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CHAPTER 8:
APPLICATIONS IN COMMUNITY SETTINGS - Archived Headlines
Atlanta area initiative to increase van-pooling
(ATLANTA, Atlanta Journal Constitution, July 4, 1999). Marketing research found that 36%
of people claimed they would be much more likely to use van-pooling if they could get a
"guaranteed ride home" in case of an emergency. In the time they have instituted
the new system, only 1% of all riders have used the "guaranteed ride home,"
which was reassuring to employers, while overall readership rose significantly. Employers
are now cooperating in promoting the van pooling. For the news story, go to:
http://www.ptsnorth.com/magazine/pn1201_traffic.shtml.
For the consumer research, go to:
http:/www.commuteconnections.com
Paris' first no-smoking bar opens. (Paris, Evening
Standard, June 8, 1999). - The first bar in Paris to go completely no-smoking has seen its
turnover drop by 90% in a week. However, owner Xavier Denamur, himself a smoker, is
sticking with the new policy, saying, "I thought it was time for a no-smoking bar.
Fair enough, we've lost in the short term, but we intend to build up a new
clientele." His business is a bar bookshop and something of an intellectual hang-out.
Social and environmental interventions to reduce HIV incidence.
An example of the application of the PRECEDE-PROCEED planning model and process is
inherent in an announcement in June 1999 of a US Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention (CDC) competition for a cooperative agreement grant program to identify social
and environmental interventions to reduce HIV incidence. This program addresses the
"Healthy People 2000" priority areas of Educational and Community-Based Programs
(Objective: Increase years of healthy life to at least 65 years) and HIV Infection
(Objective: Confine annual incidence of diagnosed AIDS cases to no more than 43 per
100,000).
This announcement seeks research applications to identify social and
environmental interventions that could further reduce HIV incidence. Social and
environmental factors that might be addressed include, but are not limited to: housing,
legal issues, stigma, employment, physical environments of communities, and family and
peer support systems. The purpose of this research is not simply to add to the list of
social and environmental conditions that may facilitate HIV transmission, but to also
systematically examine the acceptability and feasibility of interventions to change the
conditions, and to estimate the impact that the interventions might have on HIV incidence.
These research studies will: (1) determine who is acquiring HIV in the
community (use of relevant existing data is encouraged); (2) identify and document
evidence of social and environmental factors that contribute to HIV incidence (using
primary and secondary data analyses); (3) determine which social and environmental factors
are amenable to specific interventions; and (4) assess the acceptability and feasibility
of the identified interventions, and estimate the impact of the interventions on HIV
incidence in a defined study population or geographic area. An important aspect of the
study will be the participation of the affected community to identify their assessments of
associations between social conditions and HIV infection, and of the acceptability and
feasibility of proposed interventions. For more detail:
http://www.hivdent.org/cdc/cdcnsaeitrh0699.htm
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TV Brings Eating Disorders - Fiji. (BBC News, May 20,
1999). Fiji, a nation that has traditionally cherished the fuller figure, has been struck
by an outbreak of eating disorders since the arrival of television in 1995, a study has
shown.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/347637.stm
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