M C Kegler

..Understanding how these physically active adults take advantage of their living situations to be physically active has the potential to inform interventions that encourage physical activity in this high-risk population...

..This suggests that although member engagement does explain some relationships, it alone is not sufficient to explain how coalition processes influence indicators of community capacity...

..S.- and Mexico-born Hispanics in the southwestern United States, and examined the influence of mother's country of birth and smoking practices on voluntary smoking bans and on child ETS exposure...

..To identify factors associated with successful neighborhood mobilization to prevent teen pregnancy using a positive youth development approach...

..This article presents findings from an evaluation of the Institute and its impact on participating teams of faith and public health leaders...

..These findings have implications for designing intervention strategies to promote smoke-free cars and help family members to negotiate and enforce car smoking rules...

..Our findings suggest the healthy cities and communities model has the potential to strengthen the organizational infrastructure of communities to promote health...

..This paper reports characteristics of rural homes and neighborhoods related to physical activity environments, availability of healthy foods, and family support for physical activity and maintaining an ideal body weight...

..Findings suggest that the Healthy Cities and Communities model can be successful in facilitating community participation...

..Findings lend support to the value of community-based education for primary prevention of lead poisoning in Native American and rural communities...

..Domains are history of collaboration, geography, community demographics and economic conditions, community politics and history, and community norms and values...

..Of particular note is that tribal linkages with local, state and federal agencies increased over time, as did inter-tribal linkages to address the lead issue...

..Findings suggest that faith-health partnerships face unique challenges but are capable of aligning resources to address health disparities...

..Findings provide preliminary support for many, but not all, of the relationships predicted by CCAT...

..White and American Indian youth were more likely to discuss that their parents felt it was their own decision as to whether or not to smoke than were the other groups...

..These findings have implications for designing intervention strategies and messages to promote household smoking bans and help family members negotiate smoke-free homes...

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..Findings suggest that interventions to promote anti-smoking socialization beliefs among parents with high school education or less may be important in low-income, rural communities with high smoking rates...

..Significant interdisciplinary evaluation research is necessary to accelerate the identification of successful models for reducing the burden of environmental health problems in communities...

..Findings suggest that neighborhood and community-level influences should be considered when designing youth development interventions to reduce risk behaviors...

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..More modest improvements were noted in the areas of increased organizational support and policy change at the local or state level...

..Types of skill-building opportunities may be more important than number of hours devoted to meetings and activities in strengthening community problem-solving and collaboration skills among coalition members...

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..This study is one of the first studies to examine the content of family discussions about not smoking among rural African American families from the perspective of parents and extended family members...

..These findings can inform interventions designed to create and maintain smoke-free households...

..Mean reliability scores across two respondents from the same organization ranged from 60% to 90%. Results from network studies may help communities learn how to strengthen organizational networks to enhance community capacity...

..Findings also suggest that LHA interventions are a promising approach for engaging Native American communities in addressing an environmental health problem...

..CONCLUSIONS: Our findings provide limited support for the effectiveness of lay health advisor interventions as a primary lead poisoning prevention strategy for Native American communities...

..Findings from this formative research will provide the foundation upon which to design and test effective strategies for creating smoke-free homes in rural, low-income communities. ..

..Process evaluation methods include documentation of lay health advisory contacts and interviews with youth and adult volunteers. ..