Participants were recruited for the study from the Yale Pediatric Obesity Clinic as part of a community-wide program to increase screening for IGT in obese children and adolescents being cared for in community general pediatric practices in the New Haven, CT, area.
To determine the effect of a community hospital-wide program enabling nurses and prehospital personnel to mobilize institutional resources for the treatment of patients with nontraumatic shock.
As they looked at the problem, the behavior team realized they needed to implement a community-wide reform program.
In 1992 a community-wide screening program was initiated in a remote Aboriginal community in Australia's Northern Territory.
In the present report we apply a novel approach, using geo-maps, to analyze participation in a community-wide screening program for AF and its geographical (neighborhood area) relation to cardiovascular risk and immigrant group status.
This could be done by community wide effort to develop training and certification components as part of the caBIG™ program.
Another site, the One Book project (www.loc.gov/loc/cfbook/one-book.html), tracks community-wide reading programs (that is, when a public library chooses a book that everyone in town is supposed to read at the same time).
This approach will aid in appropriate management of risk factors and mitigating lead poisoning through community-wide awareness programs.
It contributes additional findings to the limited research on sustainability of community-wide PA programs available in the literature [ 9, 10].
Since there was no concurrent improvement in local environmental conditions during this time, it is possible that the continuing decline in Trail blood lead levels has been at least partly due to community-wide intervention programs.
Future sustainability studies of community-wide PA programs could facilitate the spread of best practices for various settings by documenting adaptations and whether these adaptations retain essential behaviour change elements [ 7, 14].
