NP16 Latino Fathers Promoting Healthy Youth Behaviors

Healthy youth places promoting nutrition and physical activity.

To reduce the risk for chronic disease, adolescents should eat at least five servings of fruit and vegetables and be physically active daily. The Healthy Youth Places Project will test if an intervention strategy that implements school environmental change--with adult leader and youth participation--will influence and maintain adolescent fruit and vegetable consumption and physical activity. Us...

Promoting Healthy Family Behaviors in the Primary Care Setting

IIntroductiion:: Pediatric obesity is an increasingly prevalent problem. Several studies have examined prevention and treatment strategies. The majority of effective studies involved school or community interventions. With health care becoming more collaborative, we hypothesized that a behavioral health specialist may be effective in executing multifaceted interventions with families of at-risk...

How Living in the 'Hood Affects Risky Behaviors Among Latino and African American Youth

Description and Analysis of Health Promoting Behaviors among older people: Assessing Healthy Lifestyle

  Introduction and purpose:With increased life expectancy and improved health care, elderly population is growing increasingly. Common diseases of ageing have multiple physical and psychological effects on individual and family, as most of difficulties may be prevented by choosing a healthy lifestyle. Regarding to health promotion approaches amongst older people; healthy lifestyle may improve ...

Promoting Better Fathering Among Divorced NonResident Fathers