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 …

Background Government policy increasingly supports engaging communities to promote
health. It is critical to consider whether such strategies are effective, for whom, and under …

Background. Health disparities are aggravated when prevention and care initiatives fail to
reach those they are intended to help. Groups can be classified as hardly reached according …

Abstract Objectives Examine Peer Support (PS) for complex, sustained health behaviors in
prevention or disease management with emphasis on diabetes prevention and …

This exciting and engaging textbook introduces students to the psychology of lesbian, gay,
bisexual, trans and queer lives and experiences. It covers a broad range of topics including …

The diffusion of innovations model (DIM) and complex adaptive systems theory (CAS) can
be employed together in the construction of predictive or applied hybrid models of induced …

Background Systematic review methodologies can be harnessed to help researchers to
understand and explain how complex interventions may work. Typically, when reviewing …

Introduction In June 2021, United Nations (UN) Member States committed to ambitious
targets for scaling up community-led responses by 2025 toward meeting the goals of ending …

A series of community-level trials undertaken in the United States over the past 10 years
established the effectiveness of an HIV prevention intervention that systematically identifies …

Background Men who have sex with men (MSM) remain at great risk for HIV infection.
Program planners and policy makers need descriptions of interventions and quantitative …