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PubMed2004

Improvements in heart health behaviors and reduction in coronary artery disease risk factors in urban teenaged girls through a school-based intervention: the PATH program.

OBJECTIVES: We sought to assess the effects of a school-based intervention program on cardiovascular disease risk factors in urban girls. METHODS: We compared heart health knowledge, health behaviors, cardiovascular risk factors, and physical fitness among a group of 442 multiethnic teenaged girls (310 experimental participants vs 132 control participants). Testing was conducted before and after a 12-week program of vigorous exercises integrated with lectures and discussions on diet, exercise, stress, and smoking. RESULTS: Significant differences in body fat, systolic and diastolic blood pressure, heart health knowledge, and whether breakfast was eaten were observed between experimental participants and control participants. CONCLUSIONS: An integrated program of exercise and heart health-related lectures and discussions had a beneficial effect on health knowledge, health behaviors, and onset of risk factors for coronary artery disease among urban girls.

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PubMed1993

Community Health and Medical Practitioners Scheme: providers evaluate a pilot program of integration of services.

OBJECTIVE: To set up and evaluate a pilot scheme integrating salaried community health centre staff and fee-for-service medical practitioner services (CHAMPS). DESIGN: Preliminary interviews with both groups established the aims, logistics and financial arrangements of the project. The community health centre provided staff and the general practitioners provided premises and administrative services. Follow-up interviews evaluated the scheme and made recommendations. SETTING: A New South Wales country town, population 24,000, with 25 general practitioners and 23 community health centre professionals. RESULTS: Six general practitioners and 23 community health professionals determined the aims to be: improved access for patients to community health services; improved liaison between the two groups of providers; and a broadening of services offered at general practice locations. Two dietitians and three mental health workers were rostered for half a day per week in four general practices for six months. The dietitians continued after the project finished, but the mental health workers did not. The five community health staff, five of the general practitioners originally interviewed and six other general practitioner participants cited the major benefits as increased communication between providers and improved access for patients, and the major difficulties as lack of appropriate equipment and organisational logistics. CONCLUSIONS: The providers believe that the project succeeded in improving access to community health services and liaison between professionals. For future projects they recommended better communication, firmer role delineation and better planning for space and equipment.

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