Obesity intervention among African-American children and adolescents

ML Baskin, HK Ahluwalia, K Resnicow - Pediatric Clinics of North America, 2001 - Elsevier
An overwhelming body of evidence indicates a need for obesity prevention and treatment
programs for American youth. In the 1970s, only 6% to 8% of US children and adolescents …

Addressing cultural sensitivity in a smoking cessation intervention: Development of the Kick It at Swope project

KJ Harris, JS Ahluwalia, KS Okuyemi… - Journal of …, 2001 - Wiley Online Library
There are marked and growing disparities in the health status among different racial/ethnic
groups. Most researchers and practitioners agree health interventions that are tailored for …

Salud para su Corazón: evaluating cardiovascular health outreach activities in the Latino community

H Balcazar, M Alvarado, R Alcalay… - Medicine of the …, 2001 - go.gale.com
In this article we describe several process evaluation activities of Salud parasu Corazon
(Health for your Heart), a community-based Latino cardiovascular disease prevention and …

[图书][B] Measurement and health-related correlates of collectivism, spirituality, racial pride and time orientation in urban black women

SN Lukwago - 2001 - search.proquest.com
Culture, which has been defined as “the integrated pattern of human behavior that includes
thoughts, communications, actions, customs, beliefs, values and institutions of a racial …

Identifying crosscultural differences in the effectiveness of an information and free child seat rental program

CG Sibley, M Hunt, DN Harper - Behaviour Change, 2001 - cambridge.org
Porirua (a suburb in Wellington, New Zealand) is a problem area for child restraint use and
has been targeted by a variety of government-initiated, and largely ineffective, traffic safety …