January 1, 2004
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Project staff at Durham Central Park in Durham, N.C., worked with a coalition of 22 community groups to develop or support events that included physical activities or to interject exercise into events not normally associated with it.
December 1, 2003
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During 2002 and 2003, staff at the Surface Transportation Policy Project worked to educate opinion leaders, policy-makers and the public about the impact of transportation policies on the public's health.
November 1, 2003
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The Worksite Wellness Project developed and implemented a model for improving the health of uninsured, low-wage workers in Los Angeles by increasing their awareness of basic health care and linking them to existing providers.
October 1, 2003
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Partnership for Prevention, a nonprofit association focused on promoting health and preventing disease, held an executive roundtable discussion, "Engaging Health Plans in Promoting Physical Activity," on January 24, 2002, in Washington, D.C.
August 1, 2003
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From January 2000 through June 2002, researchers at the University of Alabama at Birmingham studied the factors that promote physical activity among rural African-American women in Wilcox County, Ala.
July 1, 2003
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HealthPartners Research Foundation assessed the lifestyles and health status characteristics of two survey samples of the greater Minneapolis area: one representative of the larger community, the other focused on residents in poorer areas.
May 1, 2003
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Researchers at the University of Michigan School of Nursing developed a 12-week computer-based interactive intervention to encourage adolescent girls to be more physically active, and tested it among girls in two low-income areas.
May 1, 2003
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The independent Task Force on Community Preventive Services formed by the federal CDC began to develop and publish the Guide to Community Preventive Services, a set of recommendations for disease prevention and control based on scientific evidence.
April 1, 2003
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The National Center for Bicycling & Walking developed and published a guidebook entitled Increasing Physical Activity Through Community Design: A Guide for Public Health Practitioners.
April 1, 2003
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In 2000, the Washington, D.C.-based Center for the Advancement of Health, established a Funder's Collaborative and a Leadership Group to examine the unique role of philanthropy in funding interdisciplinary research to improve health outcomes.
