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Download full textJason, Leonard A. – 1979
A high priority area for behavioral community psychologists involves working to strengthen informal support systems within communities. A collaborative effort between a community group and academic based psychologists focusses on a community problem--dog litter in an urban area. An original demonstration project was used to influence the political…
Descriptors: Behavior Modification, Community Action, Community Involvement, Comprehensive Programs
Join Together, Boston, MA. – 2000
Media advocacy is an environmental strategy that can be used to support alcohol and other drug prevention and policy development efforts. It helps shift the focus from understanding public health issues as individual problems to understanding them as social conditions that require collective behavior changes. Successful media advocacy uses the…
Descriptors: Advocacy, Alcohol Abuse, Behavior Modification, Community Action
Hatch, Stephen, Ed.; Kickbusch, Ilona, Ed. – 1983
This book brings together 24 contributions (from 13 European countries) about the role of self-help in the overall pattern of health care, dealing with both the practical and the theoretical: (1) "A Reorientation of Health Care?" (Ilona Kickbusch and Stephen Hatch); (2) "Self-help Groups in Primary Health Care" (David…
Descriptors: Allied Health Personnel, Behavior Modification, Community Action, Foreign Countries
