Settings and Issues.

First Cover -- Foreword -- Table of contents -- Settings -- Toward Healthy Families -- Table of Contents -- Healthy Families and Health Determinants: Key Conclusions from the research Literature -- Definitional Conundrums and Old Reruns -- The Triple Helix Framework of Healthy Families -- Genetic Inheritance/Predisposition and Family -- Life Chances: Surviving and Thriving -- Social Resources and Healthy Families -- Social Support: The BIG Effect -- Access to Health through Family -- Chains, Effects, and Amplification -- Policies, Programs, Projects, and Natural Experiments: Lessons on What Works and What Does not -- Summary of Success Stories -- Families as Actors as Well as Subjects: Lessons from History -- Families and Children "at Promise" -- Family Matters and the Family Matters Program -- Brighter Futures and Running in Place -- Miracle at Duke and Water -- Beyond Health Promotion: Is Family and Community ActionEnough? -- Policy Implications-Principles to Guide Government Action -- Policy Implications -- Principles to Guide Government Action for Healthy Families -- Strategic Targets That Require Policy Action -- Bibliography -- Schools, Mental Health and Life Quality -- Table of Contents -- Introduction -- Objectives -- School Efects on Student Outcomes -- Definitions-Cognitive and Noncognitive Domains of Child Functioning -- Relationship between Cognitive and Noncognitive Outcomes -- The Importance of Prevention -- Research Design Isues -- Study Design -- Choice of Student Outcomes and School Variables -- Sample of Schools Studied -- School Effects Defined as Progress over Time -- School Effects Studies -- Overview -- Effective Schools Model -- Review of Exemplary Studies -- Key Conclusions -- Stories and Lessons Learned -- Criteria for Selection of Stories -- Story Descriptors -- Five Stories -- Lessons Learned -- Policy Implications.

Principles to Guide the Actions of Governments-"Elements of Best Practice" -- The School Improvement Cycle -- Facilitating Factors and Barriers to Change -- The Role of Evaluation in Policy and Practice -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Creating Healthier Work Environments: A Critical Review of the Health Impacts of Workplace Change -- Table of Contents -- Context: the changing work environment and workers' health -- Workplace determinants of health -- Individual Lifestyle Factors -- Job Factors -- Organizational Factors at Unit or Firm Level -- External (Community, Regional, National, and Global) Influences -- The impact of efforts to improve workers' health -- Occupational Health and Safety -- Workplace Health Promotion -- Organizational Change -- Selection of case studies -- Description of Group A case studies -- Outcomes of Group A case studies -- Engstrom et al. (1995) -- Fiedler et al. (1984) -- Frank and Hackman (1975) -- Golembiewski et al. (1987) -- Heaney et al. (1993) -- Jackson (1983) -- Landsbergis and Vivona-Vaughan (1995) -- Pasmore and Friedlander (1982) -- Wall and Clegg (1981) -- Wall et al. (1986) -- Wall et al. (1990) -- Implications of Group A case studies -- Inherent Barriers to Organizational Change -- The Context: Employee Characteristics, Workplace Culture, Industrial Relations and the Macroeconomy -- Individual-, Task-, and Organizational-Level Interventions -- Participation -- Management Support -- Union-Employee Support -- Role of Research and the Difficulty of Doing Scientifically Conclusive Workplace Research -- Insights from Group B case studies -- Discussion -- Determinants of Health Addressed and Those Not Addressed -- Health Outcomes -- Methods of Evaluation -- Generalizability of Studies -- Barriers to the creation of healthier workplaces -- Collective Bargaining -- Legislative Environment -- Economic Policies.

Market Framework -- Recommendations -- Firm-Level Recommendations -- Government-Level Recommendations -- Research Agency-Level Recommendations -- Bibliography -- Appendices -- Appendix A -- Appendix B -- Appendix C -- Balance as a Method to Promote Healthy Indigenous Communities -- Table of contents -- Preface -- Introduction -- Indigenous health issues -- The health determinants framework -- Socioeconomic Forces -- Psychological Forces -- Physical Forces -- Cultural Forces -- Overview -- Métis communities reclaiming health -- Cultural Vitalization and Sharing in Red Deer, Alberta -- Métis Addictions Council of Saskatchewan -- Community Healing in Fishing Lake, Alberta -- Movement in Winnipeg -- Children: our greatest resource -- Hollow Water Holistic Healing -- Why the System Failed Lester Desjarlais -- Rays of hope from the north -- Policy implications -- Personal Balance -- Community Action -- Institutional and Governmental Action -- Balance between Groups -- Community Action -- Institutional and Governmental Action -- Balance within the Group -- Community Action -- Institutional and Governmental Action -- Balance in Human Service Delivery -- Community Action -- Institutional and Governmental Action -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Community Solidarity and Local Development: A New Perspective for Building Sociopolitical Compromise -- Table of contents -- Introduction -- The isues -- Local Development and the Emergence of Community Economic Development Corporations: Literature Survey -- Theoretical and Political Aspects of Local Development -- From Issues to Practice -- Local Development and Health -- Example of a Success Story: The Regroupement pour la Relance Économique et Sociale du Sud-Ouest de Montréal (RESO) -- Actions on Nonmedical Determinants of Health -- Reasons for the Initiative -- The Actors -- Analysis of the Results -- Replicability.

