BACKGROUND The concepts of health promotion, self-care and community participation emerged during 1970s, primarily out of concerns about the limitation of professional health system. Since then there have been rapid growth in these areas in the developed world, and there is evidence of effectiveness of such interventions. These areas are still in infancy in the developing countries. There is a ...

The Latino Education Project (LEP) is conducting a multilevel Racial and Ethnic Approaches to Community Health (REACH) 2010 diabetes prevention project in Nueces County, one of 12 counties located in the Coastal Bend area of south Texas. Nueces County is characterized by high levels of poverty and diabetes-related complications and disability. The LEP chose a community capacity-building approac...

• Identify and discuss the importance for program planners to understand the diversity that exists within Latino/Hispanic populations and communities and the major cultural beliefs, values, familial, and community characteristics that exist within these diverse communities relevant to motivating the involvement and participation of Latino/Hispanic consumers in community health promotion programs

BACKGROUND Use of technology is increasing in health promotion and has continued growth potential in intervention research. Guided by the Reach, Effectiveness, Adoption, Implementation, and Maintenance (RE-AIM) framework, this paper reports on the adoption, reach, and implementation of Project HEAL (Health through Early Awareness and Learning)-a community-based implementation trial of a cancer...

Over the last number of years there has been growing interest in the use of community-based participatory research (CBPR) for preventing and controlling complex public health problems. Photovoice is one of several qualitative methods utilized in CBPR, as it is a participatory method that has community participants use photography, and stories about their photographs, to identify and represent i...

OBJECTIVE To delineate a role for pathologists in coordinating the study of childhood deaths due to injury and in developing public safety recommendations. METHODS Ongoing evaluation of cases of death due to injury occurring in children under 16 years, with formal review of all cases of fatal pediatric injuries recorded in the Department of Histopathology, Women's and Children's Hospital, ove...