ReviewEuropean journal of clinical nutrition2005
Public health impact of community-based nutrition and lifestyle interventions.
Review in European journal of clinical nutrition, 2005. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 17 papers, 3 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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17 citing papers in PubMed, 3 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- Systematic review on community-based interventions targeting prevention of overweight and obesity in children and adolescents.Frontiers in public health · 2025Pooled it
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- Implementation of the 'Optimising the Health Extension Program' Intervention in Ethiopia: A Process Evaluation Using Mixed Methods.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2020Trial
- Connections between redlining, food access, hypertension, diabetes, and obesity in Boston.Frontiers in public health · 2025Article
- "Everything in One Place": Stakeholder Perceptions of Integrated Medical and Social Care for Diabetes Patients in Western Maryland.Journal of general internal medicine · 2023Article
- Analysing outlier communities to child birth weight outcomes in Malawi: application of multinomial logistic regression model diagnostics.BMC pediatrics · 2022Article
- Association between multi-component initiatives and physical activity-related behaviors: interim findings from the Healthy Schools Healthy Communities initiative.BMC public health · 2021Article
- Multi-Level, Multi-Component Approaches to Community Based Interventions for Healthy Living-A Three Case Comparison.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2016Article
- State-of-the-art and future directions in multilevel interventions across the cancer control continuum.Journal of the National Cancer Institute. Monographs · 2012Review
- The Effectiveness of Lifestyle Physical Activity Interventions to Reduce Cardiovascular Disease.American journal of lifestyle medicine · 2009Article
- RT-ABCDE strategy for management and prevention of human diseases.Chinese journal of integrative medicine · 2008Article
- A methodology for evaluating organizational change in community-based chronic disease interventions.Preventing chronic disease · 2007Article
- A bibliometric analysis in the fields of preventive medicine, occupational and environmental medicine, epidemiology, and public health.BMC public health · 2006Article
- Treating pediatric obesity in the primary care setting to prevent chronic disease: perceptions and knowledge of providers and staff.North Carolina medical journalArticle
- Measuring capability for healthy diet and physical activity.Annals of family medicineArticle
- Obesity and diabetes in vulnerable populations: reflection on proximal and distal causes.Annals of family medicineReview
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Abstract
Community-based interventions have increasingly received attention since researchers and public health professionals have come to acknowledge the importance of an environment that makes the healthy choice the easy choice. All stakeholders including the target community are involved to achieve changes in legislation, in people's social and physical context, and in individual characteristics that support healthy diets and other lifestyles. Some early large-scale community-based heart health interventions showed promising results. The Stanford Five City Project, for example, showed net improvements in knowledge of coronary heart disease risk factors of approximately 12%. Net declines in smoking prevalence (14%), cholesterol (2%), and systolic (3%) and diastolic (5%) blood pressure were also observed. Most later studies did not replicate these findings and it was therefore suggested that community-based interventions, which require substantial commitment and resources, may be less effective than approaches targeting high-risk groups. We present the rationale and theories for community-based interventions, and then elaborate on the methodological challenges in the design and the outcome and process evaluation of community-based interventions. We provide an overview of some of the evidence on the effectiveness of community-based heart health interventions and conclude with the perspectives for community-based interventions in future research and practice.
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