The Ramah Band of Navajo Indians and the Albuquerque Area Indian Health Board produced a health promotion video to build community awareness of breast and cervical cancer. Objectives of the video were to raise awareness of the burgeoning incidence of breast and cervical cancer among American Indian people, increase knowledge of breast and cervical cancer early detection exams, encourage communi...

The Communities for Healthy Living program used a community-based participatory research (CBPR) approach to empower Head Start parents in designing and pilot testing a multi-component family-centered obesity prevention program. One program component was a childhood obesity awareness campaign addressing common parental misconceptions about obesity. The campaign was designed by a community adviso...

There is a need for the communities to develop their health financing system, most especially those that were not covered by the National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS). This will give the people an opportunity to finance their medical care which in turn would alleviate financial burden at the point of treatment. Therefore, this study is aimed to determine the level of awareness for Community B...

Günümüzde artan ruhsal sorunlar nedeniyle, toplumun ruh sağlığını korumak ve güçlendirmek daha da önemli bir konu haline gelmiştir. Ruhsal bozukluklar hakkında toplumların bilgi eksikliklerinin damgalayıcı tutumlarının olması, bozuklukların erken dönemde etkili şekilde tedavi edilememesine sebep olmaktadır. Bu bağlamda, koruyucu sağlığı hizmetleri kapsamında okuryazarlığını arttırmak adım olaca...