Funding -- Evaluation -- Other Examples -- Policy Implications -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Environmental Health:From Concept to Reality -- Table of contents -- The issue -- The Determinants of Health -- Environmental Health -- Air Pollution -- Water Pollution -- Soil Pollution -- Scientific Uncertainty -- Health Promotion -- Success stories -- Children Contaminated by Lead -- Actions on Nonmedical Determinants of Health -- Reasons for the Initiative -- Actors -- Analysis of the Results -- Replicability -- Funding -- Evaluation -- MMT in Gasoline -- Actions on Nonmedical Determinants of Health -- Reasons for the Initiative -- Actors -- Analysis of the Results -- Replicability -- Funding -- Evaluation -- Rivière aux Pins -- Actions on Nonmedical Determinants of Health -- Reasons for the Initiative -- Actors -- Analysis of the Results -- Replicability -- Funding -- Evaluation -- LaSalle Landfill Site -- Actions on Nonmedical Determinants of Health -- Reasons for the Initiative -- Actors -- Analysis of the Results -- Replicability -- Funding -- Evaluation -- Recommendations -- Bibliography -- Issues -- Preventing Violence: School- andCommunity- Based Strategies -- Table of Contents -- Introduction -- The Impact of Violence on Health and Safety -- Key conclusions from the literature -- Wife Assault -- Children Who Witness Violence: Wife Assault -- Children Who Witness and Experience Community Violence -- Adult Male Victims of Violence -- Dating Violence -- Violence in Schools -- Primary Prevention -- Success stories in the prevention of violence against women and other forms of violence -- Primary Prevention Programs -- ASAP: A School-Based Antiviolence Program -- The Olweus Norwegian Antibullying Program -- Other Evaluated Prevention Programs -- Conclusions from This Review of Violence Prevention Programs -- Secondary Prevention Programs.

Interests at stake in promoting or impeding change -- Policy implications -- Policy Implications for Primary Prevention -- Secondary Prevention -- Conclusions -- Bibliography -- Suicide in Children, Adolescents and Seniors: Key Findings and Policy Implications -- Table of contents -- Introduction -- Children and Suicidal Behaviour-Risk Conditions -- Social and Economic Environments -- Individual Capacity and Coping -- Health Services -- Summary of Key Findings -- Adolescents and Suicidal Behaviour-Risk Conditions -- Social and Economic Environments -- Physical Environment -- Personal Health Practices -- Individual Capacity and Coping -- Health Services -- Summary of Key Findings -- The Elderly and Suicidal Behaviour-Risk Conditions -- Social and Economic Environments -- Physical Environment -- Personal Health Practices -- Individual Capacity and Coping -- Health Services -- Summary of Key Findings -- Noteworthy Programs -- Judging the Success of Suicide Prevention Efforts -- The School Transition Environment Program -- Alaska's Community-Based Suicide Prevention Project -- The Gatekeeper Model for the Isolated, At-Risk Elderly -- Suicide-Action Montreal Program for Widowers -- The High/Scope Perry Preschool Program -- A Postvention Effort in New South Wales, Australia -- Implications for Policy -- Social Issues/Environments -- Training -- Service Delivery -- Research and Evaluation -- Bibliography -- Appendix -- Living with a Disability in Canada: Toward Autonomy and Integration -- Table of contents -- Introduction -- Defining Disability -- Disability in Canada -- Shifting paradigms of disability -- A Brief Look Back -- Broadened View of Knowledge -- Shift from Treatment to Promotion -- Key Elements of the New Paradigm -- Key conclusions -- Independent Living: Concept and Movement -- From Institutions to Community: Reallocating Resources.

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