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| L A LinnanSummaryAffiliation: University of North Carolina Country: USA Publications
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Beauty salons: a promising health promotion setting for reaching and promoting health among African American womenLaura A Linnan
Department of Health Behavior and Health Education, School of Public Health, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC, USA
Health Educ Behav 34:517-30. 2007....
Organizational- and employee-level recruitment into a worksite-based weight loss studyLaura Linnan
University of North Carolina Gillings School of Public Health, Chapel Hill, NC 27599 7440, USA
Clin Trials 9:215-25. 2012..Overweight and obesity are associated with diminished health, productivity, and increased medical costs for employers. Worksite-based weight loss interventions are desirable from both employee and employer perspectives...
Who participates in internet-based worksite weight loss programs?Wen You
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Dept of Agricultural and Applied Economics, Blacksburg, Virginia, USA
BMC Public Health 11:709. 2011..The reach and representativeness are seldom examined in worksite weight loss studies. This paper describes and illustrates a method for directly assessing the reach and representativeness of a internet-based worksite weight loss program...- Results of the 2004 National Worksite Health Promotion SurveyLaura Linnan
Department of Health Behavior and Health Education, School of Public Health, University of North Carolina, CB 7440, Chapel Hill, NC 27599 7440, USA
Am J Public Health 98:1503-9. 2008..We examined worksite health promotion programs, policies, and services to monitor the achievement of the Healthy People 2010 worksite-related goal of 75% of worksites offering a comprehensive worksite health promotion program... - Small businesses, worksite wellness, and public health: a time for actionLaura A Linnan
School of Public Health, Department of Health Behavior and Health Education, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill 27599-7440, USA
N C Med J 67:433-7. 2006 - Engaging key stakeholders to assess and improve the professional preparation of MPH health educatorsLaura A Linnan
Department of Health Behavior and Health Education, Gillings School of Global Public Health, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC 27599, USA
Am J Public Health 100:1993-9. 2010.... - Assessing and promoting physical activity in African American barbershops: results of the FITStop pilot studyLaura A Linnan
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, USA
Am J Mens Health 5:38-46. 2011..92. Barbershops offer an effective setting for recruiting African American men and conducting physical measurements as well as an interesting possible location for conducting future interventions... - Planning and the professional preparation of health educators: implications for teaching, research, and practiceLaura A Linnan
Department of Health Behavior and Health Education, The School of Public Health, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, USA
Health Promot Pract 6:308-19. 2005..Content analysis of 56 course syllabi revealed that 80% (45/56) required students to complete a program plan proposal or document as the culminating project for the course. Implications for teaching, research, and practice are discussed... - Norms and their relationship to behavior in worksite settings: an application of the Jackson Return Potential ModelLaura Linnan
University of North Carolina Chapel Hill, School of Public Health, Chapel Hill, NC, USA
Am J Health Behav 29:258-68. 2005..To measure health norms and assess their influence on behavior among 2541 employees in 16 manufacturing worksites using an adapted Jackson's Return Potential Model (RPM)... - Views about secondhand smoke and smoke-free policies among North Carolina restaurant owners before passage of a law to prohibit smokingLaura A Linnan
Department of Health Behavior and Health Education, Gillings School of Global Public Health, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA
N C Med J 71:325-33. 2010.... - Public librarians as a resource for promoting health: results from the Health for Everyone in Libraries Project (HELP) librarian surveyLaura A Linnan
School of Public Health University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA
Health Promot Pract 5:182-90. 2004..Creating public library/public health partnerships holds much promise for enhancing the ability of community members to access desired health information... - Challenges to improving the impact of worksite cancer prevention programs: comparing reach, enrollment, and attrition using active versus passive recruitment strategiesLaura A Linnan
Center for Behavioral and Preventive Medicine, Brown University Medical School, USA
Ann Behav Med 24:157-66. 2002..Implications of these results for the design of future worksite studies that involve multilevel recruitment methods are discussed... - Beauty and the beast: results of the Rhode Island smokefree shop initiativeLaura A Linnan
Center for Behavioral and Preventive Medicine, The Miriam Hospital, Brown University School of Medicine, Providence, RI, USA
Am J Public Health 92:27-8. 2002..A statewide survey of hairdressing facilities was followed by interventions targeted to the readiness level (high/low) of respondents to adopt smoke-free policies... - Working with licensed cosmetologists to promote health: results from the North Carolina BEAUTY and Health Pilot StudyL A Linnan
