Preventive medicine
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This paper aims to contrast the demographic correlates of leisure and transportation walking. ⋯ Leisure and transportation walking have distinctly different demographic correlates. These differences should guide interventions aimed at influencing walking for different purposes.
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Preventive medicine · Sep 2008
Linking Global Youth Tobacco Survey (GYTS) data to the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC): the case for the Seychelles.
Tobacco control has been recognized as a main public health concern in Seychelles for the past two decades. Tobacco advertising, sponsoring and promotion has been banned for years, tobacco products are submitted to high taxes, high-profile awareness programs are organized regularly, and several other control measures have been implemented. The Republic of Seychelles was the first country to ratify the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC) in the African region. ⋯ Although "current smoking" is defined differently in adolescents (>or=1 cigarette during the past 30 days) and in adults (>or=1 cigarette per day), which precludes direct comparison, the high smoking prevalence in youth in Seychelles likely predicts an increasing prevalence of tobacco use in the next adult generation, particularly in women. GYTS 2002 also provides important data on a wide range of specific individual and societal factors influencing tobacco use. Hence, GYTS can be a powerful tool for monitoring the situation of tobacco use in adolescents, for highlighting the need for new policy and programs, and for evaluating the impact of current and future programs.
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Preventive medicine · Sep 2008
Relation of leisure time, occupational, domestic, and commuting physical activity to health indicators in Europe.
To investigate relationships between physical activities in different domains (leisure time, occupational, domestic, commuting) and health indicators (self-rated health, body mass index). ⋯ Domains of physical activity being related to health indicators, they may pertain to surveillance.
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Preventive medicine · Sep 2008
Overweight children: assessing the contribution of the built environment.
To examine the relationship between the built environment and overweight status in children. ⋯ The results of this study emphasize a particular importance of the built environment of the neighborhood for weight status of children and adolescents.