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Successful health promotion programs impart knowledge, influence attitudes, and change behaviors. Essential program components are: needs assessment, organization, coalition-building, marketing, and location. Early intervention, family and peer involvement, individual attention, mentoring, repetition, and after-care are secrets of effective health promotion disease prevention programs.