Department of Health Behavior and Health Education, School of Public Health, University of North Carolina School of Public Health, Chapel Hill, NC 27599 7440, USA
Prev Med 33:606-12. 2001..No previous salon-based health promotion program has assessed the needs, interests, and preferences of licensed cosmetologists about sharing health information with their clients... - Manager beliefs regarding worksite health promotion: findings from the Working Healthy Project 2Laura Linnan
Department of Health Behavior and Health Education, School of Public Health, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, CB 7440, Chapel Hill, NC 27599 7440 USA
Am J Health Promot 21:521-8. 2007..To explore differences in manager beliefs about worksite health promotion programs (HPPs)... - Using theory to understand the multiple determinants of low participation in worksite health promotion programsL A Linnan
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, School of Public Health, 27599, USA
Health Educ Behav 28:591-607. 2001..The authors argue that using theory to investigate the full spectrum of determinants offers a more complete range of intervention and research options for maximizing employee and worksite levels of participation... - Using organization theory to understand the determinants of effective implementation of worksite health promotion programsBryan J Weiner
Department of Health Policy dministration, CB 7411, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC 27599, USA
Health Educ Res 24:292-305. 2009..An organization-level theory of the determinants of effective implementation of worksite health promotion programs... - Implementation challenges in worksite health promotion programsBenjamin E Birken
University Steering Committee for Worker Health, Safety and Wellness, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill 27599-7426, USA
N C Med J 67:438-41. 2006 - Promotion of walking for transportation: a report from the Walk to School day registryAmber E Vaughn
Center for Health Promotion and Disease Prevention, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, NC, USA
J Phys Act Health 6:281-8. 2009..However, little systematic evaluation of existing programs, such as Walk to School (WTS), has occurred... - Observational study in ten beauty salons: results informing development of the North Carolina BEAUTY and Health ProjectFelicia M Solomon
Department of Health Behavior and Health Education, School of Public Health, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 27599-7440, USA
Health Educ Behav 31:790-807. 2004..Implications for planning salon-based health promotion interventions--including the training of licensed cosmetologists to deliver health messages--are discussed in light of these findings... - "Una mujer trabaja doble aqui": Vignette-based focus groups on stress and work for Latina blue-collar women in eastern North CarolinaMichele M Easter
Department of Social Medicine, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, NC, USA
Health Promot Pract 8:41-9. 2007..Results from the focus groups are used to make recommendations for future research with Latinas and for developing effective work-site-based interventions to address issues of stress and health within this population... - Using the PRECEDE model to plan men's health programs in a managed care settingMargaret George Meador
Quality Improvement Department, Blue Cross and Blue Shield of North Carolina, Durham, USA
Health Promot Pract 7:186-96. 2006.... - Using community-based participatory research methods to reach women with health messages: results from the North Carolina BEAUTY and Health Pilot ProjectLaura A Linnan
School of Public Health University, North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA
Health Promot Pract 6:164-73. 2005..It appears that trained licensed cosmetologists are effective in promoting health messages to their customers... - A pilot study testing the effect of different levels of financial incentives on weight loss among overweight employeesEric A Finkelstein
RTI International, 3040 Cornwallis Road, PO Box 12194, Research Triangle Park, NC 27709, USA
J Occup Environ Med 49:981-9. 2007..To test the ability of two levels of modest financial incentives to encourage weight loss among overweight employees...
Research Grants
- Interventions to Control Obesity in Community CollegesLaura Linnan; Fiscal Year: 2006..abstract_text> ..
- Interventions to Control Obesity in CollegesLaura Linnan; Fiscal Year: 2007..If proven effective, this strong partnership model combined with powerful economic data offer a unique opportunity for intervention institutionalization and dissemination throughout the community college campus system. ..
- Promoting CIS Among Black Men in BarbershopsLaura Linnan; Fiscal Year: 2007....
- Interventions to Control Obesity in CollegesLaura Linnan; Fiscal Year: 2009..If proven effective, this strong partnership model combined with powerful economic data offer a unique opportunity for intervention institutionalization and dissemination throughout the community college campus system. ..
- Interventions to Control Obesity in CollegesLaura A Linnan; Fiscal Year: 2010..If proven effective, this strong partnership model combined with powerful economic data offer a unique opportunity for intervention institutionalization and dissemination throughout the community college campus system. ..