Health Promotion

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  Subject Areas on Research

  • "Let Me Help You Help Me": Church-Based HIV Prevention for Young Black Men Who Have Sex With Men. 
  • "We Hide Under the Scriptures": Conceptualization of Health Among United Methodist Church Clergy in Kenya. 
  • 5 competencies needed by new baccalaureate graduates. 
  • 5-a-day Power Plus: process evaluation of a multicomponent elementary school program to increase fruit and vegetable consumption. 
  • A Community-Engaged Research Approach to Improve Mental Health Among Latina Immigrants: ALMA Photovoice. 
  • A behavioral analysis of eye protection use by soldiers. 
  • A community-based intervention increases physical activity and reduces obesity in school-age children in North Carolina. 
  • A crisis in the marketplace: how food marketing contributes to childhood obesity and what can be done. 
  • A health promotion program for medical students. 
  • A longitudinal study on the relationship between weight loss, medical expenditures, and absenteeism among overweight employees in the WAY to Health study. 
  • A manual-based intervention to address clinical crises and retain patients in the Treatment of Adolescents With Depression Study (TADS). 
  • A missing link: the influence of societal beliefs on integration among the world's emerging population of persons with disabilities (PWDs). 
  • A new response to heart disease in women. 
  • A nursing center for ambulatory well, older adults. 
  • A pilot study testing the effect of different levels of financial incentives on weight loss among overweight employees. 
  • A pricing strategy to promote sales of lower fat foods in high school cafeterias: acceptability and sensitivity analysis. 
  • A public health perspective on healthy lifestyles and public-private partnerships for global childhood obesity prevention. 
  • A randomized clinical trial of an integrated behavioral self-management intervention Simultaneously Targeting Obesity and Pain: the STOP trial. 
  • A randomized comparative effectiveness study of Healthy Directions 2--a multiple risk behavior intervention for primary care. 
  • A randomized school trial of environmental strategies to encourage fruit and vegetable consumption among children. 
  • A randomized trial comparing the effects of self-help materials and proactive telephone counseling on teen smoking cessation. 
  • A return-on-investment simulation model of workplace obesity interventions. 
  • A school-based, peer leadership physical activity intervention for 6th graders: feasibility and results of a pilot study. 
  • A summary of the FDA-NIMH-MATRICS workshop on clinical trial design for neurocognitive drugs for schizophrenia. 
  • A system dynamics approach to understanding the One Health concept. 
  • Achieving health for a lifetime: a community engagement assessment focusing on school-age children to decrease obesity in Durham, North Carolina. 
  • Active Mothers Postpartum (AMP): rationale, design, and baseline characteristics. 
  • Addressing barriers to improve children's fruit and vegetable intake. 
  • Adherence to diabetes guidelines for screening, physical activity and medication and onset of complications and death. 
  • Affecting perceptions of harm and addiction among college waterpipe tobacco smokers. 
  • Age-Friendly Communities Initiative: Public Health Approach to Promoting Successful Aging. 
  • Aligning the goals of community-engaged research: why and how academic health centers can successfully engage with communities to improve health. 
  • American Cancer Society Colorectal Cancer Survivorship Care Guidelines. 
  • American Society of Clinical Oncology statement: achieving high-quality cancer survivorship care. 
  • An Initial Evaluation of the Impact of Pokémon GO on Physical Activity. 
  • An Integrated Framework For The Prevention And Treatment Of Obesity And Its Related Chronic Diseases. 
  • An accountability evaluation for the industry's responsible use of brand mascots and licensed media characters to market a healthy diet to American children. 
  • An after-school obesity prevention program for African-American girls: the Minnesota GEMS pilot study. 
  • An evaluation of Duke University's LIVE FOR LIFE health promotion program on changes in worker absenteeism. 
  • An internet-based weight loss intervention initiated by a newspaper. 
  • An intradisciplinary team in a nurse managed center. 
  • Anthropometric, parental, and psychosocial correlates of dietary intake of African-American girls. 
  • Approaches to promotion and implementation of action on Radiation Protection for children. 
  • Are differences in exposure to a multicomponent school-based intervention associated with varying dietary outcomes in adolescents? 
  • Assessing and promoting physical activity in African American barbershops: results of the FITStop pilot study. 
  • Assessing coordination of legal-based efforts across jurisdictions and sectors for obesity prevention and control. 
  • Assessment of quality of cancer-related follow-up care from the cancer survivor's perspective. 
  • Associations of internet website use with weight change in a long-term weight loss maintenance program. 
  • Attitudes about aging well among a diverse group of older Americans: implications for promoting cognitive health. 
  • Attitudes of women in midlife to web-based interventions for promoting physical activity. 
  • Availability of Foods and Beverages in Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program-Authorized Dollar Stores in a Region of North Carolina. 
  • Awareness of national physical activity recommendations for health promotion among US adults. 
  • Behavioral medicine and aging. 
  • Beijing morning. 
  • Breast cancer knowledge, attitudes, and screening behaviors among African American women: the Black cosmetologists promoting health program. 
