Community education for cardiovascular disease prevention: risk factor changes in the Minnesota Heart Health Program.Objectives. The Minnesota Heart health Program is a 13-year research and demonstration project to reduce morbidity and mortality from coronary heart disease in whole communities. Methods. ...
To test whether communitywide health education can reduce stroke and coronary heart disease, we compared two treatment cities (N = 122 800) and two control cities (N = 197 500) for changes in knowledge of risk factors, blood pressure, plasma cholesterol level, smoking rate, body weight, and...
Health EducationFitch J A,Blue B E.New approaches to cardiovascular and other chronic diseases suggest a bright future for school and community health education.Health Education. 1982Fitch J A,Blue B E.New approaches to cardiovascular and other chronic diseases suggest a bright future for school ...
for reducing cardiovascular disease risk in community health centers Jennifer Hauschildt, JAMIA Open, 2023 Clinical decision support directed to primary care patients and providers reduces cardiovascular risk: a randomized trial JoAnn M Sperl-Hillen, Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association, ...
Patient outreach and educational messages are likely an important and necessary component of larger interventions designed to improve rates of clinical preventive services at CHCs, but for topics as complex as cardiovascular disease risk reduction, lay health outreach and patient education alone seems ins...
An mHealth Intervention Using a Smartphone App to Increase Walking Behavior in Young Adults: A Pilot Study Physical inactivity is a growing concern for society and is a risk factor for cardiovascular disease, obesity, and other chronic diseases. This study aimed... JC Walsh,T Corbett,M Hogan,...
Patient education, health counselling, goal setting, telephone contacts, exercise logs, social/peer support and positive feedback either alone or in various combinations, have been studied in cardiovascular disease [27–30] and rheumatoid arthritis [31]. As with OA, multifaceted approaches appear to...
A similar response was identified in Brazil where SDM is not universally incorporated into clinical practice due to issues ranging from the need for changes to medical education and resistance of health care professionals to the principles of SDM [78]. In Switzerland, despite the provision of ...
After controlling for age, education level, marital status, place of residence, types of chronic diseases, Oral health status, and frailty status, we examined the mediating effect of nutrition on the relationship between oral frailty and fall risk. The results showed that oral frailty was a signi...
According to a cluster randomized controlled trial conducted in West Gojam Zone, Ethiopia, nurses were counseled for the intervention group and routine nutrition education was given by the health system for the control group, and a higher proportion of newborns in the control group (14.7% vs. ...