Healthy start program participation: the consumers' perspective.

In 1991, the federal Maternal and Child Health Bureau developed the Healthy Start Initiative as a comprehensive community-based program to eliminate the high rates of poor pregnancy outcomes among women of color. To date, few studies of the programmatic outcomes of this Initiative have examined the views of Healthy Start consumers. To understand the benefits of Healthy Start from their consumers' perspective, the Pittsburgh Allegheny County Healthy Start project conducted a survey of 202 of their Healthy Start participants in 2003.

Community-based perinatal depression services for African American women: the healthy start model.

A variety of factors place African American women at risk for depression. Unfortunately, a behavioral health system insensitive to these women's needs exacerbates their risk. Recent reports recommended that mental health services be accessible and acceptable to women of color and include comprehensive, culturally appropriate case management.

Evaluating workforce development: perspectives, processes, and lessons learned.

Evaluating workforce development for public health is a high priority for federal funders, public health agencies, trainees, trainers, and academic researchers. But each of these stakeholders has a different set of interests. Thus, the evolving science of training evaluation in the public health sector is being pulled simultaneously in a number of different directions, each emphasizing different methods, indicators, data-collection instruments, and reporting priorities.