Recently added articles from American Journal of Health Behavior:
Alcohol use, eating patterns, and weight behaviors in a university population.(Report)
May 01, 2009; ... Adverse weight-related behaviors (eg, poor dietary intake, physical inactivity) are highly prevalent on university campuses. (1-7) Additionally, college enrollment has been documented as a time for rapid weight gain. (5,6,8-12) Although universities thus represent important settings for ...
The influence of appearance, health, and future orientations on tanning behavior.(Clinical report)
May 01, 2009; ... Like other health-risk behaviors, studies demonstrate that Americans, particularly young people, continue to expose themselves to large amounts of ultraviolet (UV) radiation yet protect themselves minimally despite widespread awareness of the harmful effects of UV radiation in terms of ...
Quantifying risk: verbal probability expressions in Spanish and English.(Report)
May 01, 2009; ... Advances in risk communication have attracted increasing attention among investigators in public health, environmental safety, and the behavioral sciences. (1-7) Little is known, however, about the practical aspects of communicating health risks across cultural and language borders, a gap ...
College students' motivation to achieve and maintain a healthy weight.(Survey)
May 01, 2009; ... Obesity increases the risk of numerous health-compromising conditions. (1,2) Over 2 thirds of US adults are now overweight or obese, (3) and the proportion of overweight US children and adolescents has increased by 3-fold in the last 30 years. (4) Young adults aged 18 to 29 years with some ...
Prenatal care initiation in low-income Hispanic women: risk and protective factors.(Report)
May 01, 2009; ... Despite strides in expansion of federal health care coverage to low-income families, considerable disparities in pregnancy and birth outcomes among low-income and ethnic minority groups continue to exist in the United States. In the predominantly Mexican American communities of Maryvale ...