This book is devoted to a theme of public health reaching out to communities of practice/engaging communities in new public health endeavours/community-scientist collaborations. The authors sought chapters that fit the theme and were either quantitative or qualitative research, program descriptions, or theoretical reviews of public health issues. Thus, this book contains both quantitative and qualitative research papers, programmatic and theoretical papers on applied public health issues. A range of topics are included from violence and behavioural problems to nutrition, cancer survival, deinstitutionalisation, intellectual disability and child maltreatment.
Preface; Introduction:: Applied public health; Associations between hunger & emotional & behavioral problems; Prevalence & correlates of suicidal ideation & physical fighting; The influence of aging, health & community characteristics on happiness; Intimate partner violence in post-conflict Bosnia; Community & academia partnerships in the Lower Mississippi Delta; Utilizing focus groups to establish a tobacco related cancer survivors network; Moving breast cancer awareness from margin to center in African American communities.
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