Elizabeth A Baker

..Active Living by Design (ALbD) partnerships were established to change environments and policies as well as support complementary programs and promotions to increase physical activity in 25 communities across the U.S...

..Public health agencies serve a wide range of populations with varying levels of resources. Our survey tool allows an individual agency to collect data that reflects its unique workforce...

..The decision-making process involves the identification and evaluation of criteria supporting or Refuting use of intervention approaches based on previous work in the field...

..However, participants emphasize that factors external to the course influence their ability to engage in the EBPH process they learned...

..The question guiding the current study was whether all communities have equal access to foods that enable individuals to make healthy dietary choices...

..The market is run with an eye toward sustainability, with partners from academia, a local faith-based community organization, businesses, and community members collaborating to make all program decisions...

..Efforts to target counties aimed at increasing breast-cancer screening based on their level of deprivation will not likely be beneficial...

..To translate intervention strategies to increase physical activity interventions recommended by the Community Guide for higher and lower income African-American adults living in an urban, Midwestern community...

..Implementation activities focused on trail maintenance and addition of amenities (e.g., playgrounds, benches). In the area of evaluation, they collect data via interviews with walkers on trails and community telephone surveys...

..This study investigated state and territorial chronic disease practitioners' self-reported barriers to evidence-based decision making (EBDM)...

..These data suggest the importance of professional training opportunities in EBPH for public health practitioners. Future endeavors should focus on overcoming the barriers to the dissemination of EBPH...

..Previous research suggests that walking is the most common form of physical activity; however, not all built environments support walking for recreational or transportation purposes...

..Specifically, it identified barriers to using EBDM commonly faced by state-level chronic disease practitioners and solutions for increasing the use of EBDM...

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..A goal of Healthy People 2010 was to reduce health disparities. We determined the extent of reductions in geographic disparities in five breast cancer screening indicators...

..Research has not established (1) if breast cancer screening varies by county-level proportion of uninsured or (2) whether county-level-proportion of uninsured correlates with county-level early-stage and late-stage breast cancer incidence...

..To take full advantage of new technology and tools and to combat new health challenges, public health practitioners must continually improve their skills...

..Previous research suggests that access to recreational resources might influence physical activity. Little research, however, has looked at both access to and the characteristics of recreational resources and physical activity...

..Ecologic models are often recommended to promote physical activity, yet sparse data exist on their effectiveness...

..Overall, these tools seek to aid partnerships in achieving the best possible chronic disease outcomes...

..To determine the relationship between physical and social environment attributes and levels of physical activity in a population-based sample of diabetic individuals living in rural areas...

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..The qualitative data collected support a proposed framework and helps to establish a process for maintaining successful interventions based on several important factors that impact dissemination...

..However, to understand and address locally relevant root factors of health, it is essential to engage the broader community in participatory dialogues around these factors...

..The findings can be used to design future competency-based training programs to build the capacity for chronic disease programs in state and territorial health departments...

..Additional analyses indicated that greater perceived PSFs were associated with meeting these recommendations among Whites but not among African Americans...

..This article seeks to address this gap in the literature by identifying organizational capacity variables that may have influenced the delivery of a dietary change program...

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..These courses illustrate the commitment of the Prevention Research Centers Program to helping create a better trained public health workforce, thereby enhancing the likelihood of improving public health...