"I wasn't texting; I was just reading an email …": a qualitative study of distracted driving enforcement in Washington State.

Background: In response to the rise of distracted driving, many countries and most US states have adopted laws to restrict the use of handheld phones for drivers. Specific provisions of each law and the overall social mores of distracted driving influence enforceability and impact.

Objectives: Identify multilevel interdependent factors that influence distracted driving enforcement through the perspective of police officers.

Implementation of the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation's Community Health Promotion Grant Program: a process evaluation.

The Community Health Promotion Grants Program, sponsored by the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation, represents a major health initiative that established 11 community health promotion projects. Successful implementation was characterized by several critical factors: (1) intervention activities; (2) community activation; (3) success in obtaining external funding; and (4) institutionalization.

Activating communities for health promotion: a process evaluation method.

Objectives: To date, evaluations of community-based prevention programs have focused on assessing outcomes, not the process of organizing communities for health promotion. An approach was developed to analyze community organization efforts aimed at advancing community health objectives. These organizational processes are referred to as community activation.

Community activation and health promotion: identification of key organizations.

Purpose: The purpose of this study is to identify the kinds of community organizations community leaders consider important for community health promotion efforts.

Design: Key informants were identified by reputational sampling of organizations relevant to community health promotion. Key informants were asked to list organizations they considered important for community health promotion.

HMO innovations. Video-enhanced medical advice; senior zoo walkers; Group Health Resource Line; enhancing health education programs through desktop publishing; home health beat; innovative school health partnership.

The editors of HMO PRACTICE asked clinicians and health educators in HMOs across the country to submit reports on their unique, successful patient education programs. The following HMO Innovations testify to the wide range of new technologies, enterprising partnerships, and creative ideas that are shaping health education in HMOs today.