The organization of community disease prevention services: approaches to preventing lung cancer in the Los Angeles Basin.
The UCLA Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center initiated a broadly based community program with the goal to reduce lung cancer incidence and mortality in the Los Angeles Basin (LAB). Representatives from the medical and science communities participated with representatives from the business, legal, and legislative sectors of LAB in a number of workshops over an 18-month period. The objectives of the workshops were to involve as many community interests as feasible to identify the issues related to the lung cancer problem and to mount a strategic and broadly based plan to achieve the stated goal. More than 70 individuals participated in this effort. The principal topics identified and developed related to "Smoking and Youth," "Smoking in High Risk Adults," "Smoking in the Workplace," and "Occupational Exposures." The results of this protracted interaction and planning effort are now in evidence in a variety of action programs and intervention research across this large geographic region.
D002140:California; D003153:Community Health Services / Q000458:organization & administration*; D006266:Health Education; D006801:Humans; D007878:Legislation as Topic; D008175:Lung Neoplasms / Q000401:mortality / Q000517:prevention & control*; D009786:Occupational Health Services; D010353:Patient Education as Topic; D012574:Schools; D000074606:Smoking Prevention