Health promotion and disease prevention: secrets of success.
Successful health promotion programs impart knowledge, influence attitudes, and change behaviors. Essential program components are: needs assessment, organization, coalition-building, marketing, and location. Early intervention, family and peer involvement, individual attention, mentoring, repetition, and after-care are secrets of effective health promotion disease prevention programs.
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D006293:Health Promotion / Q000458:organization & administration / Q000592:standards*; D006801:Humans; D010934:Planning Techniques; D011322:Primary Prevention / Q000458:organization & administration / Q000592:standards*