  • Breastfeeding counseling by health care providers. 
  • Bridging Income Generation with Group Integrated Care for cardiovascular risk reduction: Rationale and design of the BIGPIC study. 
  • Bright Start: Description and main outcomes from a group-randomized obesity prevention trial in American Indian children. 
  • Building communities of care for military children and families. 
  • Building evidence for environmental and policy solutions to prevent childhood obesity: the healthy eating research program. 
  • Call for standardized definitions of osteoarthritis and risk stratification for clinical trials and clinical use. 
  • Can we measure encoded exposure? Validation evidence from a national campaign. 
  • Cancer prevention and early detection: reported activities of nurses. 
  • Cardiovascular Health Among an Underserved Population: Clinical Implications. 
  • Caring for older adults in a nursing wellness centre. 
  • Cervical cancer screening through human papillomavirus testing in community health campaigns versus health facilities in rural western Kenya. 
  • Challenges and solutions for recruiting pregnant smokers into a nicotine replacement therapy trial. 
  • Challenges for public campaigns to improve the health of persons at high risk of developing CKD. 
  • Changes in diet quality of American preschoolers between 1977 and 1998. 
  • Changes in fall prevention training for apprentice carpenters based on a comprehensive needs assessment. 
  • Child and family health in the era of prevention: new opportunities and challenges. 
  • Childhood cancer survivors' perceived barriers to improving exercise and dietary behaviors. 
  • Children's health care use in the Healthy Kids Program. 
  • Church-Based Health Promotion Focused on Advance Care Planning and End-of-Life Care at Black Baptist Churches: A Cross-Sectional Survey. 
  • Clinical and translational science awards and community engagement: now is the time to mainstream prevention into the nation's health research agenda. 
  • Coalition Building for Health: A Community Garden Pilot Project with Apartment Dwelling Refugees. 
  • Cognitive function and dental care utilization among community-dwelling older adults. 
  • Collaborative planning for formative assessment and cultural appropriateness in the Girls health Enrichment Multi-site Studies (GEMS): a retrospection. 
  • Common design elements of the Girls health Enrichment Multi-site Studies (GEMS). 
  • Communication technologies and maternal interest in health-promotion information about postpartum weight and parenting practices. 
  • Community-Supported Agriculture as a Dietary and Health Improvement Strategy: A Narrative Review. 
  • Comparative Effectiveness of Wellness Programs: Impact of Incentives on Healthcare Costs for Obese Enrollees. 
  • Completeness of Human Papilloma Virus Vaccination: A Systematic Review. 
  • Computerized prompts for cancer screening in a community health center. 
  • Consumers' Response to an On-Shelf Nutrition Labelling System in Supermarkets: Evidence to Inform Policy and Practice. 
  • Consumers' perceptions of the fairness and effectiveness of mandated community treatment and related pressures. 
  • Continued progress in the prevention of nail gun injuries among apprentice carpenters: what will it take to see wider spread injury reductions? 
  • Correlates of expected positive and negative support for smoking cessation among a sample of chronically ill veterans. 
  • Cost and cost-effectiveness of a school-based education program to reduce salt intake in children and their families in China. 
  • Cost of HPV screening at community health campaigns (CHCs) and health clinics in rural Kenya. 
  • Cost-effectiveness of family-based group treatment for child and parental obesity. 
  • Creating a transdisciplinary research center to reduce cardiovascular health disparities in Baltimore, Maryland: lessons learned. 
  • Creating healthy food and eating environments: policy and environmental approaches. 
  • Creative educational strategies for health promotion. 
  • Critical opportunities for public health law: a call for action. 
  • Cultural carrying capacity: Organ donation advocacy, discursive framing, and social media engagement. 
  • Curbing potential radiation-induced cancer risks in oncologic imaging: perspectives from the 'image gently' and 'image wisely' campaigns. 
  • Current cigarette smoking among HIV-positive current and former drug users: associations with individual and social characteristics. 
  • Current health behaviors and readiness to pursue life-style changes among men and women diagnosed with early stage prostate and breast carcinomas. 
  • Current quality of cardiovascular prevention for Million Hearts: an analysis of 147,038 outpatients from The Guideline Advantage. 
  • Dental care utilization among older adults with cognitive impairment in the USA. 
  • Depressive symptoms and adolescent eating and health behaviors: a multifaceted view in a population-based sample. 
  • Design and baseline characteristics of participants in the TRial of Economic Incentives to Promote Physical Activity (TRIPPA): a randomized controlled trial of a six month pedometer program with financial incentives. 
  • Determinants of states' allocations of the master settlement agreement payments. 
  • Determining optimal gestational weight gain in a multiethnic Asian population. 
  • Developing a Serious Videogame for Preteens to Motivate HPV Vaccination Decision Making: Land of Secret Gardens. 
  • Developing a family-based HIV prevention intervention in rural Kenya: challenges in conducting community-based participatory research. 
  • Developing a matrix to identify and prioritise research recommendations in HIV prevention. 
  • Developing a scale to assess health regulatory focus. 
