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Promoting Health at the Community Level
Promoting Health at the Community Level speaks directly to the challenges that foundations and funding agencies face in supporting the work of community-based groups. The seven case studies included in the book correspond to different multi-site initiatives funded by The Colorado Trust, a Denver-based health foundation. Each case study describes the initiative approach, the type of health promotion activities developed by community-based grantees, the various resources and guidelines provided by the foundation, the initial outcomes of the initiative, and lessons learned. In addition, the final chapter pulls together the findings from the seven case studies into a summary set of recommendatio...
Fixing Men
Most studies on reproductive rights make women their focus, but this work illuminates what men in the Mexican state of Oaxaca say and do about contraception, sex, and AIDS. It reveals how these men and the women in their lives make decisions about birth control and how they cope with the plague of AIDS.
Ethical Implications of Primary Prevention
Here is the first systematic and focused treatment of the ethical implications of primary prevention practice and research. This important volume reviews historical precedents, assesses current practice, and points to future directions concerning the ethical implications of primary prevention interventions and research. It provides a philosophical framework for the consideration of the ethical issues involved when preventionists intervene to "do good." The primary prevention movement has gained increasing momentum across a wide variety of mental health ans social service fields, including psychology, psychiatry, social work, psychiatric nursing, and public health. Because of the primitive st...
Culture, Conflict, And Communication In The Wildland-urban Interface
An examination of culture, conflict and communication in a rural/urban setting.
Aids Crossing Borders
AIDS has crossed every international border and affects all populationsthroughout the world, including migrant workers. In the U.S.,migrant workers are a hidden and sometimes maligned population withlimited access to needed health and welfare services, including HIVprevention. Little, however, is krown about the impact of the HIV IAIDS epidemic oo Latino farmworkers. This absence of systematic researchwas the impetus for the preparation of this book.This book is the first collection of research studies focusing specificallym migrant Latino farmworkers. The book brings together sevenresearch studies to provide a profile of the HN prevention, surveillanceand treatment needs of migrant workers....
Guiding Principles for Evaluators
The volume ends with a look to the future, to the sorts of issues and activities that we should keep in mind for the continued use and development of these principles.
AIDS
The use of understandable vocabulary, clear illustrations, and up-to-date information allows non-specialists to fully grasp the biological, social, and psychological aspects of this disease.
