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PRESS RELEASES
Only 11% of local food pantry’s donations are considered healthy
- St. Louis, MO, November 19, 2007: Lower income families tend to have higher rates of obesity, diabetes, heart disease, cancer, and other health conditions related to poor nutrition. In addition, these families often have limited access to inexpensive, fresh, and nutritious foods. This can lead to the purchase and consumption of foods high in fat, sugar, and sodium. Food pantries are often an important source of food for lower income individuals. [ FIND OUT MORE ]
Fresh on the Market:
Transtria L.L.C., Public Health Research and Consulting Services
- Transtria L.L.C, a woman-owned enterprise, was created under the
leadership of Dr. Laura Brennan Ramirez
to sustain the quality services provided by partners and staff of Inneval, LLC
(recently dissolved through mutual consent of its founders). All of the full-
and part-time staff have accepted positions at Transtria L.L.C during the
transition, and as a result, the project teams and services have remained
intact. [ FIND OUT MORE ]
Intervention
MICA: An Evidence-Based Intervention Planning System for Missouri
- How can you improve the health of your community? The Missouri
Department of Health and Senior Services has contracted Transtria
L.L.C. to develop an interactive, evidence-based public health
intervention planning system named “Intervention MICA” (Missouri
Information for Community Action). This is the third in a
series of MICA systems (succeeding Assessment MICA and Priorities
MICA). Funding from the Missouri Foundation for Health will
support project development for three years, with a total
of eight intervention topics to be developed, such as diabetes,
physical activity, nutrition, asthma and tobacco. [ FIND
OUT MORE ]
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IN
THE NEWS
"Rating your location's walkability" New Urban News November, 2007. [ VIEW
ONLINE ]
"Food pantry offers healthy living for those on low income" South County Journal July 10, 2007. [ VIEW
ONLINE ]
"Walk With Metrolink " Webster-Kirkwood Times April.
2007. [ VIEW
ONLINE ] South County Times April.
2007. [ VIEW
ONLINE ]
"Move your feet, and get a free goodie bag" St. Louis Post-Dispatch April 2.
2007. [ VIEW
ONLINE ]
"'Selling' Exercise" Advance for Physical Therapists and PT Assistants Mar. 26,
2007. [ VIEW
ONLINE ]
"Health
Highlights: Nov. 5, 2006 - Factors for a 'Healthy Community'
Identified" Forbes Nov.
2006. [ VIEW
ONLINE ]
"Sidewalks,
parks seen as help in obesity fight" CNN.com Nov.
2006. [ VIEW
ONLINE ]
"Report
calls for 'activity-friendly' communities" REUTERS
Nov. 2006. [ VIEW
ONLINE ]
"EcoWellness:
Places that get us moving" United
Press International Oct. 2006. [ VIEW
ONLINE ]
"Missouri
Foundation for Health funds CMT's Ten Toe Express - Linking
your Feet with MetroLink" CMT-STL.org
Nov. 2006 [ VIEW
ONLINE ]
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PUBLICATIONS
Kelly,
C.,
Baker, E., Brownson, R. A
reliability analysis of social support and community assets
related to participation in physical activity (submitted).
Kelly,
C.
Schootman, M., Baker, E. Barnidge, Lemes, A. The
association of sidewalk walkability and physical disorder
with area-level race and poverty (under review).
Kelly,
C.
Baker, E., Brownson, R., Schootman, M. Translating
research into practice: Using concept mapping to determine
locally-relevant intervention strategies to increase physical
activity (under review).
Hoehner
CM, Ivey A, Brennan Ramirez
LK, Meriwether B, Brownson RC. (In press) Active
Neighborhood Checklist: A User-Friendly and Reliable Tool
for Assessing Activity-Friendliness, American
Journal of Health Promotion.
Brennan
Ramirez LK,
Hoehner CM, Brownson RC, Cook R, Orleans CT, Hollander M,
Barker DC, Bors P, Ewing R, Killingsworth R, Petersmarck K,
Schmid T, Wilkinson W. (In press) Indicators of Activity-Friendly
Communities: An Evidence-Based Consensus Process, American
Journal of Preventive Medicine.
Boehmer
TK, Hoehner CM, Deshpande AD, Brennan
Ramirez LK, Brownson RC. (In press)
Perceived and Observed Neighborhood Indicators of Obesity
among Urban Adults, Journal
of Epidemiology and Community Health.
Boehmer
TK, Hoehner CM, Wyrwich KW, Brennan
Ramirez LK, Brownson RC. (In press)
Correspondence between perceived and observed measures of
neighborhood environmental supports for physical activity,
Journal
of Physical Activity and Health.
Hoehner
C, Ivey A, Brennan
Ramirez LK, Meriwether B, Brownson
RC. (In press) How reliably do community members audit the
neighborhood environment for physical activity? Implications
for participatory research, J
Public Health Manag Pract.
