A strategy for improving community effectiveness of HIV/AIDS intervention design: The Community Readiness Model in the Caribbean

Substance Use and Misuse

Volumn 42, Issue 10, 2007, Pages 1579-1592

  McCoy, H Virginia ^a   Malow, Robert ^a   Edwards, Ruth W ^b   Thurland, Anne ^c   Rosenberg, Rhonda ^a  

^a FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences   (United States)

^c US Virgin Islands Department of Health   (Virgin Islands (U.S.))

Author keywords

Collaboration; Community development; Community readiness model; Dimensions of risk; Prevention; Risk factors; Social action

Indexed keywords

ACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY SYNDROME; ARTICLE; CENTRAL AMERICA; COMMUNITY; ECONOMIC ASPECT; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; INFECTION PREVENTION; POLITICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR; SOCIAL ASPECT; VIRGIN ISLANDS (U.S.);

ACQUIRED IMMUNODEFICIENCY SYNDROME; CARIBBEAN REGION; COMMUNITY HEALTH SERVICES; COOPERATIVE BEHAVIOR; DATA COLLECTION; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HIV INFECTIONS; HUMANS; MODELS, ORGANIZATIONAL; PRIMARY PREVENTION; PROGRAM DEVELOPMENT; PROGRAM EVALUATION; RISK-TAKING; VIRGIN ISLANDS OF THE UNITED STATES;

EID: 35148895931     PISSN: 10826084     EISSN: 15322491     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10826080701212535     Document Type: Article

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