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Publikováno v:
Florida Public Health Review, Vol 1, Pp 36-41 (2004)
The Safe and Drug-Free Schools (SDFS) Program is the Florida Department of Education’s (FDOE) primary funding vehicle for the reduction of violence, and tobacco, alcohol, and other drug use through education and prevention activities in schools. Ea
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https://doaj.org/article/b42aba650fea43108a9682ba84d97936
Autor:
Wayne W. Westhoff, Cynthia F. Cohen, Elizabeth Elliott Cooper, Jaime Corvin, Robert J. McDermott
Publikováno v:
American Journal of Health Education. 43:175-183
In this paper, we use game theory to understand decisions to cooperate or to compete in the delivery of public health services. Health care is a quasi-public good that is often associated with altruistic behavior, yet it operates in an increasingly c
Publikováno v:
Journal of Drug Issues. 38:149-170
The prevalence of substance use behaviors during adolescence is an important concern in the United States and internationally. Of particular importance to the U.S. is our ability to compare prevalence estimates and trends with those of neighboring co
Autor:
Tsungai Mushore, Peter Chauke, Wayne W. Westhoff, Robert J. McDermott, Charles S. Majange, Elijah Chitsika, Moses Mushore, Clement K. Gwede
Publikováno v:
Health Education & Behavior. 28:608-623
A socioculturally appropriate health risk behavior instrument, modeled after the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Youth Risk Behavior Survey (YRBS), was administered to 717 secondary school students in a rural area of Zimbabwe. Com
Publikováno v:
American Journal of Health Education. 40:317-319
Modeled upon the ecclesiastic community group concept of Latin America to unite and strengthen the bond between the Church and neighborhoods, a community-based organization created Vecinos Unidos por la Salud (Neighbors United for Health) to bring he
Publikováno v:
Psychological Reports. 82:215-220
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) administered its 75-item 1991 Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance survey to a nationwide random sample of 12, 248 high school students. In a secondary analysis of their data, one item on students' per
Publikováno v:
Psychological Reports. 79:787-795
The purpose of this study was to measure the stages of acquisition of selected high-risk health behaviors in 768 randomly selected 7th- and 8th-graders in a Florida school district. Specific high-risk health behaviors included use of alcohol, tobacco
Publikováno v:
International Quarterly of Community Health Education. 15:137-144
Children throughout the world work on street corners selling newspapers, washing car windows, shining shoes, or hustling anything that will earn cash for the day. Many of them start early in the morning, work all day without attending school, and the
Autor:
Wayne W. Westhoff
Publikováno v:
Psychological Reports. 73:1007-1010
Psychosocial data collected from 12 albinos in rural and isolated parts of the Dominican Republic suggest a stigma is associated with the absence of skin color. The general population living in the area has a skin pigmentation of dark brown. The purp
Publikováno v:
International quarterly of community health education. 16(1)
The purpose of this survey was to determine the health-risk behaviors among high school students in the Dominican Republic. Samples were taken from communities with an industrial base and an increasing population (n = 1175). The communities under stu