Using a Qualitative Approach to Develop an Evaluation Data Set for Community-Based Health Promotion Programs Addressing Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities

2011 ◽  
Vol 12 (6) ◽  
pp. 912-922 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mark C. Edberg ◽  
Kristen Corey ◽  
Marcia Cohen
Keyword(s):  
Health Promotion ◽  
Health Disparities ◽  
Data Collection ◽  
Reporting System ◽  
Community Level ◽  
Community Based ◽  
Data Set ◽  
Web Based ◽  
Data Reporting ◽  
Health Promotion Programs

Racial and ethnic disparities in health have increasingly become a central focus of health promotion efforts. At the community level, however, collecting data and evaluating these programs has been a challenge because of the diversity of populations, community contexts, and health issues as well as a range of capacities for conducting evaluation. This article outlines a qualitative research process used to develop a Web-based standard program performance data reporting system for programs funded by the U.S. Office of Minority Health (OMH), but generally applicable to community-based health promotion programs addressing health disparities. The “core-and-module” data set, known as the Uniform Data Set (UDS), is a Web-based system and is used as the programwide reporting system for OMH. The process for developing the UDS can be used by any agency, locality, or organization to develop a tailored data collection system allowing comparison across projects via an activity-based typology around which data reporting is structured. The UDS model enables the collection of grounded data reflecting community-level steps necessary to address disparities as well as a reporting structure that can guide data collection based on broader frameworks now emerging that specify criteria for measuring progress toward the elimination of health disparities.

Community-based health promotion programs for people with disabilities: Mapping the literature landscape

2009 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. e14-e15 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jana J. Peterson ◽  
Charles Drum ◽  
Gloria L. Krahn ◽  
Susan Wingenfeld ◽  
Tom W. Seekins
Keyword(s):  
Health Promotion ◽  
People With Disabilities ◽  
Community Based ◽  
Health Promotion Programs

The Shape up Challenge: A Community-Based Worksite Exercise Competition

1996 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 23-34 ◽  
Author(s):  
Susan M. Blake ◽  
Carl J. Caspersen ◽  
John Finnegan ◽  
Richard A. Crow ◽  
Maurice B. Mittlemark ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Health Promotion ◽  
Health Program ◽  
Employee Participation ◽  
Behavioral Risk ◽  
Participation Rates ◽  
Community Based ◽  
Exercise Maintenance ◽  
Health Promotion Programs ◽  
Work Units ◽  
Heart Health Program

Purpose. To assess organizational and employee participation during three community-wide worksite exercise competitions in two communities. Design. A one-group, posttest-only design was used. Lack of controls, exercise baseline, and the short-term nature of the interventions were limitations. Setting. The Minnesota Heart Health Program conducted annual exercise campaigns between 1982 and 1989 within three intervention communities to reduce behavioral risk for cardiovascular disease. The Shape Up Challenge was a worksite exercise competition designed, in conjunction with other campaign activities, to increase levels of physical activity. Subjects. A total of 119 participating companies in two Minnesota communities, and 17,626 employees within these worksites, composed the subjects in this study. Intervention. Eligible worksites were invited to participate in a month-long competition during which employees recorded minutes spent daily in aerobic activities. Incentives were established to promote intragroup cooperation and intergroup competition. Companies competed for awards that were based on average minutes of exercise per employee versus per participant. Measures. Numbers of companies recruited and participating, campaign activities, minutes of exercise, and costs were recorded on implementation logs. Companies completed surveys describing business type, number and sex of employees, existing health promotion programs, and perceived benefits of participation. Results. Of the 365 companies invited to participate, 33 % participated (range 15 % to 50%). Participating companies were more likely than nonparticipating companies to offer other health promotion programs and perceived greater benefits from participation. Women and smaller companies had significantly greater participation rates than men and larger companies. Average employee participation rates ranged from as high as 84% in smaller organizations to as low as 16% as organization size increased. Conclusions. Community-based worksite exercise competitions appear to be a viable strategy for promoting employee exercise, particularly in smaller companies. Group-based contingencies applied in natural work units may facilitate employee participation. Further research is needed to assess the relative efficacy of this approach, compare alternative incentives, and identify strategies to enhance exercise maintenance after the intervention has ceased.

