Table 3.

Issue-specific processes: some activities undertaken by community workgroups [35].

Community Initiative	Issue-Specific Activities
Safe Community	- Organising safety campaigns - Teaching school-children traffic behaviour - Publishing printed materials for mothers of newborn babies on the prevention of babies’ injuries - Organising swimming courses to prevent drowning - Implementing safe school campaigns - Publishing printed materials for elderly persons to prevent falls - Distribution of grants to stimulate small prevention projects
Drug Abuse and AIDS Prevention	- Lobbying local policy makers to support the regulation of night sales of alcohol and to reduce youths’ access to alcohol - Organising alternative activities for youth (summer-camps, drug-free discos) - Implementing an anti-AIDS campaign and the distribution of condoms to young people - Producing printed material on sexual education for young people
Elderly Quality of Life	- Organising physical activity events in nature and in sport halls - Organising picnics and cultural outings - Inviting experts to talk on and debate health issues - Undertaking social support visits to peers - Implementing elderly Health Days