New Jersey residents need research based information in several areas related to healthy lifestyle including: nutrition, health literacy, health finance, physical activity, food safety, food allergies and environmental health, mainly reducing asthma triggers.
Assumptions
When individuals adopt behaviors that promote health, such as incorporating proper nutrition, physical activity, food safety practice, food allergy awareness, health literacy and environmental health behaviors, their quality of life can be improved. The risk of disease or death can be decreased.
Expected Outcomes
Short Term
Individuals will gain awareness, knowledge, skills related to:
Improved attitudes about healthy eating for adults
Increased knowledge/skills of healthy food choices for adults
Increased knowledge of benefits of physical activity (reduced overweight and obesity, reduced risk of diabetes, heart disease and cancer)
Increased knowledge related to food safety practices
Increased knowledge about food allergies
Increased knowledge related to asthma
Increased knowledge related to health literacy/health finance
Medium Term
Individuals will incorporate skills/change behaviors related to:
Increased adoption of healthy food practices
Increased consumption of fruits, vegetables, whole grains and low-fat dairy
Increased participation in physical activity
Increased food safety practices
Increased adoption of behaviors to reduce food allergy incidence
Increased behaviors to reduce asthma triggers
Increased positive behaviors related to health literacy/finance
Long Term
Individuals will experience:
Decreased overweight and obesity
Decreased risk factors for nutrition-related health problems and chronic diseases that are affected by diet and physical activity
Decreased incidence of foodborne illness
Decreased incidence of food allergy reactions
Decreased exposure to asthma triggers
Decreased health communication errors related to literacy