| | From the Editor in Chief It Constitutes Itself: Health and Community Lynne S. Wilcox PMCID: PMC1636709 Editorial Looking Through a Glass, Darkly: Eliminating Health Disparities Leandris C Liburd, H. Wayne Giles, and George A. Mensah PMCID: PMC1636715 Essays Improving Health Through Health Marketing Jay M Bernhardt PMCID: PMC1636721 The Changing Shape of the Body Mass Index Distribution Curve in the Population: Implications for Public Health Policy to Reduce the Prevalence of Adult Obesity Alan D Penman and William D Johnson PMCID: PMC1636707 Review Peer Reviewed: A Review of Studies Examining Stated Preferences for Cancer Screening Kathryn A Phillips, Stephanie Van Bebber, Judith Walsh, Deborah Marshall, and Thabane Lehana PMCID: PMC1636712 Original Research Peer Reviewed: The Role of Race and Poverty in Access to Foods That Enable Individuals to Adhere to Dietary Guidelines Elizabeth A Baker, Mario Schootman, Ellen Barnidge, and Cheryl Kelly PMCID: PMC1636719 Peer Reviewed: Validation of a Food Frequency Questionnaire for Hispanics Gladys Block, Patricia Wakimoto, Christopher Jensen, Shelly Mandel, and Robin R Green PMCID: PMC1636705 Peer Reviewed: Correlates of Physical Activity for Adults With Disability Sarah E Boslaugh and Elena M Andresen PMCID: PMC1636710 Peer Reviewed: Assessing Overweight and Obesity Risk Among Korean Americans in California Using World Health Organization Body Mass Index Criteria for Asians Juhee Cho and Hee-Soon Juon PMCID: PMC1636717 Peer Reviewed: Ethnic Differences in the Use of Complementary and Alternative Therapies Among Adults With Osteoarthritis Carla J Herman, Jenny M Dente, Peg Allen, and William C Hunt PMCID: PMC1656861 Peer Reviewed: Factors That Influence Exercise Among Adults With Arthritis in Three Activity Levels Cheryl Der Ananian, Sara Wilcox, Ruth Saunders, Ken Watkins, and Alexandra Evans PMCID: PMC1636716 Peer Reviewed: Diabetes Risk and Obesity in Food-Insecure Households in Rural Appalachian Ohio David H Holben and Alfred M Pheley PMCID: PMC1636722 Peer Reviewed: Employer-Paid Nonmedical Costs for Patients With Diabetes and End-Stage Renal Disease Sachin J Kamal-Bahl, Susan Pantely, Bruce Pyenson, and Charles M Alexander PMCID: PMC1636708 Peer Reviewed: Prevalence of Overweight Among Elementary and Middle School Students in Mississippi Compared With Prevalence Data From the Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance System Elaine Fontenot Molaison, Jerome R Kolbo, Mary Kay Meyer, Nancy M Speed, Alan D Penman, and Lei Zhang PMCID: PMC1636714 Peer Reviewed: Racial and Ethnic Differences in Diabetes Care and Health Care Use and Costs Jung-Ah Lee, Chuan-Fen Liu, and Anne E Sales PMCID: PMC1636720 Peer Reviewed: Racial Disparities in Diabetes-related Preventive Care: Results From the Missouri Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System Joseph William LeMaster, Fungai Chanetsa, Julie M Kapp, and Brian M Waterman PMCID: PMC1636706 Peer Reviewed: Addressing Tobacco in Managed Care: Results of the 2003 Survey Carol McPhillips-Tangum, Bob Rehm, Rita Carreon, Caroline M Erceg, and Carmella Bocchino PMCID: PMC1636711 Peer Reviewed: Body Mass Index and Up-to-Date Colorectal Cancer Screening Among Marylanders Aged 50 Years and Older Eileen K Steinberger, Mikhail Menis, Bernard Kozlovsky, Pat Langenberg, Min Zhan, Ebenezer Israel, Annette Hopkins, Diane M Dwyer, and Carmela Groves PMCID: PMC1636718 Peer Reviewed: Cardiovascular Disease Mortality and Its Association With Socioeconomic Status: Findings From a Population-based Cohort Study in Rural Vietnam, 1999–2003 Hoang Van Minh, Dao Lan Huong, Stig Wall, Peter Byass, and Nguyen Thi Kim Chuc PMCID: PMC1637797 Peer Reviewed: BC Walks: Replication of a Communitywide Physical Activity Campaign. Bill Reger-Nash, Patricia Fell, Deborah Spicer, Brian D Fisher, Linda Cooper, Tien Chey, and Adrian Bauman PMCID: PMC1637798 