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United States – Dallas, TX
   
 

South Dallas on the Move.

Principal investigator

Claire C. Avant, MPH

Intervention type

Community intervention

Targeted population

School-aged children, adolescent and adults, through schools, community centres and workplaces

Target factors

Risk factors     Diseases 
  • Tobacco use
  • Nutrition
  • Physical activity
 
  • Cardiovascular disease
  • Cancer

Purpose/Goals

Designing a programme for the underserved population of south Dallas by adapting and integrating several programmes currently operating in Texas. The programme will focus on primary and secondary prevention programmes in community centres, workplaces and schools to improve the short- and long-term health risk-factor status of adults and children.