and rural health care services, as well as a road map for reducing disparities, building capacity and collaboration, and applying prevention research in rural areas. This textbook offers a review of rural health systems in Colorado, Kentucky, Alabama, and Iowa, and features contributions from key leaders in rural public health throughout the United States. Rural Populations and Health examines vital health issues such as: Health assessment Strategies for building rural coalitions Promoting rural adolescent health Rural food disparities Promoting oral health in rural areas Physical activity in rural communities Preventing farm-related injuries Addressing mental health issues Cancer prevention and control in rural communities Reducing rural tobacco use Rural Populations and Health is an important resource for students, faculty, and researchers in public health, preventive medicine, public health nursing, social work, and sociology.