Background Cigarette smoking is one of the leading causes of preventable death in the
world. Decisions to smoke are often made within a broad social context and therefore …

Background: A systematic review characterised and synthesised applications of the
Community Readiness Tool (CRT) and synthesised quantitative results for readiness …

Tourism has become an important tool for development in rural, remote and peripheral
regions in the last 50 years. However, in many places, tourism has failed to produce the …

Although much of the discussion of innovation focuses on new products and technologies,
all innovation is based on challenging existing assumptions and ways of thinking. This …

This chapter examines community capacity building as a precondition for any activity
including tourism development, and only if tourism development is chosen as an option for …

Capacity building for communities has become increasingly important since the 1980s as
implementing agencies seek to realize sustainable impacts from development assistance to …

A safe supply of drinking water is a cornerstone of public health and community well-being.
Complacency among those responsible for the provision of safe drinking water (eg, water …

Objectives. Community-based models have become increasingly prominent in prevention,
and have special relevance for suicide prevention in circumpolar Indigenous communities. It …

BACKGROUND: Community capacity building is a promising approach in reducing
childhood obesity. The objective was to determine changes in capacity over a 3year …

To build on a growing interest in community-based obesity prevention programs, methods
are needed for matching intervention strategies to local needs and assets. We used the …