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Zierold, Kristina M.; Sears, Clara G.; Brock, Guy N. – Health Education & Behavior, 2016
Coal ash, a waste product generated from burning coal for energy, is composed of highly respirable particles containing heavy metals, radioactive elements, and polycylic aromatic hydrocarbons. Coal ash is stored in landfills and surface impoundments frequently located near neighborhoods. Fugitive dust from the storage sites exposes neighborhoods,…
Descriptors: Natural Resources, Environmental Influences, Public Health, Public Opinion
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Zimmerman, Rick S.; Palmgreen, Philip M.; Noar, Seth M.; Lustria, Mia Liza A.; Lu, Hung-Yi; Horosewski, Mary Lee – Health Education & Behavior, 2007
This study evaluates the ability of a safer sex televised public service announcement (PSA) campaign to increase safer sexual behavior among at-risk young adults. Independent, monthly random samples of 100 individuals were surveyed in each city for 21 months as part of an interrupted-time-series design with a control community. The 3-month…
Descriptors: Self Efficacy, Sexually Transmitted Diseases, Audiences, Young Adults
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McNeal, Ralph B, Jr.; Hansen, William B.; Harrington, Nancy Grant; Giles, Steven M. – Health Education & Behavior, 2004
Prevention research continues to focus on school-based substance use programs aimed at adolescents. These programs are designed to reduce substance use and risk behavior by targeting key mediators, such as normative beliefs, which in turn reduce substance use. All Stars is a newly developed program that was recently evaluated in a randomized field…
Descriptors: Middle Schools, Substance Abuse, Program Effectiveness, Sexuality