A Participatory, State-Community-Academic Model to Improve Pregnancy Outcomes in Texas: The Healthy Families Initiative.

Background: While the Texas infant mortality rate (IMR) is below the Healthy People 2020 objective (5.7 per 1,000 live births), stark differences in IMR are seen across Texas communities. Health indicators for the state suggest important missed opportunities for improving maternal and infant outcomes.

Make Your Move Experience: A Worksite Wellness Pilot in South Texas.

Purpose: To describe the implementation of Make Your Move Experience (MYME) between 2015 and 2017.

Design: Cross-sectional.

Setting: Make Your Move Experience is a culturally sensitive worksite wellness program in South Texas designed to encourage sedentary workers to engage in physical activity.

Coaction Between Physical Activity and Fruit and Vegetable Intake in Racially Diverse, Obese Adults.

Purpose: There is minimal understanding of the potential for coaction, defined as action on one behavior increasing the likelihood of taking action on another behavior, between physical activity (PA) and fruit and vegetable (FV) intake. The purpose of this study was to assess the bidirectional coaction between FV intake and PA, as well as self-efficacy for these behaviors, in a racially diverse sample of obese adults.

Design: This is a secondary analysis using data collected from the Path to Health study, a randomized controlled trial.

Perspectives on cervical cancer screening and prevention: challenges faced by providers and patients along the Texas-Mexico border.

Background: The Rio Grande Valley (RGV) and Laredo regions located along the Texas-Mexico border consist of seven counties with a population of approximately 1.5 million people and a high uninsured rate (33.5%).

Exposure to e-cigarette marketing and product use among Mexican American young adults on the US-Mexico border: A pilot study.

Historically, the tobacco industry has marketed directly to minority groups, which is associated with increased product use; the advent of e-cigarettes poses a new risk. The purpose of this study is to examine associations between exposure to tobacco marketing via traditional and digital marketing channels and ever use of e-cigarettes among Mexican-American young adults. Ninety-two Mexican-American young adults between 18 and 29 years of age (61% female) were recruited from the Cameron County Hispanic Cohort, a well-characterized population-based cohort on the U.