Health Education

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Interdisciplinary collaboration: a study in progress.

A multidisciplinary, multi-institutional collaborative effort was initiated to address the perspectives of health care literacy in an urban/rural area of west Texas. This article presents the mechanisms utilized in the development and implementation of ...
Carol Boswell, Sharon Cannon, KoKo Aung, Becky Hammack, G Peter Ienatsch, Melvin Prado (Public Health Nurs, 200207-08)
interdisciplinary-collaboration-study-progress.asp

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Seat-belt use by trauma center employees before and after a safety campaign.

OBJECTIVES: To determine whether employees of a regional trauma center wore seat belts any more often than did visitors to the medical center and residents of the state. To demonstrate whether an intensive safety campaign would improve seat-belt ...
Karen E Scheltema, Susan M Brost, Geraldine A Skager, David J Roberts (Am J Health Behav, 200207-08)
seat-belt-trauma-center-employees-after-safety-campaign.asp

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Postpartum issues for expectant mothers and fathers.

OBJECTIVE: To investigate the postpartum psychosocial and infant care topics that women and men who attend preparation for parenthood classes have been thinking or worrying about during the pregnancy. Furthermore, to compare the rates of endorsement of ...
Stephen Matthey, Mary Morgan, Loretta Healey, Bryanne Barnett, David J Kavanagh, Pauline Howie (J Obstet Gynecol Neonatal Nurs, 200207-08)
postpartum-issues-expectant-mothers-fathers.asp

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Preschool childrens acceptance of a novel vegetable following exposure to messages in a storybook.

OBJECTIVE: To investigate whether childrens books affect attitudes and behaviors pertaining to an unfamiliar vegetable. DESIGN: Nine Head Start classes were randomly assigned to a positive, negative, or control group. Data were collected through ...
Elena Byrne, Susan Nitzke (J Nutr Educ Behav, 200207-08)
preschool-children-s-acceptance-novel-vegetable-following-exposure.asp

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Folic acid and the prevention of neural tube defects (NTDs). Challenges and recommendations for public health.

OBJECTIVE: To outline specific challenges facing public health in Canada that need to be addressed to ensure that all women of childbearing years can attain optimal folate status for prevention of NTDs. METHODS: The new Dietary Reference Intake (DRI) for ...
Heidi S Reisch, Mary A T Flynn (Can J Public Health, 200207-08)
folic-acid-prevention-neural-tube-defects-ntds-challenges.asp

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Outreach to community organizations: the next consumer health frontier.

Outreach by health sciences librarians to various constituencies helps ensure that the information needs of these groups are adequately met. In the past, librarians have extended outreach to isolated rural health care providers, urban clinicians not ...
Carol S Scherrer (J Med Libr Assoc, 200207)
outreach-community-organizations-next-consumer-health-frontier.asp

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Health promotion for urban elderly: a survey of learning needs.

Community based education programs and community partnerships are crucial for attaining the objectives of Healthy People 2010. The purpose of this descriptive study was to determine the health promotion needs of urban African-American elderly from the ...
Pauline M Green, Beatrice Adderley-Kelly (J Natl Black Nurses Assoc, 200207)
health-promotion-urban-elderly-survey-learning-needs.asp

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The child sexual abuser: perceptions of college students and professionals.

College students and members of the Association for the Treatment of Sexual Abusers (ATSA) were compared as to their beliefs and attitudes concerning perpetrators of child sexual abuse. Analyses of a 44-item inventory (assessing beliefs about an abusers ...
Daniel A Fuselier, Robert L Durham, Sandy K Wurtele (Sex Abuse, 200207)
child-sexual-abuser-perceptions-college-students-professionals.asp

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Assessment of a new approach to family planning services in rural Pakistan.

OBJECTIVES: In 1993, the government of Pakistan started a new approach to the delivery of contraceptive services by training literate married women to provide doorstep advice and supplies in their own and neighboring communities. This report assesses ...
Mehboob Sultan, John G Cleland, Mohamed M Ali (Am J Public Health, 200207)
assessment-new-approach-family-planning-services-rural-pakistan.asp

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Increasing the use of child restraints in motor vehicles in a Hispanic neighborhood.

The use of restraints in motor vehicles is less common in minority and low-income populations than in the general population. A preliminary survey of Hispanic preschool-aged children in west Dallas, Tex, conducted in 1997 showed much lower child ...
Gregory R Istre, Mary A McCoy, Katie N Womack, Linda Fanning, Laurette Dekat, Martha Stowe (Am J Public Health, 200207)
increasing-child-restraints-motor-vehicles-hispanic-neighborhood.asp