Youth empowerment implementation project evaluation results: A program designed to improve the health and well-being of low-income African-American adolescents.

Adolescent obesity is a major health issue facing today's youth. This may be the first generation to have a lower life expectancy than their parents. The Youth Empowerment Implementation Project's (YEIP) goal was to increase fruit and vegetable intake, lower junk food consumption, and increase physical activity among low-income African-American youth living in the Midwest. Thirty middle school aged youth participated in an evidenced-based program (i.e., Botvin's Life Skills Training) and were engaged in health education and physical activities. The results from baseline to follow-up demonstrated a reduction in junk food intake for participants and an increase in fruit and vegetable intake but not for physical activity. The health behaviors of participants improved for three out of four indicators following the intervention. Limitations, future research, and implications for future programs are also discussed.

OMS: Los anos de las campanas en masa / WHO: The days of the mass campaigns

The World Health Organization was created and shaped by thousands of men and women of all nationalities. To mark its fortieth anniversary year, World Health Forum asked Glen Williams to give us his impressions of some of the main events. In passing, he mentions just a few names from among the many people who are part of the history of the Organization. The Forum presents, in two parts, snatches from WHO's life story, including episodes from its foundation in the aftermath of a world war, through the high hopes of the mass campaigns and the brilliant victory over smallpox, to the present great endeavour to achieve health for all

WHO : Reaching out to all

By the early 1970s a new idea was taking shape in WHO. Medical services were failing to reach vast numbers. Health would have to emerge from the people themselves. In the heat of discussion the new strategy was clarified and given a name- primary health care. And an ambitious target was set for it -no less than health for all by the year 2000

The days of the mass campaigns

The World Health Organization was created and shaped by thousands of men and women of all nationalities. To mark its fortieth anniversary year, World Health Forum asked Glen Williams to give us his impressions of some of the main events. In passing, he mentions just a few names from among the many people who are part of the history of the Organization. The Forum presents, in two parts, snatches from WHO's life story, including episodes from its foundation in the aftermath of a world war, through the high hopes of the mass campaigns and the brilliant victory over smallpox, to the present great endeavour to achieve health for all

Practising health for all

Over the past 30 years the international community has come to understand that hospitals, large and small, do not provide the sort of health care which most people need. As a result, governments and voluntary organizations have attempted to introduce new systems of 'primary care', emphasizing disease prevention rather than cure and community participation rather than over-dependence on medical personnel for health services..."Practising Health for All" presents a wide range of case studies depicting typical problems that arise in the implementation of primary health care - and how these can be overcome. We are not offering a 'ccok book' on how to run a primary health care programme. This would be an impossible task, given the widely varying situations of individual countries and regions throughout the world. But there are important lessons and principles to be drawn from the successful programmes analysed in this book, and perhaps even more important ones from the failures (ED).