  • Development and Implementation of an Interactive Text Messaging Campaign to Support Behavior Change in a Childhood Obesity Randomized Controlled Trial. 
  • Development and initial testing of a computer-based patient decision aid to promote colorectal cancer screening for primary care practice. 
  • Development of level of institutionalization scales for health promotion programs. 
  • Diet quality of overweight and obese mothers and their preschool children. 
  • Dietary intakes of nutrients thought to modify cardiovascular risk from three groups of American Indians: The Strong Heart Dietary Study, Phase II. 
  • Dietary management in the prevention and treatment of hypertension: does it work? 
  • Dieting status and its relationship to eating and physical activity behaviors in a representative sample of US adolescents. 
  • Do the benefits of participation in a hypertension self-management trial persist after patients resume usual care? 
  • Does involvement in food preparation track from adolescence to young adulthood and is it associated with better dietary quality? Findings from a 10-year longitudinal study. 
  • Domestic violence among adolescents in HIV prevention research in Tanzania: participant experiences and measurement issues. 
  • Dynamic model predicting overweight, obesity, and extreme obesity prevalence trends. 
  • Economic Analysis of Primary Care-Based Physical Activity Counseling in Older Men: The VA-LIFE Trial. 
  • Economic evaluation of telephone self-management interventions for blood pressure control. 
  • Effect of an early perinatal depression intervention on long-term child development outcomes: follow-up of the Thinking Healthy Programme randomised controlled trial. 
  • Effect of free distribution of safety equipment on usage among motorcycle-taxi drivers in Tanzania--A cluster randomised controlled trial. 
  • Effect of physical activity guidelines on physical function in older adults. 
  • Effect of socioeconomic status on food availability and cost of the Dietary Approaches to Stop Hypertension (DASH) dietary pattern. 
  • Effect of the Johnson & Johnson Live for Life program on employee smoking. 
  • Effective promotion of breastfeeding among Latin American women newly immigrated to the United States. 
  • Effectiveness of HIV prevention interventions in developing countries. 
  • Effectiveness of a community-based individualized lifestyle intervention among older adults with diabetes and hypertension, Tianjin, China, 2008-2009. 
  • Effects of appearance-based admonitions against sun exposure on tanning intentions in young adults. 
  • Effects of educational materials concerning osteoporosis on women's knowledge, beliefs, and behavior. 
  • Effects of home-based diet and exercise on functional outcomes among older, overweight long-term cancer survivors: RENEW: a randomized controlled trial. 
  • Effects of sex, age, and visits on receipt of preventive healthcare services: a secondary analysis of national data. 
  • Efforts at the Frontlines: Implementing a Hepatitis C Testing and Linkage-to-Care Program at the Local Public Health Level. 
  • Electronic health (eHealth) interventions for weight management among racial/ethnic minority adults: a systematic review. 
  • Emerging adulthood and college-aged youth: an overlooked age for weight-related behavior change. 
  • Emotional health of Canadian and Finnish students with disabilities or chronic conditions. 
  • Engaging stakeholders and target groups in prioritising a public health intervention: the Creating Active School Environments (CASE) online Delphi study. 
  • Enhancing linkage and retention in HIV care: a review of interventions for highly resourced and resource-poor settings. 
  • Enhancing the psychological health of medical students: the student well-being committee. 
  • Environmental changes to control obesity: a randomized controlled trial in manufacturing companies. 
  • Estimating older adults' preferences for walking programs via conjoint analysis. 
  • Ethnic identity and type 2 diabetes health attitudes in Americans of African ancestry. 
  • Evaluating a stage model in predicting monolingual spanish-speaking Latinas' cervical cancer screening practices: the role of psychosocial and cultural predictors. 
  • Evaluation of Amigas Latinas Motivando el Alma (ALMA): a pilot promotora intervention focused on stress and coping among immigrant Latinas. 
  • Evaluation of a Health Coaching Course for Providers and Staff in Veterans Health Affairs Medical Facilities. 
  • Evaluation of an individualized counseling approach as part of a multicomponent school-based program to prevent weight-related problems among adolescent girls. 
  • Exercise and dietary change after diagnosis and cancer-related symptoms in long-term survivors of breast cancer: CALGB 79804. 
  • Experimental research on the relation between food price changes and food-purchasing patterns: a targeted review. 
  • Expert and stakeholder consensus on priorities for obesity prevention research in early care and education settings. 
  • Extant health behaviors and uptake of standardized vs tailored health messages among cancer survivors enrolled in the FRESH START trial: a comparison of fighting-spirits vs fatalists. 
  • Extent and correlates of change in anthropometric and fitness outcomes among participants in a corporate team-based weight loss challenge in Singapore: lose to win 2009. 
  • Factors associated with choice of web or print intervention materials in the healthy directions 2 study. 
  • Factors associated with repeat mammography screening. 
  • Family/media approach to HIV prevention: results with a home-based, parent-teen video program. 
  • First adaptation of coping power program as a classroom-based prevention intervention on aggressive behaviors among elementary school children. 
