American journal of preventive medicine
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The afterschool period holds promise for the promotion of physical activity, yet little is known about the importance of this period as children age. ⋯ The importance of the afterschool period for children's physical activity increases with age, particularly as children enter adolescence.
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The federal menu labeling law will require chain restaurants to post caloric information on menus, but the impact of labeling is uncertain. ⋯ Mean calories per purchase decreased 18 months after implementation of menu labeling in some restaurant chains and among women but not men.
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Quality improvement (QI) is increasingly recognized as an important strategy to improve healthcare services and health outcomes, including reducing health disparities. However, there is a paucity of evidence documenting the value of QI to public health agencies and services. ⋯ The application of QI combined with a summative and developmental evaluation supported refinement of the QI approach and documented the potential for QI to improve population health outcomes and improve public health agency culture.
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Population mental health surveillance is an important challenge limited by resource constraints, long time lags in data collection, and stigma. One promising approach to bridge similar gaps elsewhere has been the use of passively generated digital data. ⋯ Information seeking on Google across all major mental illnesses and/or problems followed seasonal patterns similar to those found for seasonal affective disorder. These are the first data published on patterns of seasonality in information seeking encompassing all the major mental illnesses, notable also because they likely would have gone undetected using traditional surveillance.