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From Science thought collaboration to the Health Community

Recent publications in the prevention field point out the importance of science and local community collaboration in order to create conditions for healthy community development. That is, besides research, the goal of scientific project "Prevention of behavior disorders in the local community". As we presented last year the project is conduct in Region of Istria, Croatia, and has two parallel parts – scientific research and community development. On this Conference we would like to present community development part. We work with group of 17 coordinators from 4 communities, once in two months. In the group there are community key leaders and professionals who work with children and youth. In the first year of work with the people from the community we had several meetings in which we prepare them to work on 3 main domains: epidemiology, creating database of programs and program evaluation. Those three domains will create the 4th task force – model creation and implementation. Right now mentioned three "task forces" are educated and prepared to do the work in the field. Consequently, efforts that will be made by those three "task forces" will lead to the creating and implementing the model of behavior disorders prevention in community, and furthermore the community will have the ownership of the model. Creating collaboration in this way, in other words, creating collaboration that link science and specific practice in the field, could be some kind of "guarantee" for efficacy and sustainability of the model.

local community; prevetion of behavior disorders; epidemiology; creating database of programs; program evaluation

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