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| Epidemiological measures of participation in community health promotion projects | | Author(s) | Wendy H Oddy, C D'Arcy J Holman, Billie Corti |
| Journal title | International Journal of Epidemiology, vol 24, no 5, 1995 |
| Pages | pp 1013-1021 |
| Keywords | Health [elderly] ; Preventative medicine ; Projects ; Socio-economic groups [elderly] ; Participation ; Demography ; Australia. |
| Annotation | This paper concerns use of epidemiological methods to measure participation in community health promotion projects by sociodemographic and health-related behaviour, in this instance projects sponsored by the Western Australian Health Promotion Foundation (Healthway) in 1992. Each sport, art and racing project was associated with promotion of a health message and creation of a health promoting environment. The study used a two-stage sampling design. 13 of 57 large projects, and 30 of 129 small projects were selected. 4060 respondents aged over 10 years were sampled from the selected projects. Total participation rate was 4.01 per person-year. The rate was very high at ages 10-14, and thereafter declined with increasing age. Compared with the least socially disadvantaged 25% of the population, the participation rate fell by around one-third in the high and medium disadvantage groups, but exceeded the baseline by a ratio of 1.85 in the most disadvantaged 10% of the population. The effect was most pronounced at ages 10-19 years. Participation was higher in those who smoked, drank alcohol unsafely, and reported sunburn and low consumption of fruit and vegetables. Participation was reduced in those who were sedentary. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-980107219 A |
| Classmark | CC: LK2: 3E: F:T4: TMB: S8: 7YA * |
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