Global Health Promotion Office, National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, USA University of Utah School of Medicine, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA Health Economics Program, University of Calgary, Alberta, Canada Division for Heart Disease and Stroke Prevention, National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and...

1 Arthritis Program, National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA, USA 2 Healthy Aging Program, National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA, USA 3 Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University, Atlanta, GA, USA 4 Epilepsy Program, N...

Short title: HLA II-induced signals in gingival fibroblasts. 1. Department of Patho-physiology Periodontal Science, Okayama University Graduate School of Medicine, Dentistry and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Okayama, Japan 2. First Department of Pathology, Hyogo College of Medicine, Hyogo, Japan 3. Department of Allergy and Immunology, Saitama Medical School, Saitama, Japan 4. (current address) Depa...

Shokofe Darkhor, Fatemeh Estebsari, Jamshid Yazdani Charati. Master student Community Health Nursing, School of Nursing & Midwifery, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences &, Tehran, Iran; PhD of Health Education & Promotion, Department of Health, School of Nursing & Midwifery, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran; AssociateProfessor, Department of Biostatistics,...

materials and methods totally, 410 students including 204 males and 206 females studying in grades 9 to 12 and aged between 15–18 years old were studied. the instruments used to collect data were a self administered demographic questionnaire and the scale of adolescent health promotion (ahp). results the mean age of participants was 16.5 (sd = 1.34) years. the mean score of adolescent health pr...

BACKGROUND Few evaluations of school health programs measure academic outcomes. K-12 education needs evidence for academic achievement to implement school programs. This article presents a systematic review of the literature to examine evidence that school health programs aligned with the Coordinated School Health Program (CSHP) model improve academic success. METHODS A multidisciplinary pane...

Education confers the ability to combine knowledge, attitudes, and skills and use them to shape one's life and the lives of others. A higher educational level correlates with greater competence in decision-making, a better economic situation, and a higher degree of awareness concerning the benefits of and risks to health--indeed, education can be said to be a prerequisite for health. However, e...

BACKGROUND Health promotion provides a key opportunity to empower young people to make informed choices regarding key health-related behaviours such as tobacco and alcohol use, sexual practices, dietary choices and physical activity. This paper describes the evaluation of a pilot School Youth Health Nurse (SYHN) Program, which aims to integrate a Registered Nurse into school communities to deli...

Physical activity (PA) provides numerous physiological and psychosocial benefits. However, lifestyle changes, including reduced PA opportunities in multiple settings, have resulted in an escalation of overweight and obesity and related health problems. Poor physical and mental health, including metabolic and cardiovascular problems is seen in progressively younger ages, and the systematic decli...