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Download full textAfterschool Alliance, 2025
Physical activity and healthy eating are instrumental to a child's overall healthy development, resulting in a number of positive outcomes, like better academic performance and lower risk of depression. Yet, most young people are not meeting the recommended daily amount of physical activity, are not eating enough vegetables or fruits, and are…
Descriptors: Physical Activity Level, Health Behavior, Eating Habits, Child Development
Peer reviewedPorta, Carolyn M.; Mann, Erin M.; Amiri, Rohina; Avery, Melissa D.; Azim, Sheba; Conway-Klaassen, Janice M.; Golzareh, Parvin; Joya, Mahdawi; Mwikarago, Emil Ivan; Nejabi, Mohammad Bashir; Olejniczak, Megan; Radhakrishnan, Raghu; Tengera, Olive; Thomas, Manuel S.; Weinkauf, Julia L.; Wiesner, Stephen M. – International Journal of Higher Education, 2020
Despite ongoing insecurity, Afghanistan has demonstrated improvement in health outcomes. Reasons for this success include a strategic public-private health service delivery model and investment in Afghan health care workforce development. Afghan universities have the primary responsibility for ensuring that an adequate health care workforce is…
Descriptors: Health Services, Public Health, Delivery Systems, Labor Force Development
Direct linkParks, Michael J.; Kim, Soyoon – Health Education & Behavior, 2018
Background: It is a priority to develop population-based strategies for reducing barriers to smoking cessation among low-income populations. Harnessing secondary transmission such as interpersonal communication (IC) has helped to reduce tobacco use, but there is a dearth of quasi-experimental research that examines IC and the full spectrum of…
Descriptors: Interpersonal Communication, Smoking, Predictor Variables, Barriers
Lytle, Leslie A.; Moe, Stacey G.; Nanney, M. Susie; Laska, Melissa N.; Linde, Jennifer A.; Petrich, Christine A.; Sevcik, Sarah M. – American Journal of Health Education, 2014
Background: Young adults are at risk for weight gain. Little is known about how to design weight control programs to meet the needs of young adults and few theory-based interventions have been evaluated in a randomized control trial. The Choosing Healthy Options in College Environments and Settings (CHOICES) study was funded to create a…
Descriptors: Program Design, Body Weight, Prevention, Community Colleges
Pelletier, Jennifer E.; Lytle, Leslie A.; Laska, Melissa N. – Health Education & Behavior, 2016
The objective of this study was to describe the relationship between stress, weight-related health risk behaviors (e.g., eating behaviors, physical activity, sedentary behavior, sleep, cigarette smoking, and binge drinking), and weight status using cross-sectional data on 2-year community college students enrolled in a randomized controlled weight…
Descriptors: Stress Variables, Case Studies, Regression (Statistics), Correlation
Cohen, Julie; Oser, Cindy; Quigley, Kelsey – ZERO TO THREE, 2013
The issue of early childhood trauma is becoming more prominent in early childhood policy discussions, driven by a growing recognition of the potentially devastating impacts of trauma and violence on infants, toddlers, and families. This article provides facts about the impacts of trauma and other adverse early experiences on child health and…
Descriptors: Public Policy, Trauma, Infants, Toddlers
US Department of Education, 2014
The human brain develops rapidly in the first five years of life. High-quality early learning experiences can have a profound and lasting positive effect on young children during these years, setting the stage for success in kindergarten and beyond. This is especially true for young children with high needs who are from low-income families; who…
Descriptors: Educational Legislation, Federal Legislation, Federal Aid, Federal Programs
Halaas, Gwen Wagstrom; Zink, Therese; Finstad, Deborah; Bolin, Keli; Center, Bruce – Journal of Rural Health, 2008
Context: Founded in 1971 with state funding to increase the number of primary care physicians in rural Minnesota, the Rural Physician Associate Program (RPAP) has graduated 1,175 students. Third-year medical students are assigned to primary care physicians in rural communities for 9 months where they experience the realities of rural practice with…
Descriptors: Medical Students, Physicians, Public Health, Family Practice (Medicine)
Minnesota Higher Education Coordinating Commission, St. Paul. – 1970
Report of information on enrollment at 66 Minnesota institutions and programs in five categories (clerical, nursing, personal and community health, rehabilitation and therapy, and technology); student completion; maximum student training capabilities; and possibilities for enlarging programs to meet demands for graduates. More than half the…
Descriptors: Allied Health Occupations, Allied Health Occupations Education, Educational Programs, Health Personnel
Minnesota State Dept. of Economic Security, St. Paul. – 1995
This report to the Minnesota legislature examines children and their families who participated in the Head Start program during 1993-1994, and summarizes information on the following program areas: (1) Head Start program overview; (2) funding facts; (3) program year 1993-1994 activities; and (4) agency specific information. The Head Start program…
Descriptors: Child Health, Child Welfare, Childhood Needs, Children
Boyte, Harry C. – Kettering Foundation, 2009
In this paper, the author provides a buffet of ideas to make a coherent case for a democracy in which citizens can be truly sovereign by becoming the agents of their own destiny. He traces the history of various trends which threaten the development of civic agency: technocracy, specialism, and a consumer-view of the citizen, among others. He also…
Descriptors: Democracy, Educational Change, Expertise, Citizenship
Minnesota State Dept. of Education, St. Paul. Evaluation Section. – 1993
This report examines the Way to Grow (WTG) school readiness program, which is designed to promote healthy development and school readiness of Minnesota children from birth through age 6 by coordinating and improving access to community-based health, education, and social services. This pilot program began in fiscal year 1990 and was being…
Descriptors: Agency Cooperation, Child Health, Community Programs, Coordination
Fusco, Gene C. – Office of Education, US Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, 1961
Recent years have brought an upsurge of interest and concern among school administrators and others regarding the administrative and specialized services that are necessary for providing sound educational programs and maintaining school system efficiency. In response to that growing interest and concern, the Office of Education and the American…
Descriptors: Educational History, Pupil Personnel Services, Program Descriptions, Program Administration
Richardson, Donna – 1975
The project described in the report provided onsite consultation and inservice to secondary health occupations instructors in Minnesota in the utilization of the individualized curriculum previously developed by Project Opportunity for secondary exploratory health occupations programs. In addition to the individualized consultations provided,…
Descriptors: Allied Health Occupations Education, Consultation Programs, Individualized Instruction, Inservice Teacher Education
Minnesota State Dept. of Health, St. Paul. – 1996
This report discusses the activities of Minnesota's Medical Education and Research Costs (MERC) project, which was undertaken to gather data on the costs of medical education and health care research conducted by hospitals, medical centers, and health maintenance organizations and to develop mechanisms to assess the costs across the health care…
Descriptors: Costs, Financial Support, Health Personnel, Higher Education
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