The challenge of providing infertility services to a low-income immigrant Latino population.

Objective: To provide insight into the experience of low-income immigrant Latino couples seeking infertility treatment.

Design: Qualitative interview study.

Setting: Infertility clinic at a university-affiliated urban public teaching hospital.

Multilevel perspectives on diffusing a physical activity promotion program to reach diverse older adults.

Diffusing research-based physical activity programs in underserved communities could improve the health of ethnically diverse populations. We utilized a multilevel, community-based approach to determine attitudes, resources, needs, and barriers to physical activity and the potential diffusion of a physical activity promotion program to reach minority and lower-income older adults. Formative research using focus groups and individual interviews elicited feedback from multiple community sectors: community members, task force and coalition members, administrators, service implementers, health care providers, and physical activity instructors.

Infertility among low-income Latinos.

Objective: To explore the experience of infertility among low-income Latinos.

Design: Ethnographic qualitative interview study.

Setting: Academic research environment.

Diffusing a research-based physical activity promotion program for seniors into diverse communities: CHAMPS III.

Introduction: Increasing the physical activity levels of older adults through diffusion of successful research-based programs into community settings is challenging because of differences between research and real-world settings. This project diffused the Community Healthy Activities Model Program for Seniors (CHAMPS) II, an individual-level research-based physical activity promotion program, through three community organizations to reach lower-income and minority (primarily Hispanic or Latino and African American) seniors.

Methods: Through an academic-community partnership, university staff worked with each organization to adapt the program to be appealing and effective, enable their staff and volunteers to provide the program, increase participants' physical activity, and leave sustainable programs in place.