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August 2003, Vol 93, No. 8 | American Journal of Public Health 1201
© 2003 American Public Health Association

LETTER

ON RECONSIDERING COMMUNITY-BASED HEALTH PROMOTION

Lewis H. Kuller, MD, DrPH

Correspondence: Correspondence should be sent to Lewis H. Kuller, MD, DrPH, Department of Epidemiology, University of Pittsburgh, 130 North Bellefield Ave, Room 550, Pittsburgh, PA 15213 (e-mail: kullerl@edc.pitt.edu).

Because this article has no abstract, we have provided an extract of the first 100 words of the full text and any section headings.

Merzel and D’Afflitti are to be commended for their excellent overview of community-based health promotion studies.1 The human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) prevention studies are a model for possible successful community intervention programs. These "successful" community intervention programs to change HIV risk behavior are not unique. They represent the classic "shoe leather" epidemiological prevention approach for control of sexually transmitted diseases by identifying high-risk populations, mode of transmission of the disease, recruitment of local or neighborhood advocates, and a defined intervention strategy.

There have been previous successful community-based public health programs to control chronic diseases that serve as models for successful . . . [Full Text]






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