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Dissemination of Community Health Promotion Programs: The Fargo‐Moorhead Heart Health Program
Author(s) -
Murray David M.
Publication year - 1986
Publication title -
journal of school health
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.851
H-Index - 86
eISSN - 1746-1561
pISSN - 0022-4391
DOI - 10.1111/j.1746-1561.1986.tb05776.x
Subject(s) - health promotion , health educators , dissemination , health education , promotion (chess) , information dissemination , process (computing) , community health , public relations , medicine , disease prevention , distribution (mathematics) , medical education , business , environmental health , public health , political science , nursing , computer science , world wide web , mathematical analysis , mathematics , politics , law , operating system
Dissemination often is the neglected phase of the development and distribution cycle. While attention has focused on developing and testing new health education and health promotion programs, relatively little effort has been placed on studying how the programs can be disseminated. This paper reviews the dissemination process, identifies factors critical to successful dissemination, uses examples from a community‐based heart disease prevention study to illustrate how health promotion programs can be disseminated across a community, and suggests ways these methods might be applied to a community‐based approach to adolescent drug use prevention.