Advancing the Science of Community-Level Interventions

Community interventions are complex social processes that need to move beyond single interventions and outcomes at individual levels of short-term change. A scientific paradigm is emerging that supports collaborative, multilevel, culturally situated community interventions aimed at creating sustaina...

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Published inAmerican journal of public health (1971) Vol. 101; no. 8; pp. 1410 - 1419
Main Authors TRICKETT, Edison J, BEEHLER, Sarah, TRIMBLE, Joseph E, DEUTSCH, Charles, GREEN, Lawrence W, HAWE, Penelope, MCLEROY, Kenneth, LIN MILLER, Robin, RAPKIN, Bruce D, SCHENSUL, Jean J, SCHULZ, Amy J
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Washington, DC American Public Health Association 01.08.2011
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Acquired immune deficiency syndrome
AIDS
Biological and medical sciences
Collaboration
Community
Community Participation
Design
Disease control
Framing Health Matters
General aspects
Health disparities
Health Promotion
Humans
Interdisciplinary aspects
Intervention
Medical sciences
Miscellaneous
Public Health
Public health. Hygiene
Public health. Hygiene-occupational medicine
R&D
Research & development
Science
Sexual behavior
Social sciences
Social Welfare
Sociology
Studies
Sciences
Public health
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Summary:Community interventions are complex social processes that need to move beyond single interventions and outcomes at individual levels of short-term change. A scientific paradigm is emerging that supports collaborative, multilevel, culturally situated community interventions aimed at creating sustainable community-level impact. This paradigm is rooted in a deep history of ecological and collaborative thinking across public health, psychology, anthropology, and other fields of social science. The new paradigm makes a number of primary assertions that affect conceptualization of health issues, intervention design, and intervention evaluation. To elaborate the paradigm and advance the science of community intervention, we offer suggestions for promoting a scientific agenda, developing collaborations among professionals and communities, and examining the culture of science.
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Each author was a member of the collaborative conference planning committee described in the article. The article is a synthesis of the committee's planning meetings and of the individual author presentations at the conference. E. J. Trickett and S. Beehler led the writing of the article. C. Deutsch, L. W. Green, P. Hawe, K. McLeroy, R. L. Miller, B. D. Rapkin, J. J. Schensul, A. J. Schulz, and J. E. Trimble participated in revising the article.
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ISSN:0090-0036
1541-0048
DOI:10.2105/AJPH.2010.300113