Journal Article

5 a day for better health: nine community research projects to increase fruit and vegetable consumption

Damron, D, Baranowski, T, Beresford, S.A.A, Bishop, D, Cowan, A, Havas, S. (University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD.), Heimendinger, J, Nicklas, T.A, Sorensen, G, Buller, D

1995

Overview

One of the national objectives in \"Healthy People 2000\" is for members of the public to increase their consumption of fruits and vegetables to five or more servings daily. The National Cancer Institute (NCI) began a nationwide campaign to achieve this objective in 1991. As part of this campaign, the NCI funded nine research studies in 1993. These projects are implementing and evaluating community-based programs designed to increase fruit and vegetable consumption among different segments of the population in Alabama, Arizona, Georgia, Louisiana, Maryland, Massachusetts, Minnesota, North Carolina, and Washington. The settings for these projects include the Special Supplement Food Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC Programs), churches, worksites, and schools. The projects are led by multidisciplinary teams and entail extensive collaboration among academic, governmental, private sector, and voluntary agencies within each State. The projects represent a model public health paradigm for conducting this type of research

• Publisher: Office of the Assistant Secretary for Health,Association of Schools of Public Health,SAGE PUBLICATIONS, INC
• Subject: ADMINISTRACION / ADMINISTRATION / Alabama / ALABAMA (EU) / ALABAMA (EUA) / ARIZONA / Biological and medical sciences / Cancer / CAPACIDAD MENTAL / CAPACITE MENTALE / carcinoma / CARCINOMAS / CARCINOME / CAROLINA DEL NORTE / CAROLINE DU NORD / Churches / community programs / Community research / CONSOMMATION ALIMENTAIRE / consumer education / CONSUMO DE ALIMENTOS / Consumption / CONTROL DE ENFERMEDADES / CONTROLE DE MALADIES / Diet / disease prevention / EDUCACION / EDUCACION DEL CONSUMIDOR / EDUCATION / EDUCATION DU CONSOMMATEUR / Elementary school curricula / Environmental education / ETABLISSEMENT D'ENSEIGNEMENT / food and nutrition programs / Food consumption / Food Services / Fruit / FRUITS / FRUTAS / General populations / Georgia / GEORGIA (EUA) / GEORGIE (EU) / government agencies / Guidelines as Topic / Health Education / Health Education - methods / Health promotion / Health Promotion - methods / Healthy food / HORTALIZAS / Humans / INSTITUCIONES DE EDUCACION / Interdisciplinary aspects / INVESTIGACION / learning / LEGUME / Louisiana / LOUISIANE / LUISIANA / marketing / MARYLAND / MASSACHUSETTS / Medical research / Medical sciences / methods / MINNESOTA / Multidisciplinary teams / North Carolina / NUTRICION HUMANA / Nutrition / nutrition education / NUTRITION HUMAINE / nutrition research / nutritional intervention / Nutritional Requirements / Occupational Health Services / POLITICA NUTRICIONAL / POLITIQUE NUTRITIONNELLE / Prevention and actions / PROJET DE RECHERCHE / PROMOCION DE VENTAS / PROMOTION DES VENTES / PROYECTOS DE INVESTIGACION / Psychoeducational intervention / Public health / Public health. Hygiene / Public health. Hygiene-occupational medicine / RECHERCHE / Research projects / SALUD / SANTE / schools / SERVICE DE SANTE PUBLIQUE / SERVICIOS DE SALUD / TRABAJO / TRAVAIL / United States / Urban schools / Vegetables / WASHINGTON / working conditions