Health Education

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Effects of exercise on depressive symptoms in older adults with poorly responsive depressive disorder: randomised controlled trial.

BACKGROUND: Depression is common in later life. AIMS: To determine whether exercise is effective as an adjunct to antidepressant therapy in reducing depressive symptoms in older people. METHOD: Patients were randomised to attend either exercise classes ...
Anne S Mather, Cesar Rodriguez, Moyra F Guthrie, Anne M McHarg, Ian C Reid, Marion E T McMurdo (Br J Psychiatry, 200205)
effects-exercise-depressive-symptoms-older-adults-poorly-responsive.asp

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Future challenges in preparing for and responding to bioterrorism events.

The future success of our preparations for bioterrorism depends on many issues as presented in this article. If these issues are properly addressed, the resulting improvements in bioterrorism preparations will allow us to better deter and mitigate a ...
Jessica Jones, Thomas E Terndrup, David R Franz, Edward M Eitzen (Emerg Med Clin North Am, 200205)
future-challenges-preparing-responding-bioterrorism-events.asp

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Community-based adolescent health services in Israel: from theory to practice.

Despite their engagement in health-risk behaviors and their health-related concerns, adolescents have the lowest rate of health service utilization of any age group. Time constraints during routine medical encounters generally leave little opportunity ...
Rachel Wilf-Miron, Fabienne Sikron, Saralee Glasser, Vita Barell (Int J Adolesc Med Health, 200204-06)
community-based-adolescent-health-services-israel-theory-practice.asp

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Impact of a Drug Abuse Resistance Education (D.A.R.E) program in preventing the initiation of cigarette smoking in fifth- and sixth-grade students.

An alarmingly high number of children become addicted to tobacco use. To teach children the skills to resist the influences surrounding the initiation of tobacco and other drug use, a Drug Abuse Resistance Education (D.A.R.E.) program is being ...
Nasar U Ahmed, Noushin S Ahmed, C Ray Bennett, Joseph E Hinds (J Natl Med Assoc, 200204)
impact-drug-abuse-resistance-education-d-r-e-program-preventing.asp

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Application of 0.05 per cent legal blood alcohol limits to traffic injury control in Bangkok.

A substantial proportion (44%) of traffic injury cases seeking emergency services in public hospitals had a blood alcohol concentration (BAC) of 0.1 per cent or more. To reduce alcohol related traffic injuries and deaths, a law was enacted setting a ...
Paibul Suriyawongpaisal, Adisak Plitapolkarnpim, Araya Tawonwanchai (J Med Assoc Thai, 200204)
application--per-cent-legal-blood-alcohol-limits-traffic-injury.asp

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Exclusive breastfeeding is undermined by use of other liquids in rural southwestern Nigeria.

Exclusive breastfeeding (EBF) requires that the child be started on breastmilk on the first day of life and to continue with breastmilk alone for the next 4-6 months. EBF is compromised even when water is given to a child. This study surveyed the ...
Benjamin Osondu Nwankwo, William R Brieger (J Trop Pediatr, 200204)
exclusive-breastfeeding-undermined-other-liquids-rural-southwestern.asp

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Increasing use of mammography among older, rural African American women: results from a community trial.

OBJECTIVES: A community trial was undertaken to evaluate the effectiveness of the North Carolina Breast Cancer Screening Program, a lay health advisor network intervention intended to increase screening among rural African American women 50 years and ...
Jo Anne Earp, Eugenia Eng, Michael S OMalley, Mary Altpeter, Garth Rauscher, Linda Mayne, Holly F Mathews, Kathy S Lynch, Bahjat Qaqish (Am J Public Health, 200204)
increasing-mammography-older-rural-african-american-women-results.asp

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Developing a health promotion program for faith-based communities.

The article describes the partnership formed between community outreach programs, a school of nursing, and hospitals to implement Healthy People 2010 goals in urban, faith-based communities. To date this program has provided health promotion programs to ...
Catherine Nuss Kotecki (Holist Nurs Pract, 200204)
developing-health-promotion-program-faith-based-communities.asp

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Human rights approach to health.

Adopting human rights approach to health carries many benefits, because it emphasizes the equality of all persons and their inherent right to health as the foundation of the health care system. It also argues that promotion and protection of health are ...
Fiona Haigh (Croat Med J, 200204)
human-rights-approach-health.asp

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Young peoples and professionals views about ways to reduce teenage pregnancy rates: to agree or not agree.

CONTEXT: We know little about young peoples views of the effectiveness of interventions to reduce the frequency of teenage pregnancy. OBJECTIVE: To compare the views of young people and professionals about ways to reduce the frequency of teenage ...
Ruth Chambers, Elizabeth Boath, Stephanie Chambers (J Fam Plann Reprod Health Care, 200204)
young-people-s-professionals-views-ways-reduce-teenage-pregnancy.asp