Kelly,
C., Hoehner CM, Baker EA, Brennan
Ramirez LK, Brownson RC. Promoting
physical activity in communities: Approaches for successful
evaluation of programs and policies, Evaluation
and Program Planning. 2006, 29,280-292
Baker,
E., Kelly, C., Barnidge, E., Strayhorn, J.,
Schootman, M., Struthers, J., Griffith, D. The Garden
of Eden: Acknowledging the impact of race and class in our
efforts to decrease rates of obesity. American Journal
of Public Health, 2006, 96, 1170-1174.
Brennan
LK, Bender JM,
Barnidge EK, Baker EA, Land G. Evaluating an Evidence-Based
Physical Activity Intervention Website, Evaluation
and Program Planning,
2006, 29, 269-279.
Baker, E., Schootman, M., Barnidge, E. Kelly,
C. Access to foods that enable individuals to adhere
to dietary guidelines: the role of race and poverty. Preventing
Chronic Disease, 2006, 3(3), 1-11.
Brownson
RC, Hoehner CM, Brennan LK,
Cook RA, Elliott ME, McMullen KM. (2004). Reliability of two
instruments for auditing the environment for physical activity.
Journal of Physical Activity and Health, 1(3): 191-208.
Oswald,
D., Kelly, C., Clark, E. Friendship Maintenance:
An analysis of individual and dyad behaviours, Journal of
Social and Clinical Psychology, 2004, 23(3), 413-441.
Kelly,
C.,
Baker, E., Williams, D., Nanney, MS., Haire-Joshu, D,
Does organizational capacity have an impact on the delivery
and outcomes of health education programs? Journal
of Public Health Management and Practice, 2004,
10(2), 164-170.
Brennan
LK,
Baker EA, Haire-Joshu D., Brownson RC. (2003). Linking perceptions
of the community to behavior: Are protective social factors
associated with physical activity? Health
Education & Behavior, 30(6): 740-755.
Hoehner
CM, Brennan
LK, Brownson RC, Handy SL, Killingsworth
RE. (2003). Opportunities to Integrate Public Health and Urban
Planning Approaches for Promoting Active Community Environments:
A Methodological Perspective. American
Journal of Health Promotion, 18(1):
14-20.
Kreuter MW, Lukwago SN, Brennan
LK, Scharff DP, Wadud ES. (2002).
Effectiveness of tailored and non-tailored educational materials
to promote nutrition label reading. Health
Education, 102(6): 271-279.
Brownson
RC, Baker EA, Houseman RA, Brennan
LK, Bacak SJ. (2001). Environmental
and policy determinants of physical activity in the United
States. American
Journal of Public Health, 91(12): 1995-2003.
Baker
EA, Brennan
LK, Brownson RC, Houseman RA. (2000).
Measuring the determinants of physical activity in the community:
Current and future directions. Research
Quarterly for Exercise and Sport, 71(2):
146-58.
Kreuter
M, Farrell D, Olevitch L, Brennan
L. (2000). Tailoring health messages:
Customizing communication with computer technology. Mahwah,
NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Inc., 270 pp.
Scharff
DP, Homan S, Kreuter MK, Brennan
LK. (1999). Determinants of physical
activity in women across the life span: Implications for physical
activity interventions. Women
and Health, 29(2): 115-34.
Kreuter
MW, Scharff DP, Brennan
LK, Lukwago SN. (1997). Physician
recommendations for diet and physical activity: Which patients
get advised to make changes? Preventive
Medicine, 26(6): 825-33.
Kreuter
MW, Brennan
LK, Scharff DP, Lukwago SN. (1997).
Do nutrition label readers eat healthier diets? Behavioral
correlates of adults’ use of food labels. American Journal
of Preventive Medicine, 13(4): 277-83.
Brennan
LK,
Barfield S, Gibbons J. (1996). Assignment of gender and gender
profiles in dyadic communication (Summary). Fugue,
1(1): 19-24.
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REPORTS
Brennan
Ramirez LK,
Barnidge EK, Scharff DS, Armbrecht EA. Family Planning in
Missouri: A Public Health Crisis. Final report to the Missouri
Family Health Council and the Missouri Foundation for Health.
January 2005.
Brennan
Ramirez LK,
Bender
JM, Baker EA, Mazdra BM. Setting
a Direction for the Missouri Foundation for Health Mental
Health and Substance Abuse Grant Program. Final report to
the Missouri Foundation for Health. April 2004.
Brennan
LK,
Armbrecht EA. Creating Opportunities for Partnership and Responsibility:
Results of the
June 5, 2003 Meeting. Final report to the Missouri Family
Health Council and the Missouri Foundation for Health. July
2003.
Baker
EA, Brennan
LK, Williams D. Healthy Communities
Initiative: Evaluation report. Final report to the Daughters
of Charity. November 2000.
