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Barriers And Best Practices: Marketing Health Promotion For People With Disabilities, Craig Ravesloot Ph.D., University Of Montana Rural Institute
Barriers And Best Practices: Marketing Health Promotion For People With Disabilities, Craig Ravesloot Ph.D., University Of Montana Rural Institute
Health and Wellness
Health promotion for people with disabilities attracts a diverse audience: people with disabilities themselves, policymakers, service providers and others. This Guideline discusses our research on effective strategies for marketing and promoting RTC: Rural’s two health promotion programs: Living Well with a Disability (an eight-week workshop) and the New Directions physical activity program. It also describes the barriers people with disabilities anticipate when they consider participating in a health promotion program. If marketing strategies address these barriers, more people with disabilities may participate in health promotion activities. Secondary conditions are the medical and psycho-social conditions people with disabilities often experience following …
A Cost-Effectiveness Analysis Of A Community-Based Health Promotion Intervention For Adults With Mobility Impairments: Living Well With A Disability, Craig Ravesloot Ph.D., Tom Seekins Ph.D., Catherine Ipsen M.A., Steve Seninger Ph.D., Colleen Murphy-Southwick Ph.D., Lisa Brennan M.L.S., Rita K. Fjeld M.A., Glen W. White Ph.D., Ann Branstetter Ph.D., Vivian Chapman M.A., Amanda Jay M.A., James A. Bovaird M.A., Janet Marquis Ph.D., University Of Montana Rural Institute
A Cost-Effectiveness Analysis Of A Community-Based Health Promotion Intervention For Adults With Mobility Impairments: Living Well With A Disability, Craig Ravesloot Ph.D., Tom Seekins Ph.D., Catherine Ipsen M.A., Steve Seninger Ph.D., Colleen Murphy-Southwick Ph.D., Lisa Brennan M.L.S., Rita K. Fjeld M.A., Glen W. White Ph.D., Ann Branstetter Ph.D., Vivian Chapman M.A., Amanda Jay M.A., James A. Bovaird M.A., Janet Marquis Ph.D., University Of Montana Rural Institute
Health and Wellness
This document reports on research conducted by the University of Montana and the University of Kansas for the Office of Disability and Health at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The research project, conducted between August 1,1997 and July 31, 2001, was conducted in four separate but related studies. The research was conducted in eight States. We contracted with nine centers for independent living (CIL) to conduct 34 Living Well with a Disability health promotion workshops and to collect outcome measures. These programs included 246 individuals. In the first study, we evaluated the effectiveness and cost outcomes of the …