Publications by authors named "Alyssa Maccarone"

Background: The Playworks program places coaches in low-income urban schools to engage students in physical activity during recess. The purpose of this study was to estimate the impact of Playworks on students' physical activity separately for Hispanic, non-Hispanic black, and non-Hispanic white students.

Methods: Twenty-seven schools from 6 cities were randomly assigned to treatment and control groups.

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Primary care plays a central role in the provision of health care, and is an organizing feature for health care delivery systems in most Western industrialized democracies. For a variety of reasons, however, the practice of primary care has been in decline in the U.S.

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