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Title: Community Capacity for Cancer Prevention.
Author : Journal of Health and Human Services Administration
Release Date : January 22, 2009
Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
Pages : * pages
Size : 279 KB

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INTRODUCTION Community capacity is the ability of a community to respond to needs of its residents. Strategic thinking about a neighborhood involves identifying characteristics of communities that affect the ability to address important social and public health problems (Goodman et al., 1998; A. J. Schulz et al., 2005). Capacity building is a process which enables proactive planning and implementation tailored to specialized neighborhood conditions (Cottrell, 1977; Fawcett et al., 1996; Poole, 1997). These concepts are frequently applied to health and health promotion generally, but they also can be important in thinking about prevention of specific diseases including cancer, diabetes and cardiovascular disease (Carlaw, Mittlemark, Bracht, and Luepker, 1984; Farquhar et al., 1985; Steckler, Orville, Eng, and Dawson, 1992; Stunkard, Feliz, Yopp, and Cohen, 1985).