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Kenneth R. McLeroy

Kenneth R. McLeroy

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Social Sciences and Humanities

D-Index
41
Citations
20279
World Ranking
4854
National Ranking
2302

Overview

Kenneth R. McLeroy was affiliated with Texas A&M University in the United States. Their scholarly work encompassed public health and related disciplines, with research contributions spanning various specialized subfields.

The main subfields to which McLeroy contributed included:

  • General Health Professions
  • Health
  • Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine
  • Physiology
  • Family Practice

McLeroy's research addressed several key topics such as:

  • Health disparities and outcomes
  • Cardiovascular Health and Risk Factors
  • Smoking Behavior and Cessation
  • Public Health Policies and Education
  • Health Policy Implementation Science
  • Community Health and Development
  • Medication Adherence and Compliance

Their recent papers include:

  • "Highlighting Contributions of Behavioral and Social Sciences in Advancing Public Health: Where We've Come, Where We're Headed" (2020), published in Journal of Public Health Management and Practice
  • "Evaluating community-driven cardiovascular health policy changes in the United States using agent-based modeling" (2022), published in Journal of Public Health Policy
  • "The effect of health-related information seeking and financial strain on medication nonadherence among patients with diabetes and/or hypertension in central Texas" (2020), published in Journal of Pharmaceutical Health Services Research
  • "Assessment of the inclusivity of the national CLAS standards enhancement initiative of bisexual identities" (2022), published in New Directions for Evaluation
  • "Psychometric Properties of Three Scales Designed to Assess Attitudes and Beliefs toward Interdisciplinary Research and Team Factors" (2024), published in Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation

Frequent coauthors during McLeroy's career included:

  • James N. Burdine
  • Paul Montgomery
  • Sean Grant
  • Evan Mayo-Wilson
  • Geraldine Macdonald

McLeroy's works were published in venues such as:

  • UNC Libraries
  • Journal of Public Health Policy
  • Journal of Public Health Management and Practice
  • Journal of Pharmaceutical Health Services Research
  • New Directions for Evaluation

Best Publications

  • An Ecological Perspective on Health Promotion Programs

    Kenneth R. McLeroy;Daniel Bibeau;Allan Steckler;Karen Glanz

  • Identifying and Defining the Dimensions of Community Capacity to Provide a Basis for Measurement

    Robert M. Goodman;Marjorie A. Speers;Kenneth Mcleroy;Stephen Fawcett

  • Toward Integrating Qualitative and Quantitative Methods: An Introduction:

    Allan Steckler;Kenneth R. McLeroy;Robert M. Goodman;Sheryl T. Bird

  • Community-based interventions.

    Kenneth R. McLeroy;Barbara L. Norton;Michelle C. Kegler;James N. Burdine

  • Advancing the science of community-level interventions.

    Edison J. Trickett;Sarah Beehler;Charles Deutsch;Lawrence W. Green

  • Parental communication and youth sexual behaviour.

    Cheryl B. Aspy;Sara K. Vesely;Roy F. Oman;Sharon Rodine

  • The importance of external validity.

    Allan Steckler;Kenneth R. McLeroy

  • Upending the Social Ecological Model to Guide Health Promotion Efforts Toward Policy and Environmental Change

    Shelley D. Golden;Kenneth R. McLeroy;Lawrence W. Green;Jo Anne L. Earp

  • Factors That Contribute to Effective Community Health Promotion Coalitions: A Study of 10 Project ASSIST Coalitions in North Carolina:

    Michelle Crozier Kegler;Allan Steckler;Kenneth Mcleroy;Sally Herndon Malek

  • Measuring the diffusion of innovative health promotion programs.

    Allan Steckler;Robert M. Goodman;Kenneth R. McLeroy;Sonia Davis

  • The potential protective effects of youth assets from adolescent sexual risk behaviors

    Sara K Vesely;Vicki H Wyatt;Roy F Oman;Cheryl B Aspy

  • Development of Level of Institutionalization Scales for Health Promotion Programs

    Robert M. Goodman;Kenneth R. McLeroy;Allan B. Steckler;Rick H. Hoyle

  • Diffusion of Innovations in Schools: A Study of Adoption and Implementation of School-Based Tobacco Prevention Curricula:

    Laura K. McCormick;Allan B. Steckler;Kenneth R. McLeroy

  • The Potential Protective Effect of Youth Assets on Adolescent Alcohol and Drug Use

    Roy F. Oman;Sara Vesely;Cheryl B. Aspy;Kenneth R. McLeroy

  • Adolescent Violence: The Protective Effects of Youth Assets.

    Cheryl B. Aspy;Roy F. Oman;Sara K. Vesely;Kenneth McLeroy

  • Health in rural America: Remembering the importance of place

    Charles D. Phillips;Kenneth R. McLeroy

  • Reliability and Validity of the Youth Asset Survey (YAS)

    Roy F Oman;Sara K Vesely;Kenneth R Mcleroy;Vicki Harris-Wyatt

  • Future health applications of genomics: priorities for communication, behavioral, and social sciences research.

    Colleen M. McBride;Deborah Bowen;Lawrence C. Brody;Celeste M. Condit

  • Self-efficacy and health education.

    Lyn Lawrance;Kenneth R. McLeroy

  • Adolescent Tobacco Use: The Protective Effects of Developmental Assets

    Leslie A. Atkins;Roy F. Oman;Sara K. Vesely;Cheryl B. Aspy

  • Thinking of Systems

    Kenneth McLeroy

Frequent Co-Authors

Allan Steckler
Allan Steckler University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Michelle C. Kegler
Michelle C. Kegler Emory University
Nell H. Gottlieb
Nell H. Gottlieb The University of Texas at Austin
Lawrence W. Green
Lawrence W. Green University of California, San Francisco
Mary E. Northridge
Mary E. Northridge New York University
Marcia G. Ory
Marcia G. Ory Texas A&M University
Louise Potvin
Louise Potvin University of Montreal
Rick H. Hoyle
Rick H. Hoyle Duke University
Thomas W. Valente
Thomas W. Valente University of Southern California

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