Health Education

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Use of mammography screening among older Samoan women in Los Angeles county: a diffusion network approach.

Minority migrant populations, such as older Samoan women, are likely to underuse preventive health services, including mammography screening. The purpose of this paper is to explore how informal (lay peers from churches) and formal (health care ...
Lené Levy-Storms, Steven P Wallace (Soc Sci Med, 200309)
mammography-screening-older-samoan-women-los-angeles-county-diffusion.asp

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Health education in an inner-city Catholic grade school.

The purpose of this article is to outline the process, content, and evaluation of a 14-week health education program for 6th, 7th, and 8th grade students in an inner city Catholic grade school who are at risk for multiple health problems. The process ...
Katherine Legg, Lana Grigoriev (J Sch Nurs, 200308)
health-education-inner-city-catholic-grade-school.asp

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Spit (Smokeless) Tobacco Intervention for High School Athletes: results after 1 year.

OBJECTIVE: To determine the efficacy of a spit tobacco (ST) intervention designed to promote ST cessation and discourage ST initiation among male high school baseball athletes. METHODS: This study was a cluster-randomized controlled trial. Forty-four ...
Margaret M Walsh, Joan F Hilton, James A Ellison, Lauren Gee, Margaret A Chesney, Scott L Tomar, Virginia L Ernster (Addict Behav, 200308)
spit-smokeless-tobacco-intervention-high-school-athletes-results.asp

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Developing school health services in Massachusetts: a public health model.

In 1993 the Massachusetts Department of Public Health (MDPH) began defining essential components of school health service programs, consistent with the public health model. The MDPH designed and funded the Enhanced School Health Service Programs to ...
Anne H Sheetz (J Sch Nurs, 200308)
developing-school-health-services-massachusetts-public-health-model.asp

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Reducing stigma and discrimination against older people with mental disorders: a technical consensus statement.

This technical consensus statement is jointly produced by the Old Age Psychiatry section of the World Psychiatric Association and the World Health Organization, with the collaboration of several NGOs and the participation of experts from different ...
Nori Graham, James Lindesay, Cornelius Katona, José Manoel Bertolote, Vincent Camus, John R M Copeland, Carlos A de Mendonça Lima, Michel Gaillard, Marie Christine Gély Nargeot, John Gray, Lars Jacobsson, Mireille Kingma, Nicolas Kühne, Anne OLoughlin, Wo (Int J Geriatr Psychiatry, 200308)
reducing-stigma-discrimination-against-older-people-mental-disorders.asp

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Evaluating risk communication about fish consumption advisories: efficacy of a brochure versus a classroom lesson in Spanish and English.

Presentation format can influence the way target audiences understand risk-related information. Brochures or fish fact sheets are the methods traditionally used by state agencies to inform the public about fish consumption advisories and the risks from ...
Joanna Burger, Melanie Hughes McDermott, Caron Chess, Eleanor Bochenek, Marla Perez-Lugo, Kerry Kirk Pflugh (Risk Anal, 200308)
evaluating-risk-communication-fish-consumption-advisories-efficacy.asp

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Tackling childrens road safety through edutainment: an evaluation of effectiveness.

The burgeoning market in electronic media has encouraged a trend toward edutainment, where entertaining, media-based materials are used to facilitate educational outcomes. In this study, we evaluated the effectiveness of a video that has recently been ...
M S Zeedyk, L Wallace (Health Educ Res, 200308)
tackling-children-s-road-safety-edutainment-evaluation-effectiveness.asp

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Parental presence during pediatric anesthetic inductions.

Childrens responses to parental presence during anesthetic induction have been researched thoroughly; however, not much is known about the response of parents to being present at their childs induction. The purpose of this research was to examine parents ...
Mary Kay Himes, Kristina Munyer, Susan J Henly (AANA J, 200308)
parental-presence-pediatric-anesthetic-inductions.asp

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Effect of pictograms on readability of patient information materials.

OBJECTIVE: To design, develop, and evaluate a simple, understandable medicine label and patient information leaflet (PIL) for nystatin suspension, and to assess the effect of incorporating pictograms on understanding in low-literate participants. ...
Leila E Mansoor, Ros Dowse (Ann Pharmacother, 200307-08)
effect-pictograms-readability-patient-information-materials.asp

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Varicella vaccine: factors influencing uptake.

BACKGROUND: In Canada, varicella vaccine is recommended but its uptake has been low. In contrast to most other recommended paediatric vaccines, this one is not currently provided free of charge in all provinces and territories in Canada. OBJECTIVE: To ...
François P de Courval, Gaston De Serres, Bernard Duval (Can J Public Health, 200307-08)
varicella-vaccine-factors-influencing-uptake.asp