Adolescent obesity in Southern Appalachian is among the highest in the nation. Even though adolescent obesity is a major public health concern, effective interventions are limited. Team Up for Healthy Living is a cluster-randomized control trial developed to test the effectiveness of a cross-peer intervention with high school students focusing on healthy eating and physical activity. This instr...

We argue and demonstrate that setting high standards, an essential aspect of perfectionism, is not associated with maladaptive responses in and of itself. Rather, our findings suggest that people’s responses to their perceptions that they consistently fail to meet their own standards are maladaptive. More importantly, in the present survey study (n1⁄4 293), we extend previous research by showin...

Ambient Assisted Living (AAL) is an emerging multi-disciplinary field aiming at exploiting information and communication technologies in personal healthcare and telehealth systems for countering the effects of growing elderly population. AAL systems are developed for personalized, adaptive, and anticipatory requirements, necessitating high quality-of-service to achieve interoperability, usabili...

A common theme throughout the notes in this series is the examination of disparities in a particular health variable (be it health status, or usage of health services, or payments for health care, or whatever) across people with different standards of living. For example, the concern might to be to see whether gaps in health outcomes between the poor and better off have grown, or whether they a...

Abstract The living standards of the working classes during industrialization continue to be subject debate in European historiography. However, other factors closely related institutional setting, such as role played by social economy and institutions for collective action, are seldom considered. This study focuses on these factors, attempts quantify impact consumer cooperatives. We argue that...