Social Epidemiology launches May 31, 2013. Understanding how forces of society—from family life to government policies to the global economy—impact health is the focus of one of the first massive online open courses (MOOC) offered by the University of Minnesota. Some 10,000 students are expected to sign on for Social Epidemiology, one of five free [...]
University of Minnesota School of Public Health researchers have found that young people who prefer organic, local, and sustainable foods are more likely to make healthier food choices. The researchers found the relation applies to young people broadly, regardless of socioeconomic or demographic status. The study is led by Jennifer E. Pelletier, M.P.H., who partnered [...]
Tobacco companies’ aggressive coupon marketing tactics may reduce the likelihood that current smokers will quit, according to new research published in Tobacco Control, an international peer-reviewed journal. This report is the first-of-its-kind to illustrate that cigarette coupons have a negative association on smoking cessation. “We know that raising the price of cigarettes encourages smokers to quit. [...]
The group of Minnesota college students, all pre-health majors, climbed out of the old yellow school bus. The temperature that January afternoon in Nicaragua registered 35 degrees Celcius (95 Fahrenheit), much warmer than back home. They paired off, linked up with their interpreters, and tromped in different directions down the dirt roads of the village [...]
MPH graduate Lizz Hutchinson is turning her talents to empowering women In her work for CARE, a leading humanitarian organization fighting global poverty, Lizz Hutchinson travels to more countries in a year than most of us do in a lifetime—Bangladesh, Ghana, India, Malawi, Mali, and Tanzania. In previous assignments, she’s been to Kenya, Mozambique, and [...]
As emphasis on muscularity has increased in recent decades, researchers at the University of Minnesota School of Public Health have found muscle-enhancing behaviors are now common for both boys and girls, and rates are higher than reported previously. In particular, they found adolescents in high school, teens of Asian background, students in overweight/obese BMI categories, [...]
Researchers at the University of Minnesota School of Public Health are retiring the Man-to-Man Sexual Health Seminars, an in-person sexual health education and support program that ran for nearly 20 years. Retiring the program will allow for more online HIV prevention interventions. The former program, led by principal investigator B.R. Simon Rosser, Ph.D., professor and [...]
A new analysis of government health data predicts that in Minnesota, the current 26 percent obesity rate could more than double by 2030, reaching 55 percent. The analysis, released this week by Trust for America’s Health and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, projected the obesity rates for all 50 states by 2030. Simone French, Ph.D., [...]
Schools across the country are swapping out soda for sports drinks in vending machines, thinking they’re making a more nutritional choice for students. But most sports drinks sold in the United States contain higher amounts of sugar than other beverages, adding calories to diets and contributing to the national obesity epidemic. In addition, research shows many [...]
A University of Minnesota School of Public Health analysis has found that, overall, the frequency of family meals has remained fairly constant over the past 10 years. Yet research has also found families from lower socioeconomic backgrounds are spending less time at the table as a family. According to researchers, the shift is problematic, given [...]
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