Peer Reviewed: Progress in Pediatric Asthma Surveillance I: The Application of Health Care Use Data in Alameda County, California Paul B English, Eric M Roberts, Stephen K Van den Eeden, and G. Thomas Ray PMCID: PMC1637799 Peer Reviewed: Progress in Pediatric Asthma Surveillance II: Geospatial Patterns of Asthma in Alameda County, California Paul B English, Eric M Roberts, Michelle Wong, Craig Wolff, Samuel Valdez, Stephen K Van den Eeden, and G. Thomas Ray PMCID: PMC1637800 Peer Reviewed: A Church-based Diabetes Self-management Education Program for African Americans With Type 2 Diabetes Carmen D Samuel-Hodge, Thomas C Keyserling, Renaé France, Allyson F Ingram, Larry F Johnston, Lisa Pullen Davis, Gwen Davis, and Anne S Cole PMCID: PMC1637801 Peer Reviewed: Study Design and Participation Rates of the New York City Health and Nutrition Examination Survey, 2004 Lorna E Thorpe, R Charon Gwynn, Jenna Mandel-Ricci, Sarah Roberts, Thomas R Frieden, Benjamin Tsoi, Lew Berman, Kathryn Porter, Yechiam Ostchega, Lester R Curtain, Jill Montaquila, and Leyla Mohadjer PMCID: PMC1637802 Peer Reviewed: Development and Reliability of Brief Dietary Assessment Tools for Hispanics Patricia Wakimoto, Gladys Block, Shelly Mandel, and Norma Medina PMCID: PMC1637803 Special Topics Peer Reviewed: Tobacco Cessation Interventions in Dental Networks: A Practice-based Evaluation of the Impact of Education on Provider Knowledge, Referrals, and Pharmacotherapy Use Nicolaas P Pronk, Darla Havlicek, and Eric Stafne PMCID: PMC1637804 Peer Reviewed: A Marketing Perspective on Disseminating Evidence-based Approaches to Disease Prevention and Health Promotion Edward W Maibach, Mary Ann S. Van Duyn, and Bonny Bloodgood PMCID: PMC1637805 Community Case Studies Peer Reviewed: Healthy Weigh (El camino saludable) Phase 1: A Retrospective Critical Examination of Program Evaluation Pamela Jean Frable, Lyn Dart, and Patricia J Bradley PMCID: PMC1656862 Peer Reviewed: The `Ohana Day Project: A Community Approach to Increasing Cancer Screening Kapuaola Gellert, Kathryn L Braun, Robert Morris, and Valerie Starkey PMCID: PMC1637806 Peer Reviewed: Play Across Boston: A Community Initiative to Reduce Disparities in Access to After-School Physical Activity Programs for Inner-city Youths Cynthia Hannon, Angie Cradock, Steven L Gortmaker, Jean Wiecha, Alison El Ayadi, Linda Keefe, and Alfreda Harris PMCID: PMC1656860 Peer Reviewed: Move & Improve: A Worksite Wellness Program in Maine Michele Polacsek, Liam M O’Brien, Wendie Lagasse, and Nicole Hammar PMCID: PMC1637789 Peer Reviewed: The Evolution of Integrated Chronic Disease Prevention in Alberta, Canada Kim Raine, Sharlene Wolbeck Minke, Ernest Khalema, Cynthia Smith, and Ronald C Plotnikoff PMCID: PMC1637790 Community Voices Cherokee Choices: A Diabetes Prevention Program for American Indians Jeffrey J Bachar, Lisa J Lefler, Lori Reed, Tara McCoy, Robin Bailey, and Ronny Bell PMCID: PMC1637791 The African American Wellness Village in Portland, Ore Corliss McKeever, Nancy Koroloff, and Collaine Faddis PMCID: PMC1637792 Change for Life/Cambia tu vida: A Health Promotion Program Based on the Stages of Change Model for African Descendent and Latino Adults in New Hampshire Chris Smith and Andrew Ryan PMCID: PMC1637793
Healthy Navajo Women: Walk in Beauty
Ramah Band of Navajo Indians and the Albuquerque Area Indian Health Board PMCID: PMC1637794
Voices for Health Equality
Bronx Health REACH PMCID: PMC1637795
Wellness Within REACH
African American Health Coalition PMCID: PMC1637796 Letters to the Editor Peer Reviewed: Physical Activity and Incident Hypertension Among Blacks: No Relationship? Dustin T Duncan, Rakale Collins Quarells, Rebecca Din-Dzietham, Cassandra Arroyo, and Sharon K Davis PMCID: PMC1636713 Establishing Public Health Benchmarks for Physical Activity Programs Sarah Levin Martin and Tammy Vehige PMCID: PMC1636704 |
