A newly formed International Association for Worksite Health Promotion (IAWHP) is dedicated to worksite health and encouraging employees to be active and healthy. CDC and The Coca-Cola Company support IAWHP.
Manel Kappagoda and Lori Stern discussed way to create a healthier school food environment at the Celebrating Educational Opportunities for Students of All Cultures Conference in Austin, TX, on March 27. They presented on the Alliance’s tools for schools on implementing successful school wellness policies and NPLAN’s model advertising policies and model beverage vending contract.
This study aimed to determine the most acceptable and effective front-of-pack food labelling system for Australian consumers. Four systems were tested, including two variations of the GDA (Monochrome and Colour-Coded) and two variations of the Traffic Light (TL and TL + Overall Rating. 790 consumers took part in the survey. The TL system was the most effective in assisting consumers to identify healthier foods. Mandatory TL labelling regulations are recommended to assist consumers in making healthy food choices.
The purpose of this study was a comparative international physical activity across 20 countries. Between 2002-2004, a standardised protocol using IPAQ was used to assess PA participation in 20 countries in 52,746 people aged 18-65 years.
Development of new physical activity and sedentary behavior change self-efficacy questionnaires
Apr 3
A new physical activity and sedentary behavior change self-efficacy scale have fewer items than classical test theory derived alternatives and have reasonable validity for boys, but more work is needed to develop comparable scales for girls.
Congress can fight the epidemic of childhood obesity by getting “junk” food out of school stores and snack machines, a parent-teacher group and the American Dietetic Association said on Tuesday.
The association between eating out and weight-related diseases has led to demands for nutritional labeling of restaurant foods. A new study examines the potential benefits of such labeling.
This free web-based seminar series aims to increase skills of researchers and practitioners in policy evaluation effectiveness.
The plenary sessions from the 20th National Conference on Chronic Disease Prevention and Control are now available to be viewed on-demand.
Some interventions are providing information and motivating individuals to modify their behaviors. Other interventions are modifying environmental forces through social policies. There is a tension between empowering individuals to manage their weight through diet and exercise and blaming them for failure to do so. Environments differ in their health-promoting resources; for example, poorer communities have fewer supermarkets, more fast-food outlets, and fewer accessible and safe recreational opportunities. A social justice perspective facilitates a synthesis of both models. The concept of ‘œbehavioral justice’ convey the principle that individuals are responsible for engaging in health-promoting behaviors but should be held accountable only when they have adequate resources to do so. This perspective maintains both individuals’ control and accountability for behaviors and society’s responsibility to provide health-promoting environments.