Background: Food environment plays a major role in health outcomes. A growing interest in community-based participatory research (CBPR) has led to its application in the improvement of the food environment. This scoping review aims to compile and map the literature and identify key strategies used for increasing community participation capacity in the food environment policymaking process.    ...

The primary purpose of this article is to discuss about the community role in sustainable development and expand understanding prospects for activity. This explores idea type improve quality life within communities. Authors identified that depends on engagement planning. activities include meeting social financial needs its residents while preserving sustaining environment’s ability support it....

Background: Thrombolytic therapy used in patients with acute myocardial infarction may increase the risk of stroke. Scant information is available from community-based studies. Summary of Report: Among 5,635 consecutive patients admitted with acute myocardial infarction to hospitals in Seattle and surrounding suburban King County, Washington, 116 (2.1%) experienced strokes during hospitalizatio...

An alternative approach, sometimes called the public health or “environmental” perspective, tends to focus on formal laws, policies, and practices that affect the production, distribution, sales, and marketing of alcoholic beverages, or formal mechanisms that affect the drinkers themselves, such as drunk driving laws. These prevention programs generally promote policy changes by working through...

During the 1980s, the government of Italy provided UNICEF very substantial support for a number of global programmes in the areas of health and nutrition, namely the Extended Programme of Immunization, the Essential Drugs Programme and the Joint WHO/UNICEF Nutrition Support Programme. As the programmes were meant to provide the greatest benefit to the countries in greatest need, the majority of...

Rapid, small surveys are routinely done in much of the developing world but are less common in the United States. We present as an example a rapid survey of immunization status and other factors in a predominantly Hispanic region in Los Angeles. The survey united county employees, students, and community volunteers, first to enumerate the eligible population and then to conduct in-person interv...

As the sheer volume of information continues to grow, information overload challenges users in many ways. Large conferences are one of the venues suffering from this overload. Faced with several parallel sessions and large volumes of papers covering diverse areas of interest, conference participants often struggle to identify the most relevant sessions to attend. We have designed a community-ba...