  • Follow YOUR Heart: development of an evidence-based campaign empowering older women with HIV to participate in a large-scale cardiovascular disease prevention trial. 
  • Foodservice staff perceptions of their influence on student food choices. 
  • Fostering informed decisions: a randomized controlled trial assessing the impact of a decision aid among men registered to undergo mass screening for prostate cancer. 
  • Fruit and vegetable intake correlates during the transition to young adulthood. 
  • Genomic profiling to promote a healthy lifestyle: not ready for prime time. 
  • Giving and getting support at the Wellness Center. 
  • Global AIDS prevention and control. 
  • Government and school progress to promote a healthful diet to American children and adolescents: a comprehensive review of the available evidence. 
  • HIV/AIDS in the Southern USA: A Disproportionate Epidemic 
  • HOME Plus: Program design and implementation of a family-focused, community-based intervention to promote the frequency and healthfulness of family meals, reduce children's sedentary behavior, and prevent obesity. 
  • Hard truths and a new strategy for addressing childhood obesity. 
  • Health Promotion Through Existing Community Structures: A Case of Churches' Roles in Promoting Rotavirus Vaccination in Rural Zambia. 
  • Health behaviors, medical care, and interventions to promote healthy living in the Childhood Cancer Survivor Study cohort. 
  • Health education: historic windows of opportunity. 
  • Health effects of water fluoridation: a response to the letter by Menkes et al. 
  • Health minister announces initiatives on men's health. 
  • HealthMpowerment.org: Building Community Through a Mobile-Optimized, Online Health Promotion Intervention. 
  • Healthcare cost differences with participation in a community-based group physical activity benefit for medicare managed care health plan members. 
  • How do residents prioritize smoking cessation for young "high-risk" women? Factors associated with addressing smoking cessation. 
  • IAEA experience in communicating radiation risks through the RPOP website. 
  • Ignoring regression to the mean leads to unsupported conclusion about obesity. 
  • Image Gently campaign promotes radiation protection for children. 
  • Image Gently(SM): a national education and communication campaign in radiology using the science of social marketing. 
  • Image Gently, Step Lightly: increasing radiation dose awareness in pediatric interventional radiology. 
  • Image Gently: providing practical educational tools and advocacy to accelerate radiation protection for children worldwide. 
  • Impact of a provider job aid intervention on injectable contraceptive continuation in South Africa. 
  • Impact of garden-based youth nutrition intervention programs: a review. 
  • Impact of the Garrett Lee Smith youth suicide prevention program on suicide mortality. 
  • Impact of travel distance on WISEWOMAN Intervention attendance for a rural population. 
  • Impacts of Workplace Health Promotion and Wellness Programs on Health Care Utilization and Costs: Results From an Academic Workplace. 
  • Implementation and evaluation of the VA DPP clinical demonstration: protocol for a multi-site non-randomized hybrid effectiveness-implementation type III trial. 
  • Implementation evaluation of the Telephone Lifestyle Coaching (TLC) program: organizational factors associated with successful implementation. 
  • Implementation findings from a hybrid III implementation-effectiveness trial of the Diabetes Prevention Program (DPP) in the Veterans Health Administration (VHA). 
  • Implementation of health risk assessments with family health history: barriers and benefits. 
  • Importance of sampling frame in physician surveys. 
  • Improvements in Functional Exercise Capacity after a Residential Behavioural Change, Diet and Fitness Program for Obese Adults. 
  • Improvements in medical school wellness and career counseling: A comparison of one-on-one advising to an Advisory College Program. 
  • Improving Medication Adherence in Cardiometabolic Disease: Practical and Regulatory Implications. 
  • Improving coordination of legal-based efforts across jurisdictions and sectors for obesity prevention and control. 
  • Improving health by taking it personally. 
  • Improving the health of the community: Duke's experience with community engagement. 
  • Incorporating primary and secondary prevention approaches to address childhood obesity prevention and treatment in a low-income, ethnically diverse population: study design and demographic data from the Texas Childhood Obesity Research Demonstration (TX CORD) study. 
  • Increasing colorectal cancer screening among individuals in the carpentry trade: test of risk communication interventions. 
  • Individual differences in smoking reward from de-nicotinized cigarettes. 
  • Industry progress to market a healthful diet to American children and adolescents. 
  • Influence of a tobacco-free hospital campus policy on smoking status of hospital employees. 
  • Influence of food companies' brand mascots and entertainment companies' cartoon media characters on children's diet and health: a systematic review and research needs. 
  • Influencing healthful food choices in school and home environments: results from the TEENS study. 
  • Informing cancer prevention strategies for African Americans: the relationship of African American acculturation to fruit, vegetable, and fat intake. 
  • Initiating community self-help: a model for public health workers. 
  • Innovative interventions to promote behavioral change in overweight or obese individuals: A review of the literature. 
  • Intervention effects on kindergarten and first-grade teachers' classroom food practices and food-related beliefs in American Indian reservation schools. 
  • Interventions for individuals with low health literacy: a systematic review. 
  • Investing in Global Health for Our Future. 
