Toward Preventing Suicide in Las Vegas
January 31, 2008 | Story
The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Health & Society Scholars program has given Matt Wray, PhD, the opportunity to pursue research with important clinical and policy implications.
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Caring School Community Program Goes National with Focuses on Community Building to Promote Healthy Behaviors
September 26, 2007 | Program Results Report
The Developmental Studies Center conducted a trial of an elementary school reform initiative which attempted to build a sense of connectedness to school, and thereby promote healthy behaviors in adolescence.
Patients Benefit from Interventions to Change Their Behaviors
August 12, 2002 | Program Results Report
The Center for the Advancement of Health conducted a study of the availability and integration of health behavior change programs in managed care.
Newark, N.J., Brotherhood Health Initiative Seeks to Engage Troubled Young Minority Males in Health Care System
August 22, 2007 | Program Results Report
The Brotherhood Health Initiative (BHI) was a program designed to increase engagement with the health care system among young minority males aged 12 to 25 in Newark, N.J.
Start Strong: Building Healthy Teen Relationships
National Program
Start Strong: Building Healthy Teen Relationships is an innovative approach to preventing teen dating violence and abuse by teaching 11 to 4 year-olds about healthy relationships.
Weight Change and Depression Among U.S. Young Women During the Transition to Adulthood
July 9, 2013 | Journal Article
In adolescent females, weight gain and obesity were risk factors for depression onset during the transition to adulthood according to research findings.
Gender Differences in the Prospective Associations of Self-Reported Sleep Quality with Biomarkers of Systemic Inflammation and Coagulation
June 7, 2013 | Journal Article
This study investigates the associations between self-reported sleep quality and biomarkers of inflammation and coagulation, which are connected to coronary heart disease.
The Evaluation of Arkansas Act 1220 of 2003 to Reduce Childhood Obesity
March 1, 2013 | Journal Article
This article describes the evaluation of the Arkansas Act 1220 of 2003, an ambitious state policy to reduce childhood obesity.
Changing Policies and the Physical Environment So Children and Families Can Eat Well and Move More
February 14, 2012 | Story
A profile of Sarah Strunk, MHA, director of Healthy Kids, Healthy Communities.
News Media Framing of Childhood Obesity in the United States from 2000 to 2009
July 1, 2011 | Journal Article
An analysis of news coverage of childhood obesity suggests attention to the topic has already waned, and that media framing of the issue and its causes, which can influence public opinion, shifted over time and varied by media type.