Journal of Community Medicine & Health Education
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Steinman LE

Health Promotion Research Center, University of Washington, WA, USA

Biography

Lesley partners with low resource settings in the US and more recently in Cambodia to build capacity for delivering brief, evidence-based behavioral interventions to support mental health and chronic conditions. Lesley’s dissemination and implementation research and practice work focuses on community-based social service organizations that can reach underserved populations, address social determinants of health, reduce health disparities in access to care, and strengthen community-clinical linkages to improve people's health and well-being.

Publications

An Analysis of the Adoption and Implementation of Breastfeeding Policies in Washington State Clinics

Breastfeeding policies are a promising systems-level approach to address the disparities in breastfeeding support. While there have been increased efforts to improve hospital maternity care practices, less attention has been focused on the adoption and implementation of similar breastfeeding support strategies in clinics that reach families during ... Read More»

Johnston S, Steinman LE, Bradford V, Walkinshaw LP and Johnson DB

Review Article: J Community Med Health Educ 7:534

DOI: 10.4172/2161-0711.1000534

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