Healthy Community Design, Anti-displacement, and Equity Strategies in the USA: A Scoping Review.

Recent investments in built environment infrastructure to create healthy communities have highlighted the need for equity and environmental justice. Although the benefits of healthy community design (e.g.

Monitoring State-Level Changes in Walking, Biking, and Taking Public Transit to Work - American Community Survey, 2006 and 2017.

Introduction: Active commuting to work is one way people can be physically active and can be influenced by state-level initiatives. The American Community Survey (ACS) is a potential data source to evaluate changes in active commuting at the state level, but state-level changes have not been well documented. We examined state-level changes in estimates of walking, biking, and taking transit to work (combined and separately) among employed persons between 2006 and 2017.

Self-affirmation increases defensiveness toward health risk information among those experiencing negative emotions: Results from two national samples.

Objective: Self-affirmation can promote health behavior change and yield long-term improvements in health via its effect on receptiveness to risk information in behavior change interventions. Across 2 studies, we examined whether the emotional state of the person presented with health risk information moderates self-affirmation effectiveness.

Method: Data were collected from 2 U.

Evaluating diabetes mobile applications for health literate designs and functionality, 2014.

Introduction: The expansion of mobile health technologies, particularly for diabetes-related applications (apps), grew exponentially in the past decade. This study sought to examine the extent to which current mobile apps for diabetes have health literate features recommended by participants in an Institute of Medicine Roundtable and compare the health literate features by app cost (free or not).

Methods: We used diabetes-related keywords to identify diabetes-related apps for iOS devices.

"Obesity is the New Major Cause of Cancer": Connections Between Obesity and Cancer on Facebook and Twitter.

Social media interactions can inform public health risk perceptions. While research has examined the risk relationships between obesity and cancer, public attitudes about their associations remain largely unknown. We explored how these constructs were discussed together on two social media platforms.

Seeking Information on Behalf of Others: An Analysis of Calls to a Spanish-Language Radio Health Program.

Objective: Spanish-monolingual Latinos account for 13% of U.S. residents and experience multiple barriers to effective health communication.

Who Seeks Cita Con El Doctor? Twelve Years of Spanish-Language Radio Program Targeting U.S. Latinos.

Purpose: Spanish-dominant Latinos make up 13% of the U.S. population, and this group is poorer and faces multiple threats to health compared with the general population.