Maintenance of the Classroom Health Education Curricula: Results from the Catch-on Study

2003 ◽  
Vol 30 (4) ◽  
pp. 476-488 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carolyn C. Johnson ◽  
Donglin Li ◽  
Todd Galati ◽  
Sheryl Pedersen ◽  
Mary Smyth ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Health Promotion ◽  
Health Education ◽  
Future Development ◽  
Field Trial ◽  
Cardiovascular Health ◽  
The United States ◽  
Perceived Support ◽  
Fifth Grade ◽  
Main Field

Maintenance of the interactive Child and Adolescent Trial for Cardiovascular Health (CATCH) third- to fifth-grade curricula was studied in the 56 original intervention schools and 20 of the original control schools 5 years postintervention in four regions of the United States. Target grade teachers completed a self-administered survey that included questions regarding use of the CATCH materials, training in CATCH or other health education, barriers and perceived support for health education, and amount of health education currently taught. Percentage of teachers who continued to teach CATCH in the classroom was low; however, percentages were significantly higher in former intervention compared with control schools, even though control schools received training and materials following the main field trial. The results of this study can provide useful information for future development of classroom health promotion materials with a higher level of sustainability.

Institutionalization of a School Health Promotion Program: Background and Rationale of the Catch-on Study

2003 ◽  
Vol 30 (4) ◽  
pp. 410-417 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stavroula K. Osganian ◽  
Guy S. Parcel ◽  
Elaine J. Stone
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Health Promotion ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
School Health ◽  
Cardiovascular Health ◽  
The United States ◽  
Health Promotion Program ◽  
School Health Promotion ◽  
Theme Issue ◽  
School Based

Research is lacking on how to make effective programs available on a large scale and how to maintain levels of implementation. CATCH: A Study of Institutionalization (CATCH-ON) was designed to help us understand the conditions under which such programs are institutionalized after the trial has ended. The Child and Adolescent Trial for Cardiovascular Health (CATCH) was the largest field trial of school-based health promotion in the United States conducted in 96 schools in four geographic areas of the United States: California, Louisiana, Minnesota, and Texas. The intervention was multicomponent, targeting school policy and practices in nutrition, physical activity, health education, and smoking. This report provides background on the CATCH study design, the conceptual framework for research on institutionalization of the CATCH program, and an overview of the seven original reports that present results from the CATCH-ON study in this theme issue.

Current Developments in Accreditation and Certification for Health Promotion and Health Education: A Perspective on Systems of Quality Assurance in the United States

2009 ◽  
Vol 36 (3) ◽  
pp. 451-463 ◽  
Author(s):  
Randall R. Cottrell ◽  
Linda Lysoby ◽  
Laura Rasar King ◽  
Collins O. Airhihenbuwa ◽  
Kathleen M. Roe ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Health Promotion ◽  
Quality Assurance ◽  
Health Education ◽  
The United States ◽  
Professional Preparation ◽  
Multiple Systems ◽  
Individual Level ◽  
Recent Developments ◽  
The Individual

The health education profession in the United States employs parallel, and overlapping, systems of voluntary credentialing to ensure quality in professional preparation. The U.S. approach to quality assurance comprises credentialing at the individual level, including certification, and at the institutional level, including regional and program-specific accreditation or approval of professional preparation degree programs. These multiple systems and levels of quality assurance have evolved during a half century but have not been uniformly available or universally embraced by the field, employers, or those in the institutional settings in which health educators now receive their professional preparation. This article reviews the current scope of credentialing systems in the United States and explains whom they serve and how they function. Recent developments that are now reshaping the landscape of quality assurance in health education and health promotion are also discussed.

scholarly journals Toward a Culture of Health in the United States: Introducing the HPP Arts in Public Health Supplement

2021 ◽  
Vol 22 (1_suppl) ◽  
pp. 5S-7S
Author(s):  
Jill Sonke ◽  
Lourdes Rodríguez ◽  
Melissa A. Valerio-Shewmaker
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
United States ◽  
Health Promotion ◽  
Public Health Education ◽  
The United States ◽  
The Arts ◽  
Agents Of Change ◽  
The University ◽  
Critical Public Health ◽  
Health Promotion Practice

The arts—and the arts and culture sector—offer fertile ground for achieving a culture of health in the United States. The arts and artists are agents of change and can help enable this vision and also address the most critical public health issues we are contending with, including COVID-19 and racism. The arts provide means for engaging dialogue, influencing behaviors, disrupting paradigms and fueling social movements. The arts uncover and illuminate issues. They engage us emotionally and intellectually. They challenge assumptions. They call out injustice. They drive collective action. They heal—making arts + public health collaboration very relevant in this historic moment. In this special Health Promotion Practice supplement on arts in public health, you’ll find powerful examples and evidence of how cross-sector collaboration between public health and the arts can advance health promotion goals and impacts, and make health promotion programs not only more accessible to diverse populations but also more equitable and effective in addressing the upstream systems, policies, and structures that create health disparities. You will see how the arts can empower health communication, support health literacy, provide direct and measurable health benefits to individuals and communities, and support coping and resilience in response to COVID-19. This issue itself exemplifies cross-sector collaboration, as it was created through partnership between Health Promotion Practice, the Society for Public Health Education, ArtPlace America, and the University of Florida Center for Arts in Medicine, and presents voices from across the public health, arts, and community development sectors.

Hormone Replacement Therapy and Cardiovascular Health in the United States

Medical Care ◽  
2009 ◽  
Vol 47 (5) ◽  
pp. 600-606 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kanaka D. Shetty ◽  
William B. Vogt ◽  
Jayanta Bhattacharya
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Hormone Replacement Therapy ◽  
Replacement Therapy ◽  
Cardiovascular Health ◽  
Hormone Replacement ◽  
The United States

scholarly journals Cardiovascular Health of Filipinos in the United States

2016 ◽  
Vol 27 (5) ◽  
pp. 518-528 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carol Jean Abesamis ◽  
Sharon Fruh ◽  
Heather Hall ◽  
Trey Lemley ◽  
Kimberly R. Zlomke
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Cardiovascular Health ◽  
The United States

Putting a Child in Day Care: Issues for Working Parents

PEDIATRICS ◽  
1993 ◽  
Vol 91 (1) ◽  
pp. 271-272
Author(s):  
T. Berry Brazelton
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Young Adults ◽  
World War Ii ◽  
Future Development ◽  
The United States ◽  
World War ◽  
Working Parents ◽  
Small Children ◽  
Substitute Care ◽  
Care Situation

In 1981, more than half the mothers in the United States were employed outside the home. By 1990, it was predicted that 70% of children would have two working parents. The number has been increasing each year since World War II, and 10 times as many mothers of small children work now as did in 1945. Now it is more culturally acceptable than even before for mothers to have jobs. Even so, there is still a strong bias against mothers leaving their babies in substitute care unless it is absolutely necessary. Society does not yet whole-heartedly support working mothers and their choices about substitute care. We do not have enough studies yet to know about the issues for the infant. The studies we do have are likely to be biased or based on experiences in special, often privileged populations. We need to know when it is safest for the child's future development to have to relate to two or three caregivers; what will be the effects of a group care situation on a baby's development; when babies are best able to find what they need from caregivers other than their parents; when parents are best able to separate from their babies without feeling too grieved at the loss. In a word, we need information on which to base general guidelines for parents. For it could be that the most subtle, hard-to-deal-with pressure on young adults comes indirectly from society's ambivalent and discordant attitudes, which create a void of values in which the building and nurturing of a family becomes very difficult.

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