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SPECIAL ISSUE: Lessons learned building community capacity: Minority and immigrant populations

Edited by Rosemary M Caron and Joav Merrick

Editorial

Lessons learned in building community capacity: Minority and immigrant populations
Rosemary M Caron and Joav Merrick

Review Articles

Policy and community partnerships as public health management tools for childhood lead poisoning
Rosemary M Caron and Jessica D Ulrich

Tribal capacity building as a complex adaptive system: New insights, new lessons learned
Michelle Chino

Against the current: Strategies for addressing public health concerns in a Native American community through partnership
Joy Doll, Linda Ohri, Teresa Cochran, Caroline Goulet, Ann Ryan Haddad, and Wehnona Stabler

Lessons learned from adaptation and evaluation of home visitation services for Latino communities
Arthur H Owora, Jane F Silovsky, Lana O Beasley, Patty DeMoraes-Huffine, and Ivelisse Cruz

Original Articles

Environmental public health education partnerships: Successes and challenges
Mary O Dereski and Lisa Pietrantoni
Lessons learned from the Protección en Construcción (PenC) community research partnership
Linda Sprague Martinez, Uchenna J Ndulue, and Maria J Brunette

Issues to consider when adapting evidence-based physical activity interventions with and within racial/ethnic minority communities
Elizabeth A Baker, Freda Motton, and E Yvonne Lewis

Roles of Hispanic service organizations in tuberculosis education and health promotion
Sue Gena Lurie, Stephen Weis, and Guadalupe Munguia

Project Salud: Using community-based participatory research to culturally adapt an HIV prevention intervention in the Latino migrant worker community
Jesús Sánchez, Claudia A Serna, and Mario de La Rosa

The relationship between diabetes, obesity and iris markings in African Americans in Montgomery County, Alabama
Peggy Valentine, Jiangmin Xu, Tatiana Jones, Laila Haile, Myrtle Goore, Jane Smolnik, and Marceline Egnin

Strategies for facilitating the recruitment of Latinas in cancer prevention research
Monica Rosales, Patricia Gonzalez, and Evelinn Borrayo

Promoting youth physical activity and health career awareness in an African American faith community
Judy B Springer, Jeffrey A Morzinski, and Melissa DeNomie

Success of “Promotores de Salud” in identifying immigrant Latino smokers and developing quit plans
Natalia Suarez, Lisa Sanderson Cox, Kimber Richter, Irazema Mendoza, Cielo Fernández, Susan Garrett, Isabel Scarinci, Edward F Ellerbeck, and A Paula Cupertino

Developmental delay in children with blood lead levels between 5 and 9 µg/dl
Edmond A Hooker, Marilyn Goldfeder, Jeff Armada, Monica Burns, Nicholas Lander, and Aaron Senich