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Making the Case for the Built Environment to Promote Wellness and Reduce Weight Gain
Learning Areas:
Administer health education strategies, interventions and programsAssessment of individual and community needs for health education
Chronic disease management and prevention
Environmental health sciences
Implementation of health education strategies, interventions and programs
Planning of health education strategies, interventions, and programs
Learning Objectives:
Demonstrate how the built environment promotes better health outcomes.
Evaluate the statistics on weight- gain, food deserts, and dearth of pedestrian infrastructure.
Demonstrate how community actions modify behavior and reduce weight- gain
Keyword(s): Built Environment, Minority Health
Qualified on the content I am responsible for because: I have more than 29 years of academic and professional experience in public health, environmental health, health education, and health promotion.
Any relevant financial relationships? No
I agree to comply with the American Public Health Association Conflict of Interest and Commercial Support Guidelines, and to disclose to the participants any off-label or experimental uses of a commercial product or service discussed in my presentation.