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Health Promotion and Community Health Sciences

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Founding Director and Co-Principal Investigator, Center for Community Health Development

# overview
Community Health Development is a domain at the intersection of Community Development, Health Promotion, and Public Health. As Founding Director and Co-PI of the Center for Community Health Development my research interests focus on learning how to more effectively increase community problem-solving capacity. Using the Partnership Approach, a socio-ecological framework and social determinants of health perspective, our projects examine factors influencing population health status and intervention strategies to improve health status and access to care. A key component of these activities are community health status assessments both as a data collection tool and community organizing focal point.

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Syndemics; Multimorbidity; Health Inequity; Health Disparity; Health Promotion; Health Policy; Global Health; Meta-knowledge Analysis

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Unchr, United Nations High Commissioner For Refugees

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Patient Protection And Affordable Care Act

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Outcome And Process Assessment, Health Care

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Patient Protection And Affordable Care Act

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Pdmp, Prescription Drug Monitoring Program

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5201 Applied And Developmental Psychology

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Patients' Persistence In Asking Questions

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California State University, Northridge - (Northridge, California, United States)

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University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill - (Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States)

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The Social Reconnaissance Approach for Understanding Womens Health

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Healthy aging begins with the fetus - Reply

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Immigrant health access in Texas: policy, rhetoric, and fear in the Trump era.

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Aggregate Health Status: a benchmark index for community health.

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Global research on syndemics: a meta-knowledge analysis (2001-2020).

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Assessment of the inclusivity of the national CLAS standards enhancement initiative of bisexual identities

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SOCIAL-SCIENCE THEORY IN HEALTH-EDUCATION - TIME FOR A NEW MODEL

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Assessing healthful eating among community dwelling rural older adults using self-reported fruit and vegetable consumption via a community-wide mail-out health status assessment.

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Community health assessment: a closer look

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Navigating healthcare systems before and after resettlement: Exploring experiences and recommendations for improvement from the perspectives of a Bhutanese refugee community.

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Health-related quality of life among Mexican Americans living in colonias at the Texas-Mexico border.

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Introduction: Why a special issue on "community Health Assessment"?

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Community Food Resources and Chronic Disease: Objective Measures and the Perceptions of Older Adults in Rural Areas

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Expanding the Nomological Network of Religious-Based Constructs: A Structural Equation Model using the Religion, Aging, and Health Survey

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A community view of smoking cessation counseling in the practices of physicians and dentists.

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Facilitators and Barriers When Conducting Adult Health Programs Within the African American Church: A Systematic Review.

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A Mixed-Methods Approach to Understanding Community Participation in Community Health Needs Assessments.

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SPECIAL ISSUE - COMMUNITY COALITIONS FOR HEALTH PROMOTION - INTRODUCTION

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Using a Community Health Development Framework to Increase Community Capacity: A Multiple Case Study

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Ethical dilemmas in health promotion: an introduction.

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Health education intervention strategies: recommendations for future research.

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Community Capacity: Theory and Application

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Science reporting in Accra, Ghana: sources, barriers and motivational factors.

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Factors that influence the intention to use mobile phone caller tunes for patient reporting of adverse drug reactions: a qualitative study.

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Community health development: a strategy for reinventing America's health care system one community at a time.

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Anxiety and depressive symptoms and missing breast cancer and cervical screening: results from Brazos valley community health survey.

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Assessing depression in rural communities.

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Global research on syndemics: a meta-knowledge analysis (2001-2020)

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Depression and health-related quality of life among persons with sensory disabilities in a health professional shortage area.

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Community health assessment opportunities and challenges in the 21st century: Implications for professional development

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Beyond the integration of public health and medicine.

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Process Evaluations of Traditional, Group-Based Diabetes Self-Management Education and Support Programs: A systematic review of the literature

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PROSPERO International prospective register of systematic reviews

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HEALTH-EDUCATION RESEARCH - THEORY AND PRACTICE - FUTURE-DIRECTIONS

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Residential rurality and oral health disparities: influences of contextual and individual factors.

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The effects of ethnicity, sex and father's occupation on heart health knowledge and nutrition behavior of school children: the Texas youth health awareness survey.

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Sociodemographic and healthcare characteristics of Colonia residents: the role of life stage in predicting health risks and diabetes status in a disadvantaged Hispanic population.

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The evolving role of partnerships in addressing community public health issues: policy and ethical implications.

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The basics of community health development

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Levels and correlates of exercise in a border mexican american population.

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Utilization of an interorganizational network analysis to evaluate the development of community capacity among a community-academic partnership.

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Demonstrating excellence in the scholarship of practice-based service for public health.

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Common and critical components among community health assessment and community health improvement planning models

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The future of science journalism in Ghana: evidence-based perspectives

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Nonprofit hospitals' approach to community health needs assessment.

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The political and policy implications of a rating system of community capacity to improve population health.

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Practitioners' use of theory: examples from a workgroup.

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Differences in the attitudes towards the opioid crisis between metropolitan and rural counties in Central Texas: Secondary data analysis using cross-sectional data.

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Social socience theory in health education: time for a new model?

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Community Capacity Concept Theory and Methods

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The impact of a communitywide smoke-free ordinance on smoking among older adults.

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Health assessment in rural communities: a critical organizing and capacity-building tool

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CDC's Prevention Research Centers and Community Health Development

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Body Mass Index and Breast and Cervical Cancer Screening.

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Rural-urban differences in estimated life expectancy associated with neighborhood-level cumulative social and environmental determinants.

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Community-based participatory research and community health development.

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Measures of Access to Primary Health Care: Perceptions and Reality

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Community Capacity and Teleconference Counseling in Rural Texas

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Age groupings make a difference in correlates of moderate intensity physical activity among Brazos Valley adults

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Community Health Needs Assessment: Potential for Population Health Improvement.

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Global research on syndemics: A meta-knowledge analysis (2001-2020)

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The effect of health-related information seeking and financial strain on medication nonadherence among patients with diabetes and/or hypertension in central Texas

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Determinants of Intention to Use Mobile Phone Caller Tunes to Promote Voluntary Blood Donation: Cross-Sectional Study (Preprint)

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Determinants of Intention to Use Mobile Phone Caller Tunes to Promote Voluntary Blood Donation: Cross-Sectional Study.

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A Personal History of the Evolution of Health Status Assessment.

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The SF-12 as a population health measure: an exploratory examination of potential for application.

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Community coalitions for health promotion: summary and further reflections.

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The business of health promotion: ethical issues and professional responsibilities.

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Texas A&M Health Science Center; Health Behavior; 1266 TAMUS

# organizations[]
Health Promotion and Community Health Sciences

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Health Promotion and Community Health Sciences@en-US

# etdChairOf[].label
Appiah, Bernard (2013-12). Promoting Blood Donation in Sub-Saharan Africa: Role of Culture and Interventions. Doctoral Dissertation.

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Salinas, Manisha Gautam (2017-06). Examining the Community Health Needs of Bhutanese Refugees in the United States. Doctoral Dissertation.