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Showing 1 to 6 of 6 for “"health disparate"”.
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Assessing Children\'s Restaurant Menus in a Health Disparate Region
… restaurant food offered to children in a rural health disparate region. Two trained research assistants conducted systematic audits of all food outlets offering a children\'s menu in the Dan River region using the Children\'s Menu Assessment (CMA) tool. A composite score for each outlet for was …
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Evaluating the Potential Public Health Impact of Community Gardens in a Health Disparate Region: A case study approach
… gardens (CG) have emerged as a popular public health strategy to improve fruit and vegetable access and consumption, few studies provide evidence-based principles to inform the initiation and maintenance of CG. Grounded in Community-based Participatory Research and guided by the RE-AIM (Reach, …
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Using a Community-Based Participatory Research Approach to Improve Health Disparities among Youth and Adults in the Dan River Region
As defined by the US Department of Health and Human Services, health disparities are "a particular type of health differences that are closely linked with social or economic disadvantages." These disadvantages include, but are not limited to, unequal access to quality health care and health …
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Developing and Testing Smartphone Game Applications for Physical Activity Promotion in Adolescents
… physical activity promotion especially in more health disparate populations. The purpose of this research was to develop and test smartphone game application for physical activity promotion in adolescents. The first study included various user-centered approaches (e.g. qualitative data, idea …
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Implementation and Evaluation of a Community Gardening and Nutrition Program among at-risk Youth
… this approach, the Dan River Partnership for a Healthy Community was formed to address regional obesity concerns in the Dan River Region, a health disparate area located in south central Virginia and north central North Carolina. Community gardens were identified as a priority, and the …
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Exploring the Food and Physical Activity Environments and Their Influence on Healthy Behaviors
… the name of The Dan River Partnership for a Healthy Community (DRPHC) with a mission to "foster community partnerships to combat obesity in the Dan River Region through healthy lifestyle initiative". During a planning workshop, the DRPHC created six causal models for the root causes of …