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program for youth at risk of developing problems
related to alcohol/drug use, truancy, violence etc.
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>>> "Dr. Billie Thurston"
<[log in to unmask]> 02/01/99 07:23pm
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I am sending this for San - Please respond to my
address.

Hello fellow health promotion researchers and
program planners:

I am conducting a literature review of the
philosophies and/or practices

around program planning that is directed at
specific "risk groups"
versus programming that is targeted at a "general
population." I am
hoping that someone will be able to give me some
useful references or
ideas.

For example, if we say that teenaged girls from
single-parent households

are more likely to smoke, is it more appropriate to
focus intervention
efforts specifically at such girls, or should all girls
aged 12-17 be
targeted?

Thank you in advance for your assistance!

San Patten, M.Sc. Community Health Sciences
University of Calgary