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Kenneth R. McLeroy
Researcher at Texas A&M University
Publications - 118
Citations - 13685
Kenneth R. McLeroy is an academic researcher from Texas A&M University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Health promotion & Public health. The author has an hindex of 38, co-authored 116 publications receiving 12446 citations. Previous affiliations of Kenneth R. McLeroy include Oregon Health & Science University & University of Oregon.
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An Ecological Perspective on Health Promotion Programs
TL;DR: An ecological model for health promotion is proposed which focuses on both individual and social environmental factors as targets for health promotions and addresses the importance of interventions directed at changing interpersonal, organizational, community, and public policy factors which support and maintain unhealthy behaviors.
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Identifying and Defining the Dimensions of Community Capacity to Provide a Basis for Measurement
Robert M. Goodman,Marjorie A. Speers,Kenneth R. McLeroy,Stephen B. Fawcett,Michelle Crozier Kegler,Edith A. Parker,Steven Rathgeb Smith,Terrie D. Sterling,Nina Wallerstein +8 more
TL;DR: The dimensions that the symposium participants suggested as central to the construct, including participation and leadership, skills, resources, social and interorganizational networks, sense of community, understanding of community history, community power, community values, and critical reflection are described.
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Toward Integrating Qualitative and Quantitative Methods: An Introduction:
TL;DR: This article discusses how qualitative and quantitative methods can be combined and it introduces the articles included in this issue.
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Advancing the science of community-level interventions.
Edison J. Trickett,Sarah Beehler,Charles Deutsch,Lawrence W. Green,Penelope Hawe,Kenneth R. McLeroy,Robin Lin Miller,Bruce D. Rapkin,Jean J. Schensul,Amy J. Schulz,Joseph E. Trimble +10 more
TL;DR: The new paradigm makes a number of primary assertions that affect conceptualization of health issues, intervention design, and intervention evaluation and is offered for promoting a scientific agenda, developing collaborations among professionals and communities, and examining the culture of science.