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Promoting Health and Physical Fitness in Youth and Young Athletes

142nd APHA Annual Meeting and Exposition (November 15 - November 19, 2014): http://www.apha.org/events-and-meetings/annual
Tuesday, November 18, 2014: 2:30 PM - 4:00 PM
Oral
This session features research and practice surrounding health and physical fitness in youth and young athletes.
Session Objectives: Describe the environment within which high school football players develop unhealthy weight gain behaviors. Identify important attitudes and normative influences that lead high school football players to develop unhealthy weight gain behaviors.
Moderator:
Natasha Aduloju-Ajijola, MPH

2:30pm
Focal Behavior and Performance by Male U.S. Service Academy Cadets
Todd Crowder, PhD and Stephen Erfle, PhD
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2:50pm
Understanding High School Football Players' Weight-Gaining Behaviors: An Application of the Integrated Behavioral Model
Katharine Head, PhD and Nicholas Iannarino, MA
3:10pm
Estimating Fitness Bias in Body Mass Index of Middle School Students
Stephen Erfle, PhD
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3:30pm
Developing innovative, evidence-based behavioral interventions for the prevention of alcohol and other drug use among college student-athletes
Jeffrey J. Milroy, MPH, DrPH, Muhsin Michael Orsini, EdD, David L. Wyrick, PhD, Melodie Fearnow-Kenney, PhD, Samantha Kelly, MPH and Robert Strack, PhD
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Organized by: Public Health Education and Health Promotion
Endorsed by: Alcohol, Tobacco, and Other Drugs

CE Credits: Medical (CME), Health Education (CHES), Nursing (CNE), Public Health (CPH) , Masters Certified Health Education Specialist (MCHES)

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