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Healthier lifestyles app
People with Down Syndrome compared to their peers without Down Syndromes are more likely to be obese, which can result to untreated hypothyroidism, but it can also be due to uncontrolled or lack information in regard to the number of calories in their daily intake as well as the level of physical …
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Gamification for a healthier lifestyle – user adherence
Numerous applications have been developed using gamification- in the field of health and well-being to help modify lifestyle factors associated with various diseases such as cancer, diabetes and many more. To improve well-being, an individual needs motivation, and this motivation is one of the key …
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Healthier hotel rooms: Training procedures for hotel guestroom sanitation
The focus of this project was to close the existing gap between current hotel cleaning standards and sanitization levels. In conjunction with a thorough content analysis of industry cleaning procedures, this study aimed to determine effective and efficient cleaning procedures currently used in the …
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Evaluating and informing reformulation strategies to achieve healthier Australian diets
… to make it easier for individuals to make healthier choices. In 2020-21, the Australian federal government released reformulation targets for sodium, sugar and saturated fat across a range of foods. This body of work aimed to evaluate and inform Australia’s reformulation program and explore …
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Hot Food Takeaways around schools: Can fast food be healthier?
Obesity is the greatest global health challenge facing this generation; over half of the adult population are overweight or obese. Calls for food environment interventions include recommendations for restriction or banning of new fast food retailers (FFRs). The Takeaway Toolkit was published by the …
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Shifting towards healthier transport? From systematic review to primary research
Promoting a shift from using cars towards walking and cycling (a modal shift) has the potential to improve population health by reducing the adverse health effects associated with exposure to motor traffic and increasing the population level of physical activity through active travel. However, …
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Gamification to encourage increase on healthier physical activity in younger users
This research is the first part of a greater project with the aim to encourage increase in physical activity in different groups of population. The main goal of this part of the project was to develop a cross-platform mobile application that would use gamification elements and to focus on younger …
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Toward healthier affordable housing: Innovations in environmental design policy and practice
Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'U of I Access', the embargo will last until 2024-12-01
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Creating healthier metropolitan ecosystems: honey bee habitat as a guideline for change
… habitat to ultimately create more sustainable, healthier, urban environments. Habitats, both natural and metropolitan, across the globe have been altered by human development and are no longer able to function in healthy and sustainable ways. The interconnectedness of ecological systems creates …
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Trumpet embouchure injuries: Restructuring practice habits for a longer and healthier career
Submission original under an indefinite embargo labeled 'Open Access'. The submission was exported from vireo on 2023-09-01 without embargo terms
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Inverting the bad debt ladder: Credit self-efficacy and healthier financial state
… is ineffectual in helping consumers return to a healthier financial state. The perception that consumer desire of material goods alone drives poor credit behaviour and therefore greater levels of indebtedness is unfounded, as is the idea of profligate spending and its impact on credit behaviour. …
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Individual Resting Metabolic Rate and Nutrition Education: Does This Knowledge Lead individuals into Making Healthier Lifestyle Choices?
<p>Introduction: Promoting healthier lifestyle choices to college aged individuals is important since the choices they make during early adult years will affect them later in life. Roughly 27% to 35% of college students are overweight (BMI 25929.9 kg/m2) or obese (BMI >30 kg/m2) and only 20% …
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Are poor people healthier in rich or poor areas?: The psychosocial effects of socioeconomic incongruity in the neighbourhood
… that residents in high status neighbourhoods are healthier than those in low status neighbourhoods, controlling for individual status. Here it is hypothesised that such an association may not be found amongst low status individuals, because such individuals may have more detrimental psychosocial …
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Neighborhood plans as tools for public health improvement : steps to a healthier Austin and neighborhood planning in Austin, Texas
This study explores local plans as primary source documents outlining resident-requested, City-approved projects that may help reduce neighborhood-level barriers to physically active transportation and recreation. Emerging evidence suggests a link between the built environment and physical …
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Creating healthier populations: an assessment of the use of data on social determinants of health to inform decision-making in eight countries
BACKGROUND: This work serves as a cases study for the findings of the Rockefeller Foundation-Boston University Commission on Health Determinants, Data, and Decision-Making (3-D Commission). The dissertation assessed public views of what matters for health, the degree of incorporation of SDoH in …
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Innovative food design to support a healthier diet – exploring the effects of dietary fibre enrichment on functional characteristics, physiological and microbiome effects, and consumer acceptance of staple foods
Introduction: Inadequate dietary fibre intake is a public health concern and has been linked to increased risk of noncommunicable chronic diseases. Food reformulation using isolated fibres offers a practical tool to develop palatable fibre-rich foods with a lower glycaemic index, energy density, …
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Interactive Effects of Cover Crops, Invertebrate Communities and Soil Health in Corn Production Systems
… fewer pests. Regenerative systems had generally healthier soil and soil community characteristics; soil health in cornfields was positively correlated with invertebrate abundance and species richness, and there was more litter breakdown in regenerative systems. I conclude that systems which …
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