TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2007//
TI  - The Community Readiness Model: Evaluating Local Smoke-Free Policy Development
JO  - Policy, politics and nursing practice
A1  - Hahn, Ellen J.
A1  - York, Nancy L.
SP  - 184
EP  - 200
VL  - 8
IS  - 3
N2  - The purpose of this article is to review the literature on community readiness and assess the utility of the community readiness model (CRM) for understanding and affecting smoke-free policy development and implementation. The CRM evaluates a community's capacity for successfully developing and implementing prevention or treatment interventions. The purposes of evaluating a community's readiness are to: (a) identify the stage of readiness for policy change, and (b) determine stage-specific strategies to advance a community toward policy change.<p /> 
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SN  - 1527-1544
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1527154407308409
ID  - ref1
ER  -