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The Community-Level Health Promotion [CLHP] Study Section reviews applications that test the efficacy of interventions that focus on the prevention of health risk behaviors and/or adherence to disease treatments across the lifespan. Studies may investigate social, cultural, and other socioenvironmental factors and processes and their inter-relationships with a broad range of outcomes, including mental and physical health, illness and disorder, risk and protective behaviors and behavior change, health beliefs and attitudes, and normal development and functioning. Research approaches may include ethnographic and other qualitative methods; quantitative and mixed-method studies; cross-sectional, longitudinal, or cohort comparison designs; experimental and quasi-experimental designs. Specific areas covered by CLHP:

• Social environment change, including approaches based on policy development, change, implementation, and enforcement; information dissemination; health promotion; organization or reorganization in communities, schools, worksites or other relevant environment settings; and sports medicine and exercise.
• Community and organizational interventions of randomized experimental and quasi-experimental design in which the unit of assignment is the community or other multi-person entity; interventions that utilize community resources, organizations and information systems for outreach, health education or service delivery; natural experiments; social and organizational networks as systems for intervention delivery; and studies of organization and community characteristics and change processes underlying successful intervention implementation.
• Studies of the adoption and dissemination of health-risk behavior preventive interventions or adherence to treatment and/or complementary treatments.

Study sections with most closely related areas of similar science listed in rank order are:

Psychosocial Development, Risk, and Prevention Study Section [PDRP]
Psychosocial Risk and Disease Prevention Study Section [PRDP]
Risk, Prevention and Intervention for Addictions Study Section [RPIA]
Behavioral and Social Consequences of HIV/AIDS Study Section [BSCH]