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Feasibility and Acceptability of Standardizing Portions in Restaurants
Most restaurants serve customers excess calories which significantly contributes to the obesity epidemic. This pilot study tested the feasibility and acceptability of offering customers standardized portions t...
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How Young Adults with Serious Mental Health Diagnoses Navigate Poverty Post-emancipation: The Complex Roles of Community Mental Health Services & Informal Social Support
Serious mental health diagnoses are prevalent among youth who “age out” of foster care by reaching the maximum age for child welfare service eligibility. Post-emancipation, little is known about how youth enga...
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Association Between Park Use and Moderate-to-Vigorous Activity During COVID-19 Years among a Cohort of Low-Income Youth
Neighborhood parks are important venues to support moderate-to-vigorous (MVPA) activity. There has been a noticeable increase promoting physical activity among youth in neighborhood parks. This paper aims to a...
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An Affordable and Sustainable Thrifty-Like Meal Plan, FoodRx, That Meets the Recommended Dietary Allowances
There is considerable controversy as to whether a healthy diet is affordable given recent inflation. In order to determine whether a healthy, climate-friendly sustainable diet can be obtained within the allotm...
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Open AccessExpanding Early Psychosis Care across a Large and Diverse State: Implementation Lessons Learned from Administrative Data and Clinical Team Leads in Texas
The U.S. is facing an unprecedented youth mental health crisis. Translating the findings from mental health intervention trials into large scale, accessible community-based services poses substantial challenge...
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Mental Health Service Experiences Among Transition-Age Youth: Interpersonal Continuums that Influence Engagement in Care
Purpose. Transition-age youth (TAY) who have experienced or are experiencing complex trauma, system involvement and homelessness are at increased risk for serious mental health needs and related challenges. Howev...
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Playground Location and Patterns of Use
Playgrounds have features that benefit visitors, including opportunities to engage in outdoor physical activity. We surveyed 1350 adults visiting 60 playgrounds across the USA in Summer 2021 to determine if di...
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Creative Technology-Based Strategies for Engaging Young People with Serious Mental Health Conditions in Longitudinal Mental Health Services Research
A better understanding of the transition from child to adult community mental health services is important given the high rates of service drop-out. Conducting longitudinal research is challenging during a maj...
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Neighborhood Environments, SNAP-Ed Eligibility, and Health Behaviors: An Analysis of the California Health Interview Survey (CHIS)
Neighborhood conditions are associated with health outcomes, but whether individual health behaviors are independent of or associated with the settings are not clear. We analyzed the California Health Intervie...
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Open AccessThe effects of park-based interventions on health: a systematic review protocol
Public parks serve as spaces within neighborhoods for encouraging a variety of physical and mental health-related behaviors. Over the past decade, there have been a number of interventions conducted in public ...
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Improved Street Walkability, Incivilities, and Esthetics Are Associated with Greater Park Use in Two Low-Income Neighborhoods
Parks may provide opportunities for people to increase their physical activity and improve health. Yet, parks are generally less plentiful and underutilized in low-income urban neighborhoods compared with more...
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Contributions of Neighborhood Parks to Physical Activity in High-Poverty Urban Neighborhoods
Neighborhood parks are important venues for the urban population to do moderate-to-vigorous physical activity in leisure time. Parks can be particularly important for low-income neighborhoods, whose residents ...
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How Do Racial/Ethnic Groups Differ in Their Use of Neighborhood Parks? Findings from the National Study of Neighborhood Parks
The current study examined racial/ethnic differences in use of parks and park facilities and features and self-reported park use and perceptions. We conducted observations in a nationally representative sample...
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Are Food Deserts Also Play Deserts?
Although food deserts are areas that lack easy access to food outlets and considered a barrier to a healthy diet and a healthy weight among residents, food deserts typically comprise older urban areas which ma...
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Racial-Ethnic Variation in Park Use and Physical Activity in the City of Los Angeles
Racial-ethnic disparities in physical activity present important challenges to population health. Public parks provide access to free or low-cost physical activity opportunities, but it is unclear to what exte...
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Open AccessOutdoor advertising, obesity, and soda consumption: a cross-sectional study
Recent research has shown that neighborhood characteristics are associated with obesity prevalence. While food advertising in periodicals and television has been linked to overweight and obesity, it is unknown...
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Measuring the Food Environment: Shelf Space of Fruits, Vegetables, and Snack Foods in Stores
Dietary patterns may be influenced by the availability and accessibility within stores of different types of foods. However, little is known about the amount of shelf space used for healthy and unhealthy foods...
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Open AccessBody Mass Index, Neighborhood Fast Food and Restaurant Concentration, and Car Ownership
Eating away from home and particularly fast food consumption have been shown to contribute to weight gain. Increased geographic access to fast food outlets and other restaurants may contribute to higher levels...
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New Recreational Facilities for the Young and the Old in Los Angeles: Policy and Programming Implications
It is assumed that higher quality recreation facilities promote physical activity and serve communities better. We tested this assumption by comparing changes in the use of an expanded and renovated skate park...
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Alcohol Availability and Neighborhood Characteristics in Los Angeles, California and Southern Louisiana
The objective of this study was to examine the associations between alcohol availability types and community characteristics in randomly selected census tracts in Southern California and Southeastern Louisiana...