Achieving Population Health Impacts Through Health Promotion Programs Offered by Community-based Organizations

Medical Care ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol Publish Ahead of Print ◽  
Author(s):  
Amanda L. Brewster ◽  
Traci L. Wilson ◽  
Leslie A. Curry ◽  
Suzanne R. Kunkel
Keyword(s):  
Health Promotion ◽  
Population Health ◽  
Health Impacts ◽  
Community Based ◽  
Community Based Organizations ◽  
Health Promotion Programs

Community-based men’s health promotion programs: eight lessons learnt and their caveats

2019 ◽  
Vol 35 (5) ◽  
pp. 1230-1240 ◽  
Author(s):  
John L Oliffe ◽  
Emma Rossnagel ◽  
Joan L Bottorff ◽  
Suzanne K Chambers ◽  
Cristina Caperchione ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Health Promotion ◽  
Health Inequities ◽  
Men’S Health ◽  
Men's Health ◽  
Community Based ◽  
Lessons Learnt ◽  
Community Based Programs ◽  
Health Promotion Programs ◽  
Current Article ◽  
Future Work

Abstract Long-standing commentaries about men’s reticence for accessing clinical medical services, along with the more recent recognition of men’s health inequities, has driven work in community-based men’s health promotion. Indeed, the 2000s have seen rapid growth in community-based programs targeting men, and across this expanse of innovative work, experiential and empirical insights afford some important lessons learnt, and caveats to guide existing and future efforts. The current article offers eight lessons learnt regarding the design, content, recruitment, delivery, evaluation and scaling of community-based men’s health promotion programs. Design lessons include the need to address social determinants of health and men’s health inequities, build activity-based programming, garner men’s permission and affirmation to shift masculine norms, and integrate content to advance men’s health literacy. Also detailed are lessons learnt about men-friendly spaces, recruitment and retention strategies, the need to incrementally execute program evaluations, and the limits for program sustainability and scaling. Drawing from diverse community-based programs to illustrate the lessons learnt, caveats are also detailed to contextualize and caution some aspects of the lessons that are shared. The express aim of discussing lessons learnt and their caveats, reflected in the purpose of the current article, is to guide existing and future work in the ever growing field of community-based men’s health promotion.

scholarly journals Beyond Workers’ Compensation

2013 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 45-53 ◽  
Author(s):  
John L. Oliffe ◽  
Christina S. E. Han
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Health Promotion ◽  
Job Insecurity ◽  
Indirect Costs ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Mental Health Promotion ◽  
Community Based ◽  
Work Related ◽  
Workplace Mental Health ◽  
Health Promotion Programs

The mental health of men is an important issue with significant direct and indirect costs emerging from work-related depression and suicide. Although the merits of men’s community-based and workplace mental health promotion initiatives have been endorsed, few programs are mandated or formally evaluated and reported on. Conspicuously absent also are gender analyses detailing connections between masculinities and men’s work-related depression and suicide on which to build men-centered mental health promotion programs. This article provides an overview of four interconnected issues, (a) masculinities and men’s health, (b) men and work, (c) men’s work-related depression and suicide, and (d) men’s mental health promotion, in the context of men’s diverse relationships to work (including job insecurity and unemployment). Based on the review, recommendations are made for advancing the well-being of men who are in as well as of those out of work.

Cognitive Health Promotion Program for Community-Dwelling Seniors: Who Are We Reaching?

2018 ◽  
Vol 39 (6) ◽  
pp. 588-600 ◽  
Author(s):  
Agathe Lorthios-Guilledroit ◽  
Manon Parisien ◽  
Kareen Nour ◽  
Baptiste Fournier ◽  
Danielle Guay ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Health Promotion ◽  
Target Population ◽  
Community Dwelling ◽  
Living Alone ◽  
Health Promotion Program ◽  
Lifestyle Behaviors ◽  
Community Based ◽  
Cognitive Health ◽  
Health Lifestyle ◽  
Health Promotion Programs

This exploratory study examines the reach of Jog Your Mind, a multifactorial community-based program promoting cognitive vitality among seniors with no known cognitive impairment. The aim was to determine whether the program successfully reached its target population and to compare the characteristics of participants (sociodemographic, health, lifestyle, attitudes, and cognitive profile) with the general population of seniors. Twenty-three community organizations recruited 294 community-dwelling seniors willing to participate in the program. Descriptive analyses revealed that the participants were mostly Canadian-born educated women living alone. Participants’ health profile and lifestyle behaviors were fairly similar to those of seniors in Québec and Canada. A large proportion of the participants were concerned about their memory. These results suggest that the program did not attract many hard-to-reach members of the population and reached seniors who may have had some cognitive challenges. Cues to action for improving the reach of cognitive health promotion programs are discussed.

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