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| The Living Healthy Collaborative |
 Since 2001, a group of people representing a variety of local
organizations, have been working on the local issue of cardiovascular
health...
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| Childhood Obesity |
Did you know....more male students are overweight than female students, more black students are overweight than white students, and the prevalence of obesity has quadrupled over the last 25 years among children?
Today's youth are considered the most inactive generation in history (American Academy of Family Physicians, AAFP).
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| Park in the Back 40 |
Through a partnership with several stores and businesses, Living
Healthy has erected permanent signs at the far end of the parking lot
to show shoppers or those who frequent the business how many steps it
is to the main door...
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| Living Healthy Projects |
The
first Living Healthy projects included a year-long pilot project
focused on helping low-income families improve their cardiovascular
health...
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| X-Marks the Spot Campaign |
In January of 2004, Living Healthy kicked off their X Marks the Spot Campaign...
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| Lead Awareness Coalition |
After seeing a Ball State geography professor's mapping of homes in
Muncie where children lived who had tested with high levels of lead in
their blood...
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| Health Risk Behavior Survey |
The first major study, completed by TEAMwork in 1998 and funded by a
joint-venture between TEAMwork and Ball Memorial Hospital, was the
Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance Survey (BRFSS), a Centers for
Disease Control study measuring the health risk behaviors of adults. A
total of 1,402 completed...
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| Comprehensive Recreation Assessment |
TEAMwork's early planning in 1996 identified a need to focus on
family development and the pursuit of recreation and leisure. TQL
discovered that no inventory of recreational and leisure facilities and
programs had ever been done, nor had...
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