Citation

York NL, Hahn EJ. Policy Polit. Nurs. Pract. 2007; 8(3): 184-200.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2007, SAGE Publishing)

DOI

10.1177/1527154407308409

PMID

unavailable

Abstract

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.