Community interventions and AIDS / / edited by Edison J. Trickett, Willo Pequegnat

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910817874003321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: New York, : Oxford University Press, 2005
• ISBN: 0-19-028956-2; 0-19-773504-5; 1-280-50311-4; 0-19-803633-7; 1-4237-3387-8
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (313 p.)
• Collana: Oxford scholarship online
• Altri autori (Persone): TrickettEdison J; PequegnatWillo
• Disciplina: 362.196/9792
• Soggetti: AIDS (Disease) - Prevention; Community health services
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Formerly CIP.; Previously issued in print: 2005.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Community interventions and HIV/AIDS: affecting the community context / Edison J. Trickett -- Multiple pathways to community-level impacts in HIV prevention: implications for conceptualization, implementation, and evaluation of interventions / Hirokazu Yoshikawa ... [et al.] -- Narrative insurrections: HIV, circulating knowledges, and local resistances / Eric Stewart and Julian Rappaport -- The state of the art in community HIV prevention interventions / Jeffrey A. Kelly -- Social network approaches to HIV prevention: implications to community impact and sustainability / Carl A. Latkin and Amy R. Knowlton -- Rapid assessment strategies for public health: promise and problems / Robert T. Trotter II and Merrill Singer -- The Hartford model of AIDS practice/research collaboration / Merrill Singer and Margaret Weeks -- Sustainability in HIV prevention research / Jean J. Schensul -- Transferring HIV prevention technology to community-based organizations: how can HIV prevention scientists play an effective role in practice? / Robin Lin Miller and George J. Greene -- ; Community HIV prevention interventions: theoretical and methodological considerations / Ralph J. Diclemente, Richard A. Crosby, and Gina M. Wingood --; The tyranny of clinical trials: alternative designs for assessing individual and community level impact / Bruce Rapkin with Edison J. Trickett -- Toward the next generation of AIDS interventions with community impact / Willo Pequegnat.
• Sommario/riassunto: Interventions with individuals at risk for HIV/AIDS have been shown to have a positive short-term impact. This book offers a framework based on an ecological approach to designing & implementing HIV/AIDS interventions with longer-term, community impact.