  • Inviting consumers to downsize fast-food portions significantly reduces calorie consumption. 
  • Is it important to prevent early exposure to drugs and alcohol among adolescents? 
  • Is pregnancy a teachable moment for smoking cessation among US Latino expectant fathers? A pilot study. 
  • Is there a best body mass index for older adults? Moving closer to evidence-based recommendations regarding "overweight," health, and mortality. 
  • Is there a use for tailored print communications in cancer risk communication? 
  • Just for Us: an academic medical center-community partnership to maintain the health of a frail low-income senior population. 
  • Keen on teen vaccines: improvement of adolescent vaccine coverage in rural North Carolina. 
  • Kids and adults now! Defeat Obesity (KAN-DO): rationale, design and baseline characteristics. 
  • Lack of awareness of common eye conditions in the community. 
  • Leisure-time physical activity among midlife Korean immigrant women in the US. 
  • Licensure challenges in preventive medicine: a public policy issue. 
  • Lifestyle intervention development study to improve physical function in older adults with cancer: outcomes from Project LEAD. 
  • Linking patients with community resources: use of a free YMCA membership among low-income black women. 
  • Long-term dietary outcomes of the FRESH START intervention for breast and prostate cancer survivors. 
  • Making a difference in the health care of veterans: 9 things you should know. 
  • Making the case for laws that improve health: a framework for public health law research. 
  • Managed-Medicare health club benefit and reduced health care costs among older adults. 
  • Manipulating perceptions of colorectal cancer threat: implications for screening intentions and behaviors. 
  • Maternal navigational strategies: examining mother-daughter dyads in adolescent families of color. 
  • Mebane on the move: a community-based initiative to reduce childhood obesity. 
  • Media portrayals of suicide. 
  • Medical assessment for health advocacy and practical strategies for exercise initiation. 
  • Message Framing and Physical Activity Promotion in Colorectal Cancer Survivors. 
  • Midlife women's attitudes toward physical activity. 
  • Military and veteran health behavior research and practice: challenges and opportunities. 
  • Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction in Advanced Nursing Practice: A Nonpharmacologic Approach to Health Promotion, Chronic Disease Management, and Symptom Control. 
  • Mobile health messages help sustain recent weight loss. 
  • Modifiable disease risk, readiness to change, and psychosocial functioning improve with integrative medicine immersion model. 
  • Motivational interviewing as a component of a school-based obesity prevention program for adolescent girls. 
  • Narratives that address affective forecasting errors reduce perceived barriers to colorectal cancer screening. 
  • New advice issued on prevention of sudden infant death. 
  • New mothers' interest in web-based health promotion: association with healthcare barriers, risk status, and user characteristics. 
  • New moves-preventing weight-related problems in adolescent girls a group-randomized study. 
  • Nudging the obese: a UK-US consideration. 
  • Nurse-managed approach to care. 
  • Nutrition policy research that can lead to reduced childhood obesity in the U.S. 
  • Nutritional concerns in American Indian and Alaska Native children: transitions and future directions. 
  • Obesity and departments of family medicine. 
  • Objective measures of adoption of patient lift and transfer devices to reduce nursing staff injuries in the hospital setting. 
  • Observational study in ten beauty salons: results informing development of the North Carolina BEAUTY and Health Project. 
  • Occupational medicine programs for animal research facilities. 
  • Oral health opinions and practices of pediatricians: updated results from a national survey. 
  • Organizational- and employee-level recruitment into a worksite-based weight loss study. 
  • Osteoporosis self-management: Choices For Better Bone Health. 
  • Outcomes of a home-based walking program for African-American women. 
  • Outcomes of videotape instruction in clinic waiting area. 
  • PBRNS engaging the community to integrate primary care and public health. 
  • PREMIER--a trial of lifestyle interventions for blood pressure control: intervention design and rationale. 
  • Parental eating behaviours, home food environment and adolescent intakes of fruits, vegetables and dairy foods: longitudinal findings from Project EAT. 
  • Parents of children with eating disorders: developing theory-based health communication messages to promote caregiver well-being. 
  • Partnering to reduce risks and improve cardiovascular outcomes: American Heart Association initiatives in action for consumers and patients. 
  • Patchy progress on obesity prevention: emerging examples, entrenched barriers, and new thinking. 
  • Pathogenesis and prevention of type 2 diabetes: parental determinants, breastfeeding, and early childhood nutrition. 
  • Pathways family intervention for third-grade American Indian children. 
  • Patient factors related to the odds of receiving prevention services in Veterans Health Administration medical centers. 
  • Perceived barriers to and ideas for weight control interventions in Malay homemakers: results from focus groups. 
  • Perceived barriers to community-based health promotion program participation. 
  • Perceptions of adolescents involved in promoting lower-fat foods in schools: associations with level of involvement. 
  • Pfizer to sponsor European impotence awareness campaign. 
  • Physically active, low-income African American women: an exploration of activity maintenance in the context of sociodemographic factors associated with inactivity. 
  • Pillars for the care of older persons in the Caribbean. 