Baker
EA, Homan S, Brennan
LK. Nurses for Newborns and Abraham’s
Children collaboration: Giving to and teaching families in
need. Final report to the Health Funders. February 2000.
Brennan
LK,
Kreuter MW, Lukwago SN, Mlady V, Scharff DP. Pretesting of
the Questran Compliance Predictor Tool. Final Report. October
1996.
Brennan
LK,
Kreuter MW. Report: Summary of background research for Meridia
tailored disease management program. May 1996.
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PRESENTATIONS
Lemes
A, Baker EA, Schootman M, Kelly
C, Harrold K. A walk in the park: Not necessarily
a healthy, serene experience.
American Public Health Association Annual Conference,
Boston, MA: November, 2006.
Smith
C, Baker EA, Kelly C,
Strayhorn J, Schootman M. Evaluating
the effectiveness of communication and outreach strategies
for a community based approach to addressing disparities in
access to fruits and vegetables. American Public
Health Association Annual Conference, Boston, MA: November,
2006.
Erickson
J., Bender JM. Using
Web-based Technology to Support Evidence-based Intervention
Planning and Health Promotion. American School Health Association
Annual Conference, St. Louis, MO: October, 2006.
Brennan
Ramirez LK, Elder
S. Intervention
Planning: An Evidence-based Tool to Support State and Local
Efforts. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Asthma
Meeting, Atlanta, GA: September, 2006.
Brennan
Ramirez LK, Bender JM, Baker
EA.
Intervention
MICA: A tool that enables communities to be at the center
of public health planning. Community Development Society Annual
Conference, St. Louis, MO: June, 2006.
Simoes
EJ, Land GH, Bender
JM, Brennan Ramirez LK.
Priority
MICA: An application to prioritize public health resources.
2nd North American Congress of Epidemiology, Seattle,
WA: June, 2006.
Kelly
C,
Schootman M, Barnidge E, Baker EA, Lemes A. Are all sidewalks
created equal? The association of area-level race and income
and sidewalk conditions. International Congress on Physical
Activity and Health, Atlanta, GA: 2006.
Brennan
LK,
Bender
JM, Baker EA, Land G. MICA: A community-based
infrastructure for needs assessment, priority setting and
intervention planning. American Public Health Association
National Conference, Philadelphia PA: December 2005.
Kelly
C,
Baker E, Barnidge E, Strayhorn J. The influence of social,
environmental and policy factors on physical activity among
African Americans. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention,
Chronic Disease Annual Conference, Atlanta, GA: 2005.
Brennan
Ramirez LK.
Building and Sustaining Partnerships. Presented at the STEPS
to a Healthier New York grantee meeting, Albany, NY: November,
2005.
Metzler
M, Brennan
Ramirez LK. Learning by Doing:
Incorporating Social Determinants of Health Inequity into
Chronic Disease Prevention Programming. Presented at the National
Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion Annual Meeting,
Atlanta, GA: March, 2005.
Kelly
C,
Baker E, Strayhorn J. Concept mapping of environmental factors
related to physical activity in urban African American adults.
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention,
Chronic Disease Annual Conference, Washington DC: 2004.
Brennan
Ramirez LK,
Baker EA. Intervention MICA: Community Health Assessment.
Presented at the Community Health Assessment Annual Meeting
(CDC/NAPHSIS), Atlanta, GA: September, 2004.
Baker
EA, Brennan
LK, Ellis D, Hoehner CM, Williams
D. Assessing the Livability of Communities: Using innovative
methods to observe community environmental influences on health
and health-related behaviors. Presented at the “Creating Livable
Communities” symposium, St. Louis, MO: April, 2003.
Baker EA, Williams D, Kelly C., Nanney MS, Vo H, Barnidge
E, Schootman M, Struthers J. Access, income and racial composition:
dietary patterns aren’t just a personal choice. American Public
Health Association Annual Conference, San Francisco, CA: 2003.
Oswald,
D., Kelly C., Clark, E. (1999). Dyadic
Study of Friendship Maintenance. Midwest Psychological
Association Conference, Chicago, IL.
Brennan
LK.
Developing Indicators for Activity Friendly Communities: Phases
I and II. Presented at the Active Community Environments (ACEs)
and Active Living Policy and Environmental Studies (ALPES)
meeting, Atlanta, GA: January, 2003.
| Brennan
LK,
Brownson RC, Hollander M, Orleans CT. Developing Indicators
for Activity Friendly Communities. Presented at the
“Cultivating Healthier Communities through Research,
Policy, and Practice”16th National Conference on Chronic
Disease Prevention and Control, Atlanta, GA: February,
2002.
Brennan
LK,
Baker EA, Haire-Joshu D., Brownson RC. Community determinants
of physical activity in the United States: Measuring
protective social factors as mediators of behavior.
Poster presented at the “Innovative Approaches to Understanding
and Influencing Physical Activity” Conference at the
Cooper Institute, Dallas, TX: October, 2001.
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