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Pediatric Obesity: Promoting nutrition and Physical Fitness in a Rural Elementary School |
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Project aimed at educating 5th graders at Red Jacket Elementary School in Ontario County, NY about proper nutrition and exercise. At the time Ontario County was considered a medically underserved area by the U.S. Department of Health. |
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Yoga |
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Longitudinal project aimed at incorporating Yoga at halfway houses and shelters, as well as attempts to bring it to general populations in low SES areas. |
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Sojourner House Healthy Lifestyles Class |
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Health Education For Homeless Women |
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Childhood Obesity Education for AA Youth At a Local Health Fair |
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Health Lift Initiative |
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Project combating Osteoporosis in women through the organization of weight training sessions and increased education about the disease. A post-project survey was conducted to determine the project’s success. |
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Sports Nutrition Assessment and Information for High School Athletes |
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Intervention on the Varsity Boy’s Soccer Team at Spencerport High School to first determine their eating habits and then provide them with pertinent nutritional information regarding their food choices before, during, and after competition. |
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MyPyramid: Nutrition Workshop for Kids |
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A nutritional workshop for children grades 4-6 in the Saturday School Program, students with special educational needs and lower socioeconomic status. |
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Healthy Habits in School Aged Children |
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Students set up teaching sessions with 10 7th grade classes at Wilson Foundation Junior High School. Information included dental hygiene, nutrition and a healthy diet, and the importance of exercise and staying active. |
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A Way to Promote Physical Activity in General Practice |
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Construction of a website to promote physical activity and teach persons how to train for a 5K walk/run. Project includes actual gathering of data to develop the website, actual website construction, and distribution of the website address and a brochure to physicians to give to their patients. |
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Protecting Our Varsity Athletes |
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Improving Urban Adolescent Health Behaviors Through Sports Physicals, Behavior Screening, and Counseling |
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This project was a continuation of an ongoing volunteer offering of the University of Rochester, targeting students within the Rochester City School District. The intervention includes providing free physicals to high school teens for eligibility in extra curricula activities. |
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Saturday School; Health Literacy and Health Modules |
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The goals of this project were to improve the ability for the students to become health literate through development of basic reading, writing, and math skills, and to address common health-related issues facing the students through health modules. |
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Promoting Exercise in Type I and Type II Diabetics an Educational Workshop |
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An educational workshop focusing on exercise as a means to prevent and manage diabetes was held for patients at the Anthony L. Jordan Health Center. |
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Promoting Healthy Eating Habits among Type I and Type II Diabetics: An Educational Workshop |
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A nutrition workshop was organized and conducted for patients of the Anthony L. Jordan Health Center as part of a monthly Diabetes Education Group meeting. |
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Skiing and Helmet Use: An Intervention |
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The population targeted in this study are skiers at a small community non-profit ski area in Vermont. The study design included researching the data available on helmet use, surveys to gather data, and to implement an intervention involving an informational poster and pamphlet to address the issue. |
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Goal 5K: Evaluation and Sustainability |
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The project involves increasing publicity for and ensuring the sustainability of a website that helps individuals increase their level of activity by encouraging them to work toward the goal of completing a 5K run/walk. |
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Raising Awareness of Eating Disorders Among Female Athletes and their Coaches |
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A presentation was developed, with an informational folder, awareness poster and video, to help coaches with spreading awareness and preventing eating disorders. One presentation was given to 17 coaches, one trainer and an Athletic Director. |
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Improving Adolescent Health through Involvement with the Boy Scouts of America |
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This longitudinal CHIC project targets Boy Scouts aging 11 to 17 years old in the Brighton, New York area, and is designed to educate and implement healthy behavior. |
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Pediatric Obesity: Promoting Healthy Hearts to Children and Families in Rochester City Elementary Schools |
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Project based on a need in the inner city community was for instruction and teaching of the parents and families of children at risk of obesity. The aims is to reach out to the children and families to encourage them to make healthy nutrition choices when cooking meals and buying snacks as well as promote active lifestyles for the whole family |
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Pediatric Obesity Promoting Healthy Hearts to Children and Families Rochester City Elementary Schools |
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A Healthy Heart Booth was created for the open houses at five Rochester City elementary schools. The open houses allowed the medical students to reach both elementary school children and their parents. |
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Lifestyles Improvement For Everyone (L.I.F.E) |
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The purpose behind creating this program was to address both of the goals of Healthy People 2010, focusing primarily on but not limited to battling overweight and obesity with improvements in nutrition and physical activity. |
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Hoops for Health |
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The Hoops for Health after school program was created to target those children at greatest risk. With the help of coordinators at Quad A, a partnership was created with students at the University of Rochester School of Medicine and School 34 staff, ultimately leading to the development of the Hoops for Health program in 2003. |
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Food, Fitness & Fun |
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The aim of this project is to educate children in fourth-sixth grade about diet and exercise and hopefully to have fun while battling pediatric obesity. With the help of a graphic designer in the community, computerized educational modules were created on pediatric obesity that can be implemented into any health class around the country, provided that there are computers available. |
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Improving Children's and Adolescents' Health Through Free Sports Physical Exams |
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Sustainable partnerships have developed over the years to help successfully perform free physical exams. While the project has received positive feedback, it is now important to evaluate if the program is indeed serving the intended target population. |
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