Health Education

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An evaluation of two Mexican food guides.

In Mexico, the food guide developed by The National Institute of Nutrition for the Mexican population is The Pyramid of Health. In the northwestern Mexican state of Baja California, the Nutrition Institute of Baja California (INUBAC) developed and ...
M Bacardi-Gascon, A Jiménez-Cruz, E Jones (Int J Food Sci Nutr, 200203)
evaluation-two-mexican-food-guides.asp

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How to achieve an ROI on your health care dollars.

Offering employees self-care information, which encourages them to decide what to do for themselves with and without provider assistance, can be a low-cost, effective approach to health care cost management. Components of such a program may include a ...
Don R Powell (Empl Benefits J, 200203)
achieve-roi-your-health-care-dollars.asp

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Retention of basic life support skills 6 months after training with an automated voice advisory manikin system without instructor involvement.

AIM: To evaluate the retention of skills 6 months after training in ventilation and chest compressions (CPR) on a manikin with computer based on-line voice advisory feedback and the possible effects of initial overtraining. METHODS: Thirty five ...
Lars Wik, Helge Myklebust, Bjørn H Auestad, Petter A Steen (Resuscitation, 200203)
retention-basic-life-support-skills-months-after-training-automated.asp

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Peer-led, school-based nutrition education for young adolescents: feasibility and process evaluation of the TEENS study.

Peer education has become a popular strategy for health promotion interventions with adolescents, but it has not been used widely in school-based nutrition education. This paper describes and reports on the feasibility of the peer leader component of a ...
Mary Story, Leslie A Lytle, Amanda S Birnbaum, Cheryl L Perry (J Sch Health, 200203)
peer-led-school-based-nutrition-education-young-adolescents.asp

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An integrative model for environmental health research.

Environmental health research must achieve an integration of understanding, reaching from physiological research on health effects of toxic agents to actions that people may take, individually and collaboratively, to reduce their risks. This article ...
Jane K Dixon, John P Dixon (ANS Adv Nurs Sci, 200203)
integrative-model-environmental-health-research.asp

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Health literacy: a review.

Illiteracy has become an increasingly important problem, especially as it relates to health care. A national survey found that almost half of the adult population has deficiencies in reading or computation skills. Literacy is defined as the basic ability ...
Miranda R Andrus, Mary T Roth (Pharmacotherapy, 200203)
health-literacy-review.asp

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Getting the message across: is communicating risk to the public worth it?

The public and media often seem irrational in their conception of hazard and risk. Scare stories abound, and large sums of money may be spent to mitigate tiny risks. This article describes why it may be human not to be entirely logical about risk. The ...
Jill Meara (J Radiol Prot, 200203)
getting-message-across-communicating-risk-public-worth-it.asp

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Do Internet interventions for consumers cause more harm than good? A systematic review.

OBJECTIVE: To systematically review the effect of consumer use of online health information on decision-making, attitudes, knowledge, satisfaction and health outcomes and utilization. SEARCH STRATEGY: Electronic databases searched included the Cochrane ...
Tracey L Bessell, Steve McDonald, Chris A Silagy, Jeremy N Anderson, Janet E Hiller, Lloyd N Sansom (Health Expect, 200203)
internet-interventions-consumers-cause-more-harm-good-systematic.asp

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How do consumers search for and appraise health information on the world wide web? Qualitative study using focus groups, usability tests, and in-depth interviews.

OBJECTIVES: To describe techniques for retrieval and appraisal used by consumers when they search for health information on the internet. DESIGN: Qualitative study using focus groups, naturalistic observation of consumers searching the world wide web in ...
Gunther Eysenbach, Christian Köhler (BMJ, 200203)
consumers-search-appraise-health-information-world-wide-web.asp

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Examination of instruments used to rate quality of health information on the internet: chronicle of a voyage with an unclear destination.

OBJECTIVE: This study updates work published in 1998, which found that of 47 rating instruments appearing on websites offering health information, 14 described how they were developed, five provided instructions for use, and none reported the ...
Anna Gagliardi, Alejandro R Jadad (BMJ, 200203)
examination-instruments-rate-quality-health-information-internet.asp