Active transportation to support diabetes prevention: Expanding school health promotion programming in an Indigenous community

Soultana Macridis, Enrique Garcia Bengoechea, Alex M. McComber, Judi Jacobs and Ann C. Macaulay

Evaluation and Program Planning, 2016, vol. 56, issue C, 99-108

Abstract: School-based physical activity (PA) interventions, including school active transportation (AT), provide opportunities to increase daily PA levels, improves fitness, and reduces risk of diseases, such as type 2 diabetes. Based on a community-identified need, the Kahnawake Schools Diabetes Prevention Project, within an Indigenous community, undertook school travel planning to contribute to PA programming for two elementary schools.

Keywords: Active transportation; School health promotion; Community-based participatory research; Partnership; Diabetes prevention (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016
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DOI: 10.1016/j.evalprogplan.2016.02.003

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