  • Piloting improved cookstoves in India. 
  • Piloting the Affordable Medicines Facility-malaria: what will success look like? 
  • Population approaches to improve diet, physical activity, and smoking habits: a scientific statement from the American Heart Association. 
  • Potential effect of physical activity calorie equivalent labeling on parent fast food decisions. 
  • Potentially traumatic experiences and sexual health among orphaned and separated adolescents in five low- and middle-income countries. 
  • Practical Approaches to Optimize Adolescent Immunization. 
  • Practical guidelines for development of web-based interventions. 
  • Predicting Suicide Risk in Trauma Exposed Veterans: The Role of Health Promoting Behaviors. 
  • Premier: a clinical trial of comprehensive lifestyle modification for blood pressure control: rationale, design and baseline characteristics. 
  • Prevalence and predictors of giving birth in health facilities in Bugesera District, Rwanda. 
  • Prevention services received by veterans visiting VHA facilities. 
  • Pro-environmental behavior: rational choice meets moral motivation. 
  • Professional nursing education in the future: changes and challenges. 
  • Program preferences to reduce stress in caregivers of patients with brain tumors. 
  • Promoting Palliative Care. 
  • Promoting healthful family meals to prevent obesity: HOME Plus, a randomized controlled trial. 
  • Promoting healthy eating and physical activity in adolescents. 
  • Promoting healthy lifestyles in older cancer survivors to improve health and preserve function. 
  • Promoting patient safety through peer review. 
  • Promoting population health through financial stewardship. 
  • Promotions to increase lower-fat food choices among students in secondary schools: description and outcomes of TACOS (Trying Alternative Cafeteria Options in Schools). 
  • Proportion of US congregations that have people living with HIV. 
  • Providing obesity prevention counseling to children during a primary care clinic visit: results from a pilot study. 
  • Psychometric evaluation of the Persian version of the Type 2 Diabetes and Health Promotion Scale (T2DHPS): a diabetes-specific measure of lifestyle. 
  • Public health clinical demonstration project for smoking cessation in veterans with posttraumatic stress disorder. 
  • Quality of care and outcomes among patients with heart failure and chronic kidney disease: A Get With the Guidelines -- Heart Failure Program study. 
  • Quality of clinical reports on behavioral interventions for hypertension. 
  • Quantifiable impact of the contract for health and wellness: health behaviors, health care costs, disability, and workers' compensation. 
  • Racial and Ethnic Approaches to Community Health (REACH) Detroit partnership: improving diabetes-related outcomes among African American and Latino adults. 
  • Reach out to ENhancE Wellness in Older Cancer Survivors (RENEW): design, methods and recruitment challenges of a home-based exercise and diet intervention to improve physical function among long-term survivors of breast, prostate, and colorectal cancer. 
  • Recall of three heart disease risk factor diagnoses among low-income women. 
  • Recent changes in the U.S. age at death distribution: further observations. 
  • Recruiting older women for screening mammography. 
  • Recruitment and retention of minority participants in the DASH controlled feeding trial. DASH Collaborative Research Group. Dietary Approaches to Stop Hypertension. 
  • Recruitment of African-American pre-adolescent girls into an obesity prevention trial: the GEMS pilot studies. 
  • Reforming nursing education for future practice. 
  • Rehabilitation services after total joint replacement in Ontario, Canada: can 'prehabilitation' programs mediate an increasing demand? 
  • Relationship between adolescents' and their friends' eating behaviors: breakfast, fruit, vegetable, whole-grain, and dairy intake. 
  • Relationships between the family environment and school-based obesity prevention efforts: can school programs help adolescents who are most in need? 
  • Religious Congregations and Health Information Diffusion: Implications for Viral Marketing and Peer Referral Programs 
  • Report of the 16th International Symposium of the Foundation for Promotion of Cancer Research: Recent advances in pancreatic cancer. 
  • Results from a pilot promotora program to reduce depression and stress among immigrant Latinas. 
  • Rethinking obesity counseling: having the French Fry Discussion. 
  • Review of the nutritional implications of farmers' markets and community gardens: a call for evaluation and research efforts. 
  • Role of Counseling to Promote Adherence in Healthy Lifestyle Medicine: Strategies to Improve Exercise Adherence and Enhance Physical Activity. 
  • Rowe and Kahn's model of successful aging revisited: positive spirituality--the forgotten factor. 
  • Safety-promoting behaviors of community-dwelling abused Chinese women after an advocacy intervention: a randomized controlled trial. 
  • Salt sales survey: a simplified, cost-effective method to evaluate population salt reduction programs--a cluster-randomized trial. 
  • Scaling up chronic disease prevention interventions in lower- and middle-income countries. 
  • School-based programs for obesity prevention: what do adolescents recommend? 
  • Schools and obesity prevention: creating school environments and policies to promote healthy eating and physical activity. 
  • Searching for evidence about health education and health behavior interventions. 
  • Shame or subsidy revisited: social mobilization for sanitation in Orissa, India. 
  • Short message service (SMS) text messaging as an intervention medium for weight loss: A literature review. 
