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Applying Community-Based Participatory Research Partnership Principles to Public Health Practice-Based Research Networks
(2016)
With real-world relevance and translatability as important goals, applied methodological approaches have arisen along the
participatory continuum that value context and empower stakeholders to partner actively with academics ...
A community-based lifestyle and weight loss intervention promoting a Mediterranean-style diet pattern evaluated in the stroke belt of North Carolina: the Heart Healthy Lenoir Project
(2016-08-05)
Abstract
Background
Because residents of the southeastern United States experience disproportionally high rates of cardiovascular disease (CVD), it is important to develop ...
Maternal cadmium, iron and zinc levels, DNA methylation and birth weight
(2015-07)
Background
Cadmium (Cd) is a ubiquitous and environmentally persistent toxic metal that has been implicated in neurotoxicity, carcinogenesis and obesity and essential metals including zinc (Zn) and iron (Fe) may alter ...
Farmers’ market use is associated with fruit and vegetable consumption in diverse southern rural communities
(2014)
Background
While farmers’ markets are a potential strategy to increase access to fruits and vegetables in rural areas, more information is needed regarding use of farmers’ markets among rural residents. Thus, this study’s ...
Blocked Randomization with Randomly Selected Block Sizes
(2011-01)
When planning a randomized clinical trial, careful consideration must be given to how participants are selected for various arms of a study. Selection and accidental bias may occur when participants are not assigned to ...
Developing an agenda for research about policies to improve access to healthy foods in rural communities: a concept mapping study
(2014)
Background
Policies that improve access to healthy, affordable foods may improve population health and reduce health disparities. In the United States most food access policy research focuses on urban communities even ...
Measures of the Consumer Food Store Environment: A Systematic Review of the Evidence 2000–2011
(2011-12)
Description of the consumer food environment has proliferated in publication. However, there has been a lack of systematic reviews focusing on how the consumer food environment is associated with the following: (1) ...
Informational Odds Ratio: A Useful Measure of Epidemiologic Association in Environment Exposure Studies
(2012)
The informational odds ratio (IOR) measures the post-exposure odds divided by the pre-exposure odds (ie, information gained after knowing exposure status). A desirable property of an adjusted ratio estimate is collapsibility ...
Associations between farmers market managers’ motivations and market-level Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program Electronic Benefit Transfer (SNAP/EBT) availability and business vitality
(2015-12-08)
Farmers markets are promoted to improve access
to healthy food for low-income consumers by
providing affordable produce via Supplemental
Nutrition Assistance Program Electronic Benefit
Transfer (SNAP/EBT). Having ...