HealthKick: a nutrition and physical activity intervention for primary schools in low-income settings
This study highlights the key role that educators play in implementing school-based interventions, and the importance to continue recognizing the influence of the home environment on healthy eating and physical activity... Journal Review
The Abu Dhabi cardiovascular program: The continuation of Framingham
The Abu Dhabi approach to reducing CVD risk has created a solid platform for scalable intervention, and for "learning by doing," with impact being monitored at the level of individuals, groups and the whole population... Journal Review
WCC 2010 Report
The World Congress of Cardiology was held in Beijing on 16 June to 19 June, 2010. Below are links to ProCor's coverage of the conference... Conference Report
Integrated non-communicable disease control program in a northern part of India
Integrated NCD control programs are feasible through health services in a low resources setting by capacity building of health staff, logistic support, provision of essential drugs and by adopting a health promotion model focusing on common risk factors in different settings... Journal Review
Policy support, norms, and secondhand smoke exposure before and after implementation of a comprehensive smoke-free law in Mexico City
Popular support for smoke-free laws in Mexico City is growing and it will be interesting to assess how support changes and how the laws help smokers quit or reduce the number of cigarettes smoked per day... Journal Review
Tools for building clinic-community partnerships to support chronic disease control and prevention
This article introduces a framework for building chronic disease partnerships that lends itself to evaluation of partnership contributions toward accomplishment of outcomes, and checklist tools to help partnerships examine the process of partnership across phases of the framework... Journal Summary
Workplace tobacco cessation program in India: A success story
An innovative tobacco cessation program changed the atmosphere regarding tobacco consumption on an entire industrial campus, thus exemplifying how peer pressure can bring about a positive change in the life style of an entire group... Journal Review
Dietary sources of sodium in China, Japan, the United Kingdom, and the United States, women and men aged 40 to 59 years: The INTERMAP study
The present study assessed the main dietary sources of salt intake in various Western and Asian populations and gave some strategies to prevent and control hypertension and improve health... Journal Review
Ceremonial tobacco use in the Andes: implications for smoking prevention among indigenous youth
Smoking prevention programs targeting indigenous youth could benefit from studies like this one that assist in the identification of cultural factors that may enhance youth resilience to pressures to smoke... Journal Review
School-based intervention to promote healthy lifestyles in Sousse, Tunisia
Children exhibit risk factors for CVD that often persist into adulthood and this pilot study demonstrated the potential of schools as suitable settings for early intervention efforts to promote cardiovascular health in children... Journal Review
Medication adherence, self-care behaviour and knowledge on heart failure in urban South Africa: the Heart of Soweto study
Chronic heart failure treatment is a significant problem in South Africa because education about CHF is not optimal and knowledge on CHF medication and management is poor... Journal Review
A system dynamics model for planning cardiovascular disease interventions
System dynamics simulation models help policymakers understand the impact of different interventions to find those that have the greatest leverage in the short term and in the longer term. The simulations with this model have revealed strategies that can have an impact on CVD while operating within realistic resource constraints... Journal Review
Thirty-five-year trends in cardiovascular risk factors in Finland
Opposed to investing large amounts of resources in expensive "new" treatments, a community based program can lead to a significant decrease in coronary heart disease (CHD) mortality... Journal Review
Decreases in smoking prevalence in Asian communities served by the Racial and Ethnic Approaches to Community Health (REACH) project
Decreases in smoking prevalence in Asian communities served by the REACH project highlight the value of working with communities to improve the health and well-being of minority community members... Journal Review
Effect of school based physical activity programme (KISS) on fitness and adiposity in primary schoolchildren: cluster randomised controlled trial
Obesity in children has been increasing at a remarkable rate in the last decade in both developed and developing countries. This article presents the assessment of a school based, multi-component physical activity intervention which improved physical activity and fitness and reduced adiposity in children... Journal Review
Reaching Spanish-speaking smokers: State-level evidence of untapped potential for Quitline utilization.
Telephone quitline, rarely available in developing countries, are proving to be a successful and cost-effective way in aiding smokers to quit. As this study reveals, a media campaign targeting a specific ethnic group can be effective in increasing quit rates and quitline calls... Journal Review
For children, Mediterranean diet not enough
Adherence to the Mediterranean diet was inversely associated with obesity in children, but other factors such as maternal obesity, gender, physical activity status, and dietary beliefs and behaviors were more significantly associated with obesity.... Journal Review
Physician training and home health education to lower BP in Pakistan
Twin strategies of health education delivered at home by trained community health workers and training of local GPs in hypertension management was found to significantly lower blood pressure as well as increase the proportion of hypertensives with controlled blood pressure... Journal Review
Nurse-managed, lay-led tobacco cessation in a poor setting
This study highlights the potential important role of nurses and non-health professionals in overall chronic disease risk reduction strategies in developing countries with scarce resources... Journal Review
Comparison of radio and television anti-smoking campaigns
Radio can provide a cost-effective alternative to television anti-smoking campaigns.... Journal Review
