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SynthesisAmerican journal of public health2003

Reconsidering community-based health promotion: promise, performance, and potential.

Cheryl Merzel, Joanna D'Afflitti

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Synthesis in American journal of public health, 2003. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 229 papers, 10 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Cheryl MerzelCenter for Applied Public Health, Department of Sociomedical Sciences, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University, New York, NY 10032, USA. cm449@columbia.edu
Joanna D'Afflitti

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Contemporary public health emphasizes a community-based approach to health promotion and disease prevention. The evidence from the past 20 years indicates, however, that many community-based programs have had only modest impact, with the notable exception of a number of HIV prevention programs. To better understand the reasons for these outcomes, we conducted a systematic literature review of 32 community-based prevention programs. Reasons for poor performance include methodological challenges to study design and evaluation, concurrent secular trends, smaller-than-expected effect sizes, limitations of the interventions, and limitations of theories used. The effectiveness of HIV programs appears to be related in part to extensive formative research and an emphasis on changing social norms.

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Models, OrganizationalPublic Health PracticeCommunity Health PlanningEvidence-Based MedicineHealth PromotionHealth StatusHumansPreventive Health ServicesProgram EvaluationSocial ChangeSocial MarketingSocial ValuesUnited States

Identifiers

PMID12660197
PMCPMC1447790

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