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Mexico – Mexico City
   
 

Community action to prevent chronic disease.


Principal investigator

Dr Javier Saimovici

Dr Jorge A. Ramirez-Hernandez

Dr Bartolome Finizola

Intervention type

Community intervention

Targeted population

Community

Target factors

Risk factors    Diseases 
  • Tobacco use
  • Diet/Nutrition
  • Physical inactivity
 
  • Cardiovascular disease
  • Cancer
  • Diabetes

Purpose/Goals

To implement community-wide interventions to reduce smoking, exposure to smoking, and smoking uptake, increase physical activity, increase knowledge of a healthy diet and weight, and increase consumption of healthy foods while decreasing consumption of unhealthy foods.