Reflections on community-based population health intervention and evaluation for obesity and chronic disease prevention: The Healthy Alberta communities project

International Journal of Public Health

Volumn 55, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 679-686

  Raine, Kim D ^a   Plotnikoff, Ronald ^b   Nykiforuk, Candace ^a   Deegan, Heather ^a   Hemphill, Eric ^a   Storey, Kate ^a   Schopflocher, Donald ^a   Veugelers, Paul ^a   Wild, T Cameron ^a   Ohinmaa, Arto ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEWCASTLE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Capacity building; Community interventions; Ecological models; Evaluation; Health promotion; Obesity; Population health

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CANADA; CHRONIC DISEASE; COMMUNITY CARE; ECONOMICS; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; OBESITY; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; RESEARCH;

ALBERTA; CHRONIC DISEASE; COMMUNITY NETWORKS; HUMANS; OBESITY; RESEARCH;

EID: 79951948987     PISSN: 16618556     EISSN: 1420911X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00038-010-0187-7     Document Type: Article

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