Showing papers in "American Journal of Preventive Medicine in 2004"

TL;DR: Land-use mix had the strongest association with obesity, and relationships among urban form, walk distance, and time in a car were stronger among white than black cohorts, while relationships among the built environment, travel patterns, and weight may vary across gender and ethnicity.

TL;DR: Aesthetic attributes, convenience of facilities for walking, accessibility of destinations, and perceptions about traffic and busy roads were found to be associated with walking for particular purposes, and early evidence is promising.

TL;DR: The link between fast food restaurants and black and low-income neighborhoods may contribute to the understanding of environmental causes of the obesity epidemic in these populations.

TL;DR: Overall, energy intake from sweetened beverages increased 135% and was reduced by 38% from milk, with a 278 total calorie increase.

TL;DR: In this article, focus groups were conducted in ten regions across the United States in 2001 to 2002 with four types of participants: (1) consumers with disabilities, (2) architects, (3) fitness and recreation professionals, and (4) city planners and park district managers.

TL;DR: The vast majority of adolescents do not achieve five or more bouts of moderate physical activity per week, and continue to fail to achieve this amount of activity into adulthood.

TL;DR: The present energy-cost framework provides an economic explanation for the observed links between obesity and the food environment, with diet cost as the principal intervening variable.

TL;DR: Several principles and strategies for delivering behavioral risk factor interventions in primary care are derived from the research literature and can be linked to the "5A's" construct to provide a unifying conceptual framework for describing, delivering, and evaluating health behavioral counseling interventions inPrimary healthcare settings.

TL;DR: Data from the 2001 National Health Interview Survey is used to provide an up-to-date picture of multiple risk factor prevalence and clustering in the U.S. population and underline the challenge this presents for primary care and public health systems.

TL;DR: According to Community Guide rules of evidence, there is strong evidence that, under these conditions, mass media campaigns are effective in reducing AID and alcohol-related crashes.

TL;DR: Different environmental attributes were associated with different types of walking and these differed between men and women.

TL;DR: The USPSTF suggests that clinicians inform patients about preventive services for which there is clear evidence of net benefit, and, if time permits, about other services with high visibility or special individual importance, and that the patient-clinician partnership is central to decision making.

TL;DR: For example, this article found that adolescents engaging in risk behaviors are at increased odds for depression, suicidal ideation, and suicide attempts, while abstaining from risk behaviors, involvement in any drinking, smoking, and/or sexual activity was associated with significantly increased odds of depression.

TL;DR: The results of this study may facilitate the planning of public health interventions that are directed at subgroups of the Hispanic population, due to acculturation processes such as the adoption of the unhealthy dietary practices and sedentary lifestyles of the host country.

TL;DR: A small proportion of health plan members meet multiple recommended healthy lifestyle guidelines at once, and this analysis identifies population subgroups of specific interest and importance based on adherence to multiple healthy lifestyle factors, and predictors for increased likelihood to be in adherence to severalhealthy lifestyle factors.

TL;DR: The Task Force on Community Preventive Services found that education and policy approaches to increasing sun-protective behaviors were effective when implemented in primary schools and in recreational or tourism settings, but found insufficient evidence to determine effectiveness in other settings.

TL;DR: Increased efforts are needed among all those trying to lose weight to promote effective strategies for weight loss, including the use of calorie reduction and increased physical activity.

TL;DR: Physical activity was associated with reduced risk of CVD among women in a dose-response fashion and inactive women would benefit by even slightly increasing their PA and even more from additional PA.

TL;DR: The results suggest that research-based interventions, delivered collaboratively by community volunteers and a health-related voluntary agency, can be effectively implemented under real-world conditions.

TL;DR: A conceptual background for population-oriented interventions to promote informed decisions (IDM interventions) is provided, followed by a systematic review of studies of IDM interventions to promoting cancer screening and whether these interventions resulted in individuals participating in decision making at a desirable level.

TL;DR: The criteria for policy interventions from an economic perspective is outlined and arguments for policy intervention that are not based on economic considerations are considered.

TL;DR: Incentives that increased ability to purchase the preventive service worked better than more diffuse incentives, but the type matters less than the nature of the incentive.

TL;DR: A broad range of diseases and health complaints are associated with obesity, and Clinicians should be aware of the diverse ways in which being overweight or obese may affect the health of their patients when counseling them about weight loss.

TL;DR: The evolution of EBPH is reviewed, a new definition forEBPH is proposed, and developments that may support its further advancement are discussed.

TL;DR: This work enumerates 15 hypotheses to be tested for improving patient-clinician interactions and for medical office change and concludes contextual factors are influential in determining success at both the patient and the office practice level.

TL;DR: If appropriately developed with the context of primary care in mind and integrated as part of a systems approach to intervention, IBCT can be a feasible and appropriate aid for primary care.

TL;DR: Frequent binge drinking is associated with significantly worse HRQOL and mental distress, including stress, depression, and emotional problems, and effective interventions to prevent binge drinking should be widely adopted and may help improve quality of life.

TL;DR: A combined economic and public health perspective is applied to better understand physical activity behavior and to guide a search for promising new economically oriented interventions to increase physical activity at the population level.

TL;DR: This study confirms the growing body of research quantifying physical inactivity as a serious and expensive public health problem in adults in the form of higher taxes to subsidize public insurance programs and increased health insurance premiums.

TL;DR: While almost all PDs and most FPs experienced at least one vaccine refusal from parents in the past year, far fewer physicians of both specialties observed an increase in their occurrence.