Engaging and Mobilizing Community Members to Prevent Obesity Among Adolescents

Community-based public health interventions are designed on the premise that the community is an asset in transforming the health system for health protection. One such intervention is Diabetes Today, a training program for health professionals and lay community leaders that has been successful in b...

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Autor principal: Thompson-Reid, Patricia E.
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 2009
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2722392/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19527572
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description Community-based public health interventions are designed on the premise that the community is an asset in transforming the health system for health protection. One such intervention is Diabetes Today, a training program for health professionals and lay community leaders that has been successful in building awareness of diabetes as a public health problem. We advocate the use of this program to prevent obesity among adolescents.
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spelling pubmed-27223922009-08-25 Engaging and Mobilizing Community Members to Prevent Obesity Among Adolescents Thompson-Reid, Patricia E. Prev Chronic Dis Special Topic Community-based public health interventions are designed on the premise that the community is an asset in transforming the health system for health protection. One such intervention is Diabetes Today, a training program for health professionals and lay community leaders that has been successful in building awareness of diabetes as a public health problem. We advocate the use of this program to prevent obesity among adolescents. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 2009-06-15 /pmc/articles/PMC2722392/ /pubmed/19527572 Text en https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is a publication of the U.S. Government. This publication is in the public domain and is therefore without copyright. All text from this work may be reprinted freely. Use of these materials should be properly cited.
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