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To discuss and identify ways to maximize the impact of the 2008 Physical Activity Guidelines for Americans (PAG) across the Aging Network. Organizations and groups should attempt to relay messages about physical activity to older adults by using existing health networks to share information and advice about physical activity. All Aging Network organizations with a mission to promote active aging should be encouraged to become active participants in the National Physical Activity Plan.
It is essential to identify people suffering from chronic degenerative diseases early on and to register them at health centers (HCs) to successfully control risk factors for these diseases. The objective of the Floripativa program is to implement rehabilitation, prevention, and health promotion at the HCs in Florianopolis, SC, Brazil. To unify the programs already in existence, a single program was created (Floripativa), designed to act through rehabilitation, prevention and promotion in ...
An educational opportunity is available to individual’s to improve the public’s health by increasing the number of public health researchers and practitioners who have expertise in the relationship between physical activity and health in populations. The Physical Activity and Public Health Course (PAPH), sponsored by the University of South Carolina Prevention Research Center and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, is offering training for researchers and public health ...
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is seeking a research fellow to participate in conducting systematic reviews related to communitywide health promotion and disease prevention interventions. Candidates should have obtained, within the last 5 years, a doctoral or master’s degree in public health, psychology, or a related discipline. Please reference project CDC-NCHM-2009-0013.
Although children and adolescents respond and adapt to exercise and physical activity in much the same way that adults do, physiological differences between children and adults do exist and must be considered. To achieve optimal results during exercise evaluations of children, the proper testing environment is critical. Pictures of children performing various aspects of the exercise test are also useful in helping younger children to understand what is expected and to feel more at ease.
Online applications are available for the 2010 Physical Activity and Public Health Courses, sponsored by the University of South Carolina Prevention Research Center and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The PAPH courses feature an eight-day Postgraduate Course on Research Directions and Strategies and a six-day Practitioner’s Course on Community Interventions. The 2010 Physical Activity and Public Health Courses will be held September 14-22, 2010, at The Lodge at the Mountain ...
The National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS), an agency of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), will hold its 2010 National Conference on Health Statistics on August 16–18, 2010, in Washington, D.C. (This conference was previously called the Data Users Conference.) For more information, go to http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/events/nchs.htm.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), a part of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, is the primary federal agency for conducting and supporting public health activities in the United States. CDC’s focus is not only on scientific excellence but also on the essential spirit that is CDC: to protect the health of all people. Composed of the Office of the Director, the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, and six coordinating centers, CDC employs ...
According to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) National Center for Health Statistics, the number of people who went without needed prescription drugs because of costs nearly doubled to 11 percent in 2009, up from 6 percent in 1997. This information was released in the CDC’s annual report on the nation’s health, which is a round-up of health data from state and federal health agencies. For more highlighted information from this report, read the entire article at http...
If the obesogenic genetic risk profile has remained the same in humans since the obesity epidemic began, what has changed? Numerous genetic factors may contribute to an obesogenic genetic risk profile, but this profile is only an indicator of the potential for someone to gain excess weight under obesogenic conditions. The simple answer is that our environment has changed; the complexity lies in determining the aspects of our environment that have changed to make it obesogenic and how we can...
