Funding community level initiatives

A map of community-based obesity prevention initiatives in Australia following obesity funding 2009–2013

OBJECTIVE Obesity is the single biggest public health threat to developed and developing economies. In concert with healthy public policy, multi-strategy, multi-level community-based initiatives appear promising in preventing obesity, with several countries trialling this approach. In Australia, multiple levels of government have funded and facilitated a range of community-based obesity prevent...

Funding community practice: stage 1.

A broad definition of community practice has implications for how occupational therapy services are defined, delivered, and funded. The historical foundations of occupational therapy support an expansion into health promotion and prevention programming that is based in the community. Moving into these roles opens up an array of funding possibilities. It may also require developing new partnersh...

Commentary: Perspectives on funding community pediatrics.

The 5 panelists on the funders’ session, “ Show Me the Money’ (Part 2): Private and Public Foundations,” at the July 2004 American Academy of Pediatrics Community Access to Child Health and Medical Home National Conference could have changed the title of the session from “Show Me the Money” to “Show Me the Project, Passion, Your Partnerships, and Existing Relationships With the Community, Data,...

Measuring the Impacts of Community Development Initiatives:

Measuring the Impacts of Community Development Initiatives: A New Application of the Adjusted Interrupted Time Series Method We attempt in this article to contribute to the development of empirical methods for measuring the impacts of place-based local development strategies. Previous approaches typically founder against the challenge of estimating the counterfactual of how the outcome indicato...

Communicative planning theory and community initiatives