Early Release
June 2012, Vol. 42, No. 6
Commuting Distance, Cardiorespiratory Fitness, and Metabolic Risk
June 2012, Vol. 42, No. 6
Obesity and Severe Obesity Forecasts Through 2030
June 2012, Vol. 42, No. 6
In This Issue
Healthy People Goals for Reducing Childhood Obesity: Closing the Energy Gap
Despite the federal government’s established goals for reducing childhood obesity, a metric linking obesity prevalence goals to interventions has been missing. In their study analyzing National Health and Nutrition Examination Surveys from 1970-2008, Wang and colleagues estimate per-person reductions in daily "energy gap" (defined as calories consumed over calories expended), and conclude that a reduction of 23 kcal/day is necessary to achieve Healthy People 2020 goals for youth aged 2-19. MORE
Cardiorespiratory Fitness, Alcohol, and Mortality in Men: The Cooper Center Longitudinal Study
A study by Kerem Shuval and colleagues finds that although moderate and high cardiorespiratory fitness have established protective effects, there is not yet sufficient evidence to demonstrate that low-to-moderate alcohol consumption significantly modifies the association between fitness and mortality in a cohort of nearly 30,000 men. MORE
Recommendation from the Community Preventive Services Task Force for Use of Collaborative Care for the Management of Depressive Disorders
There is strong evidence that a collaborative care model for managing depressive disorders leads to greater effectiveness in improving depressions symptoms, adherence to treatment, response to treatment, and remission and recovery from depression. A commentary from the Community Preventive Services Task Force in the current issue of AJPM provides recommendations and rationales for such a multicomponent, healthcare system-level intervention. MORE
Physical Activity and Physical Fitness: Standardizing Assessment with the PhenX Toolkit
The PhenX Toolkit is a publically available, web-based catalog that provides investigators with measures and background information to enhance their studies. As more evidence continues to support the benefits of a physically active lifestyle, Haskell and colleagues address the research domains of physical activity and physical fitness to underscore how physical activity and physical fitness measures not only benefit researchers in large-scale genetic studies, but can also be utilized by those in multiple disciplines such as cancer, diabetes, cardiovascular health and obesity. MORE
Latest Supplement
An Agenda for Public Health Systems and Services Research
The articles in the May supplement to AJPM propose a research agenda for better understanding the nature of the public health workforce, as well as the best ways to structure public health departments, assure effective and high-quality public health services and structure new partnerships for research. MORE
Latest Theme
Geographic Information Systems and Childhood Obesity
The neighborhoods in which children and adolescents live and spend their time play a role in whether or not they eat a healthy diet, get enough exercise, or become obese, concludes a collection of articles in this theme issue of AJPM. Six studies use the latest concepts and methods in geographic information systems (GIS)-based research to determine how geographical location affects physical health. MORE