  • Smoking cessation interventions for patients with depression: a systematic review and meta-analysis. 
  • Social constructivist approaches for brief, episodic, problem-focused family encounters. 
  • Social marketing of water and sanitation products: a systematic review of peer-reviewed literature. 
  • Social ties and health. 
  • State legislators' beliefs about legislation that restricts youth access to tobacco products 
  • Stated Uptake of Physical Activity Rewards Programmes Among Active and Insufficiently Active Full-Time Employees. 
  • Strengthening an academic nursing center through partnership. 
  • Student attitudes toward wellness, empathy, and spirituality in the curriculum. 
  • Substance use, sexual risk, and violence: HIV prevention intervention with sex workers in Pretoria. 
  • Survivors of childhood cancer and their guardians. 
  • Survivorship: childhood cancer survivors. 
  • Systematic review of positive youth development programs for adolescents with chronic illness. 
  • Tailoring health programming to clergy: findings from a study of United Methodist clergy in North Carolina. 
  • Teaching population health: a competency map approach to education. 
  • Teaching yoga to seniors: essential considerations to enhance safety and reduce risk in a uniquely vulnerable age group. 
  • Temporal trends in self-reported functional limitations and physical disability among the community-dwelling elderly population: the Framingham heart study. 
  • Testing different formats for communicating colorectal cancer risk. 
  • The 'Image Gently' campaign: increasing CT radiation dose awareness through a national education and awareness program. 
  • The Boston FICSIT study: the effects of resistance training and nutritional supplementation on physical frailty in the oldest old. 
  • The Diet Quality Index-Revised: a tool to promote and evaluate dietary change among older cancer survivors enrolled in a home-based intervention trial. 
  • The Effects of Two Workplace Weight Management Programs and Weight Loss on Health Care Utilization and Costs. 
  • The Gerofit Program: a VA innovation. 
  • The Glaxo Wellcome health promotion program: the contract for health and wellness. 
  • The Healthy Home Offerings via the Mealtime Environment (HOME) Plus study: design and methods. 
  • The Image Gently Think A-Head Campaign: Keep Calm and Image Gently. 
  • The Institute of Medicine: ensuring integrity and independence in scientific advice on health. 
  • The MD-MPH program at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. 
  • The National Academy of Medicine and the Cardiovascular Community: Partnering for a Healthier Future. 
  • The National Physical Activity Plan: a call to action from the American Heart Association: a science advisory from the American Heart Association. 
  • The School Food Environment and Obesity Prevention: Progress Over the Last Decade. 
  • The Self-Directed Biological Transformation Initiative and Well-Being. 
  • The Smart Choices front-of-package nutrition labeling program: rationale and development of the nutrition criteria. 
  • The Southampton Initiative for Health: a complex intervention to improve the diets and increase the physical activity levels of women from disadvantaged communities. 
  • The Texas Breast Screening Project: Part I. Mammographic and clinical results. 
  • The Tsinghua-Lancet Commission on Healthy Cities in China: unlocking the power of cities for a healthy China. 
  • The Veterans Learning to Improve Fitness and Function in Elders Study: a randomized trial of primary care-based physical activity counseling for older men. 
  • The YMCA Healthy, Fit, and Strong Program: a community-based, family-centered, low-cost obesity prevention/treatment pilot study. 
  • The adolescent obesity epidemic: why, how long, and what to do about it. 
  • The availability of community ties predicts likelihood of peer referral for mammography: geographic constraints on viral marketing. 
  • The commercial marketing of healthy lifestyles to address the global child and adolescent obesity pandemic: prospects, pitfalls and priorities. 
  • The cultural dimensions of alcohol policy worldwide. 
  • The delivery of immunizations and other preventive services in private practices. 
  • The delivery of public health interventions via the Internet: actualizing their potential. 
  • The distinct role of comparative risk perceptions in a breast cancer prevention program. 
  • The effect of a "maintain, don't gain" approach to weight management on depression among black women: results from a randomized controlled trial. 
  • The efficacy of a daily self-weighing weight loss intervention using smart scales and e-mail. 
  • The efficacy of a multimedia educational campaign to increase the use of eye care services. 
  • The efficacy of tailored print materials in promoting colorectal cancer screening: results from a randomized trial involving callers to the National Cancer Institute's Cancer Information Service. 
  • The food industry and self-regulation: standards to promote success and to avoid public health failures. 
  • The future of digital games for HIV prevention and care. 
  • The girth of a nation--a call to arms...and legs. 
  • The impact of environmental tobacco smoke on women's risk of dying from heart disease: a meta-analysis. 
  • The impact of medication use in a multicomponent intervention: results from the WISEWOMAN program. 
  • The impact of self-reported arthritis and diabetes on response to a home-based physical activity counselling intervention. 
  • The impact of supervised exercise on the psychological well-being and health status of older veterans. 
  • The influence of a consumer-wearable activity tracker on sedentary time and prolonged sedentary bouts: secondary analysis of a randomized controlled trial. 
  • The keys to healthy family child care homes intervention: study design and rationale. 
