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Health Behavior and Health Education: Theory, Research, and Practice

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This article is published in Medicine and Science in Sports and Exercise.The article was published on 1991-12-01. It has received 7710 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Health care & Health policy.

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Health literacy as a public health goal: a challenge for contemporary health education and communication strategies into the 21st century

TL;DR: This paper identifies the failings of past educational programs to address social and economic determinants of health, and traces the subsequent reduction in the role of health education in contemporary health promotion.
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Correlates of physical activity: why are some people physically active and others not?

TL;DR: In this article, a broad view of health behaviour causation, with the social and physical environment included as contributors to physical inactivity, particularly those outside the health sector, such as urban planning, transportation systems, and parks and trails, is presented.
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An ecological approach to creating active living communities.

TL;DR: It is concluded that multilevel interventions based on ecological models and targeting individuals, social environments, physical environments, and policies must be implemented to achieve population change in physical activity.
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Dissecting obesogenic environments: the development and application of a framework for identifying and prioritizing environmental interventions for obesity.

TL;DR: The ANGELO framework appears to be a flexible and robust instrument for the needs analysis and problem identification stages of reducing the obesogenicity of modern environments.