Health & Human Development
The Department of Health and Human Development is a group of dedicated faculty and staff whose interests, while diverse, center on one central theme: human beings. HHD works to help individuals from early childhood to mature adults though teaching, research, and service programs in both the public and private sectors.
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Factors Affecting Farmer Willingness and Ability to Adopt and Retain Improved Varieties of Orange-Fleshed Sweet Potato in Mozambique: A Qualitative Approach
(2018-10)The addition of orange-fleshed sweet potato (OFSP) to the food environment is an effective nutrition-sensitive agricultural approach to improve vitamin A intakes. However, the adoption of this biofortified crop merits ... -
Type 2 diabetes management among older American Indians: Beliefs, attitudes, and practices
(2018-07)Objective: The purpose of this study was to examine beliefs, attitudes, and practices of older American Indians regarding their type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) management. T2DM is one of the leading causes of morbidity and ... -
Grandmother and health care professional breastfeeding perspectives provide opportunities for health promotion in an American Indian community
(2018-07)Rationale While breastfeeding is well recognized as beneficial, rates of breastfeeding among American Indian women are below average and contribute to health inequities. Culturally specific approaches to breastfeeding ... -
Mindfulness-Based Processes of Healing for Veterans with Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder
(2018-11)OBJECTIVE: U.S. veterans are at increased risk of developing post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Prior studies suggest a benefit of mindfulness-based stress reduction (MBSR) for PTSD, but the mechanisms through which ... -
Characterizing the Aerobic and Anaerobic Energy Costs of Polynesian Dances
(2018-01)This study characterized both aerobic and anaerobic energy expenditure (EE) for several Polynesian dances in a group of experienced professional Polynesian dancers. Thirteen men and 17 women were tested using indirect ... -
Characterizing the Metabolic Intensity and Cardiovascular Demands of Walking Football in Southeast Asian Women
(2018-08)Given that the recent rise in obesity rates throughout Southeast Asia is disproportionately driven by women, part of the regional solution may be to encourage more habitual physical activity within this ... -
Striking changes in tea metabolites due to elevational effects
(2018-10)Climate effects on crop quality at the molecular level are not well-understood. Gas and liquid chromatography–mass spectrometry were used to measure changes of hundreds of compounds in tea at different elevations in Yunnan ... -
Associations of vitamin D status with markers of metabolic health: A community-based study in Shanghai, China
(2018-09)Aims This study investigated the associations of vitamin D status (i.e., serum 25(OH)D concentration) with markers of metabolic health and metabolic syndrome (MS), as well as possible gender differences in these associations, ... -
Fruit and vegetable desirability is lower in more rural built food environments of Montana, USA using the Produce Desirability (ProDes) Tool
(2018-02)The main objective of this study is to present a food environment measure, the Produce Desirability (ProDes) Tool, to assess consumer desirability of fruits and vegetables (FVs) based on generalizable sensory characteristics ... -
Teaching Undergraduate Students to Visualize and Communicate Public Health Data with Infographics
(2017-11)The purpose of this study was to explore the degree to which an infographic assignment facilitated student learning around health science issues, as well as the ways in which the assignment was an effective teaching tool. ... -
Opportunities and Trade-offs among BECCS and the Food, Water, Energy, Biodiversity, and Social Systems Nexus at Regional Scales
(2018-01)Carbon dioxide must be removed from the atmosphere to limit climate change to 2°C or less. The integrated assessment models used to develop climate policy acknowledge the need to implement net negative carbon emission ... -
Lifetime Trauma and Depressive Symptomatology Among Older American Indians: The Native Elder Care Study
(2018-08)We examined the association between lifetime traumatic events with or without trauma response symptoms and depressive symptomatology in American Indians aged ≥ 55 years from a tribe in the Southeastern US (N = 362). ... -
The influence of D-ribose ingestion and fitness level on performance and recovery
(2017-12)Background: Skeletal muscle adenosine triphosphate (ATP) levels are severely depleted during and following prolonged high intensity exercise. Recovery from these lower ATP levels can take days, which can affect performance ... -
Sedum Groundcover Variably Enhances Performance and Phenolic Concentrations of Perennial Culinary Herbs in an Urban Edible Green Roof
(2018-01)Urban agriculture on green roofs has tremendous potential to enhance food security, economic opportunities, and community building in cities yet faces unique ecological challenges including limited soil moisture content ... -
An Emerging Signature Pedagogy for Sustainable Food Systems Education
(2018-01)Concerns are growing over the ability of the modern food system to simultaneously achieve food security and environmental sustainability in the face of global change. Yet, the dominant tendency within university settings ... -
Teaching Food System Sustainability in Dietetic Programs: Need, Conceptualization, and Practical Approaches
(2011-01)Contemporary globalized food systems add new dimensions to the conceptualization of “healthy” food. The need to address biophysical, social, and environmental aspects of food systems is internationally recognized. In a ... -
Lower body functioning and correlates among older American Indians: The Cerebrovascular Disease and Its Consequences in American Indians Study
(2018-01)Background More than six million American Indians live in the United States, and an estimated 1.6 million will be aged ≥65 years old by 2050 tripling in numbers since 2012. Physical functioning and related factors in this ... -
A Reach, Effectiveness, Adoption, Implementation, Maintenance Evaluation of Weekend Backpack Food Assistance Programs
(2016-09)PURPOSE: The purpose of this study was to evaluate an ongoing statewide weekend backpack program through the Reach, Effectiveness, Adoption, Implementation, and Maintenance (RE-AIM) framework. DESIGN: Mixed-methods inquiry ... -
Health Literacy and Informed Consent Materials: Designed for Documentation, Not Comprehension of Health Research
(2017-07)Minority populations with health disparities are underrepresented in research designed to address those disparities. One way to improve minority representation is to use community-based participatory methods to overcome ...
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