▪ Abstract Community-based research in public health focuses on social, structural, and
physical environmental inequities through active involvement of community members …

Progress in public health and community-based interventions has been hampered by the
lack of a comprehensive evaluation framework appropriate to such programs. Multilevel …

Background: Because most adults in industrialized countries do not meet physical activity
guidelines, population-wide interventions are needed. Environmental and policy …

Research on physical activity (PA) has expanded in recent years to examine environmental
influences that enhance or limit the opportunities people have to be active. The purpose of …

Starting with the proposition that “if we want more evidence-based practice, we need more
practice-based evidence,” this article (a) offers questions and guides that practitioners …

Article-at-a-Glance Background Although numerous studies address the efficacy and
effectiveness of health interventions, less research addresses successfully implementing …

Background and purpose. Despite the widely acknowledged public health burden and years
of individually based intervention approaches, physical inactivity remains a growing concern …

Since the 1980s, ecological models of health promotion have generated a great deal of
enthusiasm among researchers and interventionists. These models emerged from …

An ecological perspective on health emphasises both individual and contextual systems and
the interdependent relations between the two. Origins of this approach have emanated from …

Network analysis is an approach to research that is uniquely suited to describing, exploring,
and understanding structural and relational aspects of health. It is both a methodological tool …