Conventional thinking about preventive interventions focuses over simplistically on the
“package” of activities and/or their educational messages. An alternative is to focus on the …

Background Community engagement has been advanced as a promising way of improving
health and reducing health inequalities; however, the approach is not yet supported by a …

The powerful influence that social relationships have on health has garnered great interest
among both researchers and practitioners. An understanding of the impact of social …

" Having so many theories put together thoughtfully, proximally, in a single book will help the
field come to grips with what the role is of theories as we go forward and address the …

Public health communication campaigns have been credited with hel** raise awareness
of risk from chronic illness and new infectious diseases and with hel** promote the …

Despite the recent decline in breast cancer mortality, African American women continue to
die from breast cancer at higher rates than do White women. Beyond the fact that breast …

Objectives. A community trial was undertaken to evaluate the effectiveness of the North
Carolina Breast Cancer Screening Program, a lay health advisor network intervention …

Social norms imposing a prevailing silence around breast cancer in rural African American
communities have made it difficult for survivors to express their quality-of-life (QOL) …

The objective of this study was to examine lay health advisor (LHA) programs designed to
promote health among US Latinos and the extent to which educator-only versus educator …

Despite the proliferation of community–clinical linkage (CCL) interventions with community
health workers (CHWs), little is known about the components of these programs or how …