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Delivering the Science
and the Art of Health Promotion |
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Robert F. Allen
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| THE SCIENCE OF HEALTH PROMOTION | ||
| Interventions | ||
| Weight Control | ||
| Mei-Wei Chang Linda C. Baumann Susan Nitzke Roger L. Brown |
269 | Predictors of Fat Intake
Behavior Differ Between Normal-weight and Obese WIC Mothers Predisposing, enabling, and reinforcing factors related to weight and nutrition were measured among a stratified convenience sample of 581 women. With fat intake as the dependent variable, structural equation modeling was conducted to determine if fat intake behaviors were the same for the two groups. For normal-weight women, only reinforcing factors were positively associated with fat intake behavior. For obese women, reinforcing and enabling , but not predisposing factors, were positively associated with fat intake behavior. |
| Strategies | ||
| Behavior Change | ||
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Emely de Vet
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278 | Determinants of Forward Stage
Transition From Precontemplation and Contemplation for Fruit Consumption
A cohort of 735 adults was drawn from a random sample of an existing Dutch Internet panel for this study of whether self-efficacy, decisional balance (pros and cons of making a behavior change), and fruit intake predicted the forward stage transition out of precontemplation and contemplation. Measures included electronic food frequency and other questionnaires. Self-efficacy, pros and fruit intake predicted forward stage transition from precontemplation; only self-efficacy predicted forward stage transition from contemplation. The study provided partial support for the Transtheoretical Model of behavior change. |
| Culture Change | ||
| Allen Cheadle Sandra Senter Alicia Procello David Pearson Gary D. Nelson Howard P. Greenwald William L. Beery |
286 | The California Wellness
Foundation's Health Improvement Initiative: Evaluation Findings and Lessons
Learned Nine California communities received funding for 5 years to create broad-based Health Partnerships. The goal was to implement community-level systems changes to improve "population health," broadly defined to include social, economic, and cultural determinants of health, in addition to traditional health status indicators. Data were collected using key informant interviews, closed-ended surveys, and participant observation. At the end of the 5 years, six of the nine Partnerships had played a critical role in implementing sustainable systems changes that would likely have a significant impact in their target communities. Four "lessons learned" for working with coalitions are described. |
| Elizabeth M. Barbeau Roberta Goldman Cora Roelofs Joshua Gagne Elizabeth Harden Kathleen Conlan Anne Stoddard Glorian Sorensen |
297 | A New Channel for Health
Promotion: Building Trade Unions Cross-sectional survey data obtained from a nationally-representative sample of 1109 unionized construction workers indicate that most members view their union as a source of information, material benefits, job opportunities, workplace protection (safety), and community (solidarity). The findings of focus group interviews among 88 union workers were used to develop intervention methods and materials. This paper describes the formative research phase of a large randomized, controlled trial designed to reduce smoking and increase fruit and vegetable consumption among union workers. |
| Applications | ||
| Health Promoting Community Design | ||
| Jennifer L. Atkinson James F. Sallis Brian E. Saelens Kelli L. Cain Jennifer B. Black |
304 | The Association of Neighborhood
Design and Recreational Environments With Physical Activity The association of neighborhood design factors and recreational environments was measured by using the Neighborhood Environment Walkability Survey, a survey on recreational environmental survey, self reported and accelerometer measures of moderate, vigorous and total physical activity of 102 randomly selected adults in two neighborhoods. Of the 11 environmental factors, only four had any statistically significant association with the physical activity measures. The standardized total environmental score was correlated with vigorous accelerometer (r = .23) and self reported (r = .28) physical activity, but not moderate or total physical activity. Residential density was moderately correlated with vigorous accelerometer (r = .39) and self reported (r = .35) physical activity, but not moderate or total physical activity. Connectivity was correlated with vigorous (r = .25) and total (r = .21) accelerometer physical activity. Home equipment was correlated with vigorous (r = .27) and total (r = .34) self reported physical activity. |
| Claudio Nigg Jay Maddock Jessica Yamauchi Virginia Pressler Betty Wood Susan Jackson |
310 | The Healthy Hawaii Initiative: A
Social Ecological Approach Promoting Healthy Communities Funding from the state tobacco settlement has allowed creation of the Healthy Hawaii initiative which uses a social ecological approach to target smoking, poor nutrition, and physical inactivity. Programs include grants to 16 school complexes to support policy, environmental and systems changes, 8 workshops and conferences per year 1999–2002 for teachers, 26 community level grants to support policy, environmental and systems changes and five targeted grants, and a public education campaign. |
| Amy I. Zlot Tom L. Schmid |
314 | Relationships Among Community
Characteristics and Walking and Bicycling for Transportation or Recreation Linking data from the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System, the Nationwide Personal Transportation Survey, and the Trust for Public Land, estimates are provided for recreational walking/bicycling, utilitarian walking/bicycling, and parkland as a percentage of city acreage. Data are summarized according to 34 metropolitan statistical areas or cities. San Francisco (metropolitan statistical area) had the highest percentage of people who walked or bicycled for recreation (67.7%) and the highest percentage of parkland (19.8%). New York City had the highest percentage of people who walked or bicycled for transportation (33.6%). The association between utilitarian walking/bicycling and parkland acreage was significant (r = .62). |
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Abstracts DataBase: Research and Evaluation Results
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10 abstracts
are featured from a variety of publications Four new studies are critiqued and added to the DataBase chart. |
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The Art of Health Promotion |
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| Larry S. Chapman | 1 | Presenteeism and its Role in Worksite Health
Promotion Presenteeism is a newer concept that addresses health-related losses to productivity while the individual is at work. This edition of The Art of Health Promotion provides a general overview and identifies the importance of the concept and how presenteeism can be addressed in the context of worksite health promotion programs. The burgeoning efforts at measurement and evaluation are briefly reviewed. |
| 8 | Selected Abstracts Abstracts are provided for 19 articles on presenteeism issues in working populations. |
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| Larry S. Chapman | 14 |
Closing Thoughts Editorial comments on the main article are offered in the Closing Thoughts column. |
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