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Appendix A: Glossary
Pages 139-142

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... Community-based activity is an activity that involves members of the affected community in the planning, development, implementation, and evaluation of programs and strategies. Community-based prevention, as defined for purposes of this report, takes a population-based approach to programs and policies oriented to preventing the onset of disease, stopping or slowing the progress of disease, reducing or eliminating the negative consequences of disease, increasing healthful behaviors that result in improvements in health and well-being, or decreasing disparities that result in an inequitable distribution of health.
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... These elements include civic engagement, local leadership development, community representation, trust, skill building, and community history, among others. Community well-being includes social norms, how people relate to each other and to their surroundings, and how much investment they are willing to make in themselves and in the people around them.
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... . Strategy is the method through which programs are implemented, such as television advertisements warning of the dangers of smoking, construction of a bike path, or conducting disease management workshops in churches.
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... American Journal of Public Health 93:366-369.
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Key Terms

  • built environment
  • social marketing
  • health promotion
  • community process
  • marketing seeks

  • recreational spaces
  • skill building
  • exercise control
  • including biology
  • process refers

  • generate community
  • negative consequences
  • marketing principles
  • management workshops
  • people relate

  • empowerment refers
  • collective life
  • influence health
  • decreasing disparities
  • ecological model

  • moves beyond
  • healthful behaviors
  • preventive intervention
  • elements influencing
  • primarily based

  • sell products
  • target audience
  • involve services
  • increasing healthful
  • policies oriented


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