Promoting health at the community level / edited by Douglas V. Easterling, Kaia M. Gallagher, Dora G. Lodwick.

1. Introduction-- 2.The Colorado Healthy Communities Initiative: Communities defining and addressing health -- 3.The community indicators project: tracking health and quality of life -- 4.The teen pregnancy prevention 2000 initiative: community building through consensus-- 5.The community action for health promotion initiative: building capacity in small, focused, community-based health promotin programs -- 6. The volunteers for rural sensions initiative: leveraging community resources to meet the needs of seniors -- 7. The Colorado School Health Education Initiative: promoting school health education through capacity building-- 8. Home visitation learning groups: community-based professioinals discovering best practices -- 9. What do the case studies say about community-based health promotion?-- 10. Practical lessons for promoting health at the community level.

Providing a systematic examination of community-based health promotion, this text offers nine case studies which illustrate what community-driven health promotion means in practice, evaluates its potential for achieving improvements in the health of local populations & presents strategies for the future.