Journal of community health.
Publisher:
Human Sciences Press.. Amsterdam : Springer
Frequency: Bimonthly
Country: Netherlands
Language: English
Author(s):
Association of Teachers of Preventive Medicine.
Start Year:1975 -
ISSN:
0094-5145 (Print)
1573-3610 (Electronic)
0094-5145 (Linking)
1573-3610 (Electronic)
0094-5145 (Linking)
Impact Factor
5.9
2022
| NLM ID: | 7600747 |
| (DNLM): | J17440000(s) |
| (OCoLC): | 02244911 |
| LCCN: | 75649414 |
| Classification: | W1 JO593Q |
Nutrition assessment of horse-racing athletes. Athletes involved in horse racing face weight restrictions like wrestlers and dancers; however, the literature is sparse pertaining to nutritional habits of jockeys. The practice of "making weight" causes these athletes to engage in potentially unhealthy practices. A gap in nutritionally sound practices and methods used by jockeys was identified and a desire for nutrition education was expressed to Cooperative Extension of Delaware by representatives of the riders at Delaware Park Race Track. Nutrition assessment was done using the Nutrition Care Process. Twenty jockeys were interviewed using ...
Media attention and public perceptions of cancer and eastern equine encephalitis. Previous research has found that members of the public have a skewed sense of health risk. The purpose of this research was to investigate how mass media use influences perceptions of threat from cancer and eastern equine encephalitis (EEE). Investigators performed a media content analysis of 253 health-related articles from 11 Massachusetts newspapers, then used logistic regression to analyze responses to a health communication survey of 613 Massachusetts adults. A greater proportion of cancer articles compared to those about EEE mentioned progress in combating the disease (61.0% vs. 16.2%, P...