ArticleCancer causes & control : CCC2021
Be Well Communities™: mobilizing communities to promote wellness and stop cancer before it starts.
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- Systems approaches to scaling up: a systematic review and narrative synthesis of evidence for physical activity and other behavioural non-communicable disease risk factors.The international journal of behavioral nutrition and physical activity · 2024Pooled it
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- Understanding the impact of community-based sun safety interventions on a college campus in Texas.Journal of American college health : J of ACH · 2025Article
- Building and Maintaining a Whole Community Initiative: Health Communication in Practice with Be Well Communities™.Health communication · 2024Article
- Implementation and Evaluation of a Multi-level, Place-Based Tobacco Prevention and Control Program at a Minority-Serving Institution in Texas.Prevention science : the official journal of the Society for Prevention Research · 2024Article
- Enhancing food access in a comprehensive cancer center area of influence through local partner capacity building.Cancer medicine · 2024Article
- Be Well™ Acres Homes: a community-driven, evidence-based approach to reduce health inequities through sustained cross-sector partnership.Cancer causes & control : CCC · 2024Article
- Reducing risk for chronic disease: evaluation of a collective community approach to sustainable evidence-based health programming.BMC public health · 2024Article
- Creating and Activating an Implementation Community to Drive HPV Vaccine Uptake in Texas: The Role of an NCI-Designated Cancer Center.Vaccines · 2023Article
- Feasibility and Effectiveness of a Worksite-Weight-Loss Program for Cancer Prevention among School-District Employees with Overweight and Obesity.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Article
- From Cancer Epidemiology to Policy and Practice: the Role of a Comprehensive Cancer Center.Current epidemiology reports · 2022Review
- Be Well Baytown: Whole-Community Cancer Prevention Initiative Based on Multi-Sector Capacity and Partnership Building.Cancer control : journal of the Moffitt Cancer CenterArticle
- Parks and Recreation in Cancer Prevention: Bringing Cancer Center Outreach and Engagement Initiatives to Public Spaces Through Partnership With Local Governments.Cancer control : journal of the Moffitt Cancer CenterArticle
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Abstract
purposeIncreasingly, cancer centers are delivering population-based approaches to narrow the gap between known cancer prevention strategies and their effective implementation. Leveraging successful healthy community initiatives, MD Anderson developed Be Well Communities™, a model that implements evidence-based actions to directly impact people's lives.
methodsIn partnership with local organizations, MD Anderson's Be Well Communities team executed and evaluated 16 evidence-based interventions to address community priorities in healthy diets, physical activity, and sun safety. Evaluation included assessing the effectiveness of evidence-based interventions, stakeholders' perceptions of collaboration, and the population-level impact on dietary and physical activity behaviors among students using the School Physical Activity and Nutrition Survey and the System for Observing Fitness Instruction Time. Two-tailed t-tests were used to compare tested parameters at baseline and follow-up. p values less than .05 were considered significant.
resultsThis model achieved its early outcomes, including effectively implementing evidence-based interventions, building strong partnerships, increasing access to healthy foods, improving the built environment, and increasing healthy food and water consumption and moderate to vigorous physical activity among students (p < .001).
conclusionsBe Well Communities is an effective model for positively impacting community health which could be leveraged by others to deliver evidence-based actions to improve population health.
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