  • The life of leaders: an intensive health program for clergy. 
  • The love song of the headless fatty and other observations. 
  • The need to advance nutrition education in the training of health care professionals and recommended research to evaluate implementation and effectiveness. 
  • The perils of ignoring history: Big Tobacco played dirty and millions died. How similar is Big Food? 
  • The psychiatric hospital and therapeutic jurisprudence: applying the law to promote mental health. 
  • The receipt of prevention services by veterans using VA versus non-VA facilities. 
  • The relationship between medical students' locus of control and promotion of breast self-examination. 
  • The role of child care settings in obesity prevention. 
  • The state of the world's children, 1985. 
  • The steps to health employee weight management randomized control trial: rationale, design and baseline characteristics. 
  • The unbuilt environment: culture moderates the built environment for physical activity. 
  • The use of pharmacotherapies for smoking cessation during pregnancy. 
  • To Take Care of Patients Well, Physicians Must Take Care of Themselves. 
  • Topical Review: ADHD and Health-Risk Behaviors: Toward Prevention and Health Promotion. 
  • Translating research into practice for healthcare providers: the American Heart Association's strategy for building healthier lives, free of cardiovascular diseases and stroke. 
  • Treating the health, quality of life, and functional impairments in insomnia. 
  • Understanding and preventing noncontact anterior cruciate ligament injuries: a review of the Hunt Valley II meeting, January 2005. 
  • Use of a Web-based component of a nutrition and physical activity behavioral intervention with Girl Scouts. 
  • Use of behavior change techniques in clean cooking interventions: a review of the evidence and scorecard of effectiveness. 
  • Using a conceptual model for practice in a nursing wellness centre for seniors. 
  • Using community-based participatory research methods to reach women with health messages: results from the North Carolina BEAUTY and Health Pilot Project. 
  • Using research poetics "responsibly": applications for health promotion research. 
  • Vaccine knowledge and practices of primary care providers of exempt vs. vaccinated children. 
  • Watch me grow: a garden-based pilot intervention to increase vegetable and fruit intake in preschoolers. 
  • Web-based weight loss in primary care: a randomized controlled trial. 
  • Weight loss with self-help compared with a structured commercial program: a randomized trial. 
  • Wellness center. 
  • What Can Be Learned from Existing Investigations of Weight-Related Practices and Policies with the Potential to Impact Disparities in US Child-Care Settings? A Narrative Review and Call for Surveillance and Evaluation Efforts. 
  • What role can child-care settings play in obesity prevention? A review of the evidence and call for research efforts. 
  • Which single intervention would do the most to improve the health of those living on less than $1 per day? Interview by Gavin Yamey. 
  • Why gerontologists should care about empirical research on religion and health: transdisciplinary perspectives. 
  • Work group IV: Future directions for measures of the food and physical activity environments. 
  • Working with licensed cosmetologists to promote health: results from the North Carolina BEAUTY and Health Pilot Study. 
  • Workplace wellness recognition for optimizing workplace health: a presidential advisory from the American Heart Association. 
  • [A national database for information on disease prevention and health promotion in the USA]. 
  • [Global health 2035: a world converging within a generation]. 
  • [Public health education and health promotion in Hungary: the role of Canada. The TEMPUS consortium for a New Public Health in Hungary]. 
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  • Broverman, Sherryl A., Associate Professor of the Practice of Biology, Biology
  • Chung, Richard Joonoh, Associate Professor of Pediatrics, Medicine, General Internal Medicine
  • Dedert, Eric, Assistant Professor in Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences, Behavioral Medicine
  • Dement, John McCray, Professor Emeritus in Community and Family Medicine, Community and Family Medicine, Occupational & Environmental Medicine
  • Gold, Deborah T., Professor in Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Psychology and Neuroscience
  • Grambow, Steven C., Assistant Professor of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics, Biostatistics & Bioinformatics
  • Halstater, Brian Hugh, Associate Professor of Community and Family Medicine, Community and Family Medicine, Family Medicine
  • McConnell, Eleanor Schildwachter, Associate Professor in the School of Nursing, with tenure, School of Nursing
  • Odgers, Candice L., Research Professor in the Sanford School of Public Policy, Sanford School of Public Policy
  • Ostbye, Truls, Professor in Community and Family Medicine, Community and Family Medicine
  • Patel, Uptal Dinesh, Adjunct Professor in the Department of Medicine, Medicine, Nephrology
  • Shaw, Ryan, Elizabeth C. Clipp Term Chair of Nursing, Duke Science & Society
  • Strand de Oliveira, Justine, Professor Emeritus in Community and Family Medicine, Community and Family Medicine
  • Svetkey, Laura Pat, Professor of Medicine, Medicine
  • Weigle, Nancy Jean, Associate Professor in Community and Family Medicine, Community and Family Medicine, Family Medicine
  • Whetten, Kathryn, Professor in the Sanford School of Public Policy, School of Nursing
  • Yancy Jr., William Samuel, Associate Professor of Medicine, Medicine, General Internal Medicine