Tailored Interventions in Public Health

The authors present a program of research that focuses on reducing health disparities among African American populations through innovative health communication and health promotion interventions. Research on tailored communications ranges from investigating efficacy, manipulating communication variables, and comparing tailored print versus other state-of-the-art intervention modalities to integrating tailored materials into public health interventions based on a socioecological model. Examples from other research, as well as advantages and disadvantages of these approaches, are discussed. The purpose of the overall research program is to develop effective and cost-effective health communications for promoting health behavior change that also are culturally relevant and potentially sustainable in communities

Behavior change · Environmental health · Health communication · Health equity · Health promotion · Intervention (counseling) · Modalities · Political science · Psychological intervention · Public health · Public health interventions · Public relations · Social science · Sociology · Community Health and Development · Food Security and Health in Diverse Populations · Medicine · Nursing · Psychology · Smoking Behavior and Cessation · Social Psychology · Gerontology

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