BACKGROUND The Guide for Useful Interventions for Activity in Brazil and Latin America (GUIA), a systematic review of community-based physical activity (PA) interventions in Latin American literature, selected the CuritibAtiva program for a comprehensive evaluation. We describe the process of developing logic models (LM) of PA community interventions from Curitiba, Brazil, and discuss influenti...

background: injuries are the first leading but predictable, avoidable and preventable cause of death among under five-year children worldwide. the present study aimed to identify the factors associated with mothers' beliefs and practices concerning injury prevention in under five-year children . methods: this cross-sectional study was conducted from august to october 2011 in hamadan county, the...

OBJECTIVE To identify areas of priority and activity for international sportsfederations (IFs) with respect to athlete health and safety, and global health. Results serve to direct the work of the Association of Summer Olympic IF Medical and Scientific Consultative Group, the International Olympic Committee and to influence IFs' planning and priorities. METHODS The 28 IFs participating in the...

Technology has become a necessity for many people even in carrying out daily activities. is used various ways such as sales promotion, data management or conducting transactions. Based on observations that have been made, there are still shops the Tegal area, especially curtain use manual system. One of them at Edo Gorden Store which an MSME City sells manually so it not well organized from rec...

This paper argues that health promotion needs to develop an approach to evaluation and effectiveness that values qualitative methodologies. It posits the idea that qualitative research could learn from the experience of quantitative researchers and promote more useful ways of measuring effectiveness by the use of intermediate and indirect indicators. It refers to a European-wide project designe...

Being born small-for-gestational age and a rapid increase in weight during early childhood and infancy has been strongly linked with chronic diseases, including metabolic syndrome, which has been related to intrauterine life environment and linked to epigenetic fetal programming. Metabolic syndrome includes waist circumference ≥ 90(th) percentile for age, sex and race, higher levels of blood pr...

Generic programming, a form of abstraction in programming languages that serves to reduce code duplication by exploiting the regular structure of algebraic datatypes, has been present in the Haskell language in different forms for many years. Lately, a library for generic deriving has been given native support in the compiler, allowing programmers to write functions such as fmap that abstract o...