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In Texas, Everything is Bigger: In the context of data collection—is bigger better?
The traditional researcher concept that big data equates statistical significance could always eclipse the importance of understanding the interrelationship between the effect size, power, and sample size that could translate to both practical and statistical significance. In Texas, everything is bigger, everything a Texan do is bigger, but in the context of data collection—is bigger… →
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Dallas’ Renaissance Plan: A Response to the Second Wave of Environmental Justice
Dallas is the seventh largest city in the United States with a population exceeding 1.1 million citizens in the year 2000. Dallas is the fourth largest park system in the United States. The second wave of the environmental justice movement is a concept concerned with urban design, public health, and availability of outdoor physical activities.… →
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Seven Hours to Go
February 7, 2014—all day! Tweet the fight on childhood obesity in 140 characters using the hashtag #onechobesity. →
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Preventive and Curative Health Care Services: Integrating Cultural Health Capital
Critical to improving the health of the US population is expanding the role of primary care in the prevention and treatment of childhood obesity. Providers can improve prevention and treatment through efforts in clinical and community setting, healthy lifestyle promotion, community health education, policy advocacy, weight status assessment and monitoring, clinic infrastructure development, and multi… →
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Canadian Strategies to Help Reverse U.S. obesity Epidemic
Health within the looking glass of a population health perspective is defined in broad terms which address questions such as what are the most important factors affecting the target population’s health; why some people are sicker than others; and what initiatives can be implemented to improve the health of all people and communities. The less… →
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O.N.E.—One Nation’s Echo 