Purpose The Yoga Dosing Study is the first part of a 4-year NIH/ NCCAM funded comparative effectiveness randomized controlled trial of yoga vs. physical therapy vs. education for chronic low back pain (CLBP) in underserved populations. We sought to recruit a diverse population by reducing barriers such as health literacy, and increasing access and awareness of research studies through community...

Community-based participatory research methods allow for community engagement in the effort to reduce cancer health disparities. Community engagement involves health professionals becoming a part of the community in order to build trust, learn from the community and empower them to reduce disparities through their own initiatives and ideas. Audience Response Systems (ARS) are an innovative and ...

BACKGROUND Expansion of the health care workforce in Peru to combat tuberculosis (TB) includes both professional health care providers (HCPs) such as doctors and nurses, and non-professional HCPs such as community health workers (CHWs). We describe the knowledge and attitudes of these HCPs, and identify modifiable barriers to appropriate anti-tuberculosis treatment. METHODOLOGY We surveyed HC...

1Department of Community Health; Brown University; Providence, ri USA; 2Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine; Brown University; Providence, ri USA; 3Department of Neurological Surgery; University of California San Francisco; San Francisco, CA USA; 4Masonic Cancer Center; Division of epidemiology and Community Health; University of Minnesota; Minneapolis, MN USA; 5Section of Biostatis...

IMPORTANCE Increasing access to care may be insufficient to improve the health of patients with diabetes mellitus and unmet basic needs (hereinafter referred to as material need insecurities). How specific material need insecurities relate to clinical outcomes and the use of health care resources in a setting of near-universal access to health care is unclear. OBJECTIVE To determine the assoc...

Although some areas of clinical health care are becoming adept at implementing continuous quality improvement (CQI) projects, there has been limited experimentation of CQI in health promotion. In this study, we examined the impact of a CQI intervention on health promotion in four Australian Indigenous primary health care centers. Our study objectives were to (a) describe the scope and quality o...

assessing quality of family health services in view points of service users in urmia health posts   nabilou b[1],farokh eslamlou hr[2]*   received: 1 may , 2013 accepted: 2 jul , 2013   abstract background & aims:  community health largely depend on the primary health care sector of each country and primary healthcare including family health, as first contact services have basic role in health ...

In this commentary, we review definition frameworks for community health and examine factors having core relevance to shaping the meaning of this term and growing field. We conclude by suggesting a potential framework for conceptualizing and advancing this field of public health practice through improved understanding of the meaning, scope, and science of community health.