Influencing and informing public policy are explicit goals of active living research. Active living researchers, motivated by a desire to improve health, often wonder why their findings do not translate more readily into changes in the ''real world'' of local, state, and federal policies. The California Center for Public Health Advocacy (CCPHA) is a nonpartisan nonprofit research and advocacy o...

While Pakistan has made progress toward achieving Millennium Development Goal 5 for maternal health, it is unlikely to achieve the target; further, it is also not on track for Millennium Development Goal 4 regarding child health. Two low-cost, temperature stable and life-saving drugs, misoprostol and chlorhexidine, can respectively avert maternal and newborn deaths, and are particularly pertine...

Interpersonal communication is the basis for almost any type of cooperation. Changing patterns of communication may have an impact on the quality of cooperative work. In this paper, we describe user experiences in a longterm groupware project. We examined communication changes, both planned and unplanned, as a result of the system introduction. We found reduced face-to-face communication, task-...

PURPOSE The purpose of this article was to describe the process by which research findings informed the successful passage of legislation designed to increase opportunities for physical activity in Mississippi, and discuss implications and lessons learned from this process. DESIGN AND SETTING The article is descriptive and conceptual, and addresses the collaborative process by which research,...