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Impact and Cost-Effectiveness of Family Fitness Zones: A Natural Experiment in Urban Public Parks - 2012

Assessment of Food Offerings and Marketing Strategies in the Food-Service Venues at California Children's Hospitals - 2011

Economic Analysis of Physical Activity Interventions - 2011

How Much Observation Is Enough? Refining the Administration of SOPARC - 2011

Preventing Obesity and Its Consequences: Highlights of RAND Health Research - 2011

Discretionary Calorie Intake a Priority for Obesity Prevention: Results of Rapid Participatory Approaches in Low-Income US Communities - 2010

Examination of Perceived Neighborhood Characteristics and Transportation on Changes in Physical Activity and Sedentary Behavior: The Trial of Activity in Adolescent Girls - 2010

Not Enough Fruit and Vegetables or Too Many Cookies, Candies, Salty Snacks, and Soft Drinks? - 2010

Parks and Physical Activity: Why Are Some Parks Used More Than Others? - 2010

The Effect of Light Rail Transit on Body Mass Index and Physical Activity - 2010

Body Mass Index, Neighborhood Fast Food and Restaurant Concentration, and Car Ownership - 2009

Effects of Park Improvements on Park Use and Physical Activity: Policy and Programming Implications - 2009

Neighborhood Food Environments and Body Mass Index: The Importance of In-Store Contents - 2009

New Recreational Facilities for the Young and the Old in Los Angeles: Policy and Programming Implications - 2009

Social Capital and the Neighborhood Alcohol Environment - 2009

South Los Angeles Ban on Fast-Food Chains Misses the Mark - 2009

Zoning for Health? The Year-Old Ban on New Fast-Food Restaurants in South LA: The Ordinance Isn't a Promising Approach to Attacking Obesity - 2009

Alcohol Availability and Neighborhood Characteristics in Los Angeles, California and Southern Louisiana - 2008

Alcohol Outlet Density and Alcohol Consumption in Los Angeles County and Southern Louisiana - 2008

Alcohol and Tobacco Marketing Evaluating Compliance with Outdoor Advertising Guidelines - 2008

Body Mass Index Is Increasing Faster Among Taller Persons - 2008

Eating as an Automatic Behavior - 2008

Impact of a New Bicycle Path on Physical Activity - 2008

Multilevel Spatio-Temporal Dual Changepoint Models for Relating Alcohol Outlet Destruction and Changes in Neighbourhood Rates of Assaultive Violence - 2008

Neurophysiological Pathways to Obesity: Below Awareness and Beyond Individual Control - 2008

Obesity and the Built Environment: Changes in Environmental Cues Cause Energy Imbalances - 2008

Pathways to Obesity: Are People "Hardwired" to Overeat? - 2008

The Built Environment and Collective Efficacy - 2008

Why People Overeat: Rethinking the Causes of Obesity - 2008

Alcohol and Environmental Justice: The Density of Liquor Stores and Bars in Urban Neighborhoods in the United States - 2007

Availability of High School Extracurricular Sports Programs and High-Risk Behaviors - 2007

Commercial Venues as Supports for Physical Activity in Adolescent Girls - 2007

Comparing Perceived and Objectively Measured Access to Recreational Facilities as Predictors of Physical Activity in Adolescent Girls - 2007

Contribution of Public Parks to Physical Activity - 2007

Determinants of Social Capital Indicators at the Neighborhood Level: A Longitudinal Analysis of Loss of Off-Sale Alcohol Outlets and Voting - 2007

How Neighborhoods Can Reduce the Risk of Obesity - 2007

Neighborhood Design and Walking Trips in Ten U.S. Metropolitan Areas - 2007

Reliability of a Store Observation Tool in Measuring Availability of Alcohol and Selected Foods - 2007

Weekend Schoolyard Accessibility, Physical Activity, and Obesity: The Trial of Activity in Adolescent Girls (TAAG) Study - 2007

Alcohol Outlets, Gonorrhea, and the Los Angeles Civil Unrest: A Longitudinal Analysis - 2006

Collective Efficacy and Obesity: The Potential Influence of Social Factors on Health - 2006

Hispanic Concentration and the Conditional Influence of Collective Efficacy on Adolescent Childbearing - 2006

Park Use and Physical Activity in a Sample of Public Parks in the City of Los Angeles - 2006

Proximity to School and Physical Activity Among Middle School Girls: The Trial of Activity for Adolescent Girls Study - 2006

Public Parks and Physical Activity Among Adolescent Girls - 2006

Structural Interventions to Prevent HIV/sexually Transmitted Disease: Are They Cost-Effective for Women in the Southern United States? - 2006

System for Observing Play and Recreation in Communities (SOPARC): Reliability and Feasibility Measures - 2006

The Collectivity of Sexual Behaviour - 2006

Cost-Effective Allocation of Government Funds for Preventing HIV - 2005

Cost-Effective Allocation of Government Funds to Prevent HIV Infection - 2005

Does Neighborhood Deterioration Lead to Poor Health? - 2005

Maximizing Local Effect of HIV Prevention Resources - 2005

Neighborhood Effects and the Role of Communities in Restructuring - 2005

Prescription for a Healthy Nation: A New Approach to Improving Our Lives by Fixing Our Everyday World - 2005

Screening for Sexually Transmitted Diseases in Non-Traditional Settings: A Personal View - 2005

The Significance of Parks to Physical Activity and Public Health: A Conceptual Model - 2005

After School Activities, Overweight, and Obesity Among Inner City Youth - 2004

Beer Consumption and Premature Mortality in Louisiana: An Ecologic Analysis - 2004

Comparing the Cost-Effectiveness of HIV Prevention Interventions - 2004

Social Marketing of Condoms Is Great, but We Need More Free Condoms - 2004

Suburban Sprawl and Physical and Mental Health - 2004

Asymptomatic Sexually Transmitted Diseases: The Case for Screening - 2003

Maximizing the Benefit: HIV Prevention Planning Based on Cost-Effectiveness : A Practical Tool for Community Planning Groups and Health Departments - 2003

Neighborhood Physical Conditions and Health - 2003

Screening for Sexually Transmitted Diseases During Preparticipation Sports Examination of High School Adolescents - 2003

Street Outreach for HIV Prevention Effectiveness of a State-Wide Programme - 2003

The Acceptability and Behavioral Effects of Antibiotic Prophylaxis for Syphilis Prevention - 2003

The Value of Screening for Sexually Transmitted Diseases in an HIV Clinic - 2003

Why Is Poverty Unhealthy? Social and Physical Mediators - 2003

An Economic Evaluation of a School-Based Sexually Transmitted Disease Screening Program - 2002

The Population Consumption Model, Alcohol Control Practices, and Alcohol-Related Traffic Fatalities - 2002

When and Where Do Youths Have Sex? The Potential Role of Adult Supervision - 2002

Fixing a Fat Nation: Why Diets and Gyms Won't Save Us from the Obesity Epidemic - 2001

A Structural Model of Health Behavior: A Pragmatic Approach to Explain and Influence Health Behaviors at the Population Level - 2000

Broken Windows and the Risk of Gonorrhea - 2000

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