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to help you design and implement effective interventions and outreach.
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to assist you in developing or enhancing your research agenda, program, or grant application.
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An initiative of the Health Promotion Council, Bringing Evidence-Based Research Initiatives to Disparate Groups with Evaluation (BE A BRIDGE) is a state-wide multi-disciplinary collaborative working to Improve the health of Pennsylvanians disparately affected by tobacco related chronic disease. BE A BRIDGE links organizations with the resources needed to successfully build capacity to improve and/or develop population-specific tobacco-related programs and interventions.
This Project Is Funded Through A Grant From The Pennsylvania Department of Health
Recent News, Events & Resources
Often, the most difficult thing we encounter when trying to spread th...
Evidence-Informed and Evidence-Based Public Health Concepts and Co...
Fact Sheet Link:http://www.naquitline.org/pdfs/FactSheet-ChronicDiseas...
The Gov's Office of Health Care Reform (GOHCR), through the Chronic Ca...
Summer Blog
Posted by: Chin on Mon, Jun 30 2008Public health programs in public health agencies across the United States are increasingly taking action to integrate activities across single-disease program lines. BE A BRIDGE supports this movement and is working with federal, state and local organizations to integrate chronic disease and tobacco control programs. Recent reductions in funding have increased the need for partnership and collaboration. With all this said, we are not naïve to constraints to integration that include 1) funding that is specific to a disease or an organization i.e., categorical; 2) barriers in the way agencies and organizations operate; and 3) program accountability that...
How can my organization, as one that has resources and wants to provide services to "everyone" find the groups/organizations that operate and serve target populations so we can contact them to work with them in serving the community?