Developing a collaborative community, academic, health department partnership for STD prevention: the Gonorrhea Community Action Project in Harlem.
Community interventions are rare in the field of sexually transmitted disease (STD) control and prevention. The goals of the Gonorrhea Community Action Project are to design and implement interventions for the reduction of gonorrhea in high-prevalence areas and to increase the appropriateness and effectiveness of STD care in the participating formative research and developing the interventions was the creation of a community-academic-health department collaborative partnership. Using a staged model, this article presents a case study of collaboration development in the community of Harlem, New York.
VanDevanter
Nancy
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Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University, New York, New York, USA.
Hennessy
Michael
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Howard
Joyce Moon
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Bleakley
Amy
A
Peake
Michele
M
Millet
Sarah
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Cohall
Alwyn
A
Levine
Deborah
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Weisfuse
Isaac
I
Fullilove
Robert
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D003151:Community Health Centers / Q000458:organization & administration*; D003299:Cooperative Behavior; D006069:Gonorrhea / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000517:prevention & control*; D006801:Humans; D009519:New York City / Q000453:epidemiology; D015995:Prevalence; D011314:Preventive Health Services / Q000458:organization & administration*; D016730:Program Development; D015980:Public Health Practice; D012581:Schools, Public Health / Q000458:organization & administration*