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Health Promotion and Community Health Sciences

# overview
Dr. McKyer is an expert in 1) community-based participatory approaches, 2) social and structural determinants of health disparities & inequities - especially for racial/ethnic minorities, and 3) professional and organizational preparation for climate and diversity among health professions.

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Special Supplemental Nutrition Program For Women, Infants, And Children (WIC) Food Package

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3.1 Primary Prevention Interventions To Modify Behaviours Or Promote Wellbeing

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3 Prevention Of Disease And Conditions, And Promotion Of Well-being

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35 Commerce, Management, Tourism And Services

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Attention Deficit Disorder With Hyperactivity

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5201 Applied And Developmental Psychology

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3.1 Primary Prevention Interventions To Modify Behaviours Or Promote Wellbeing

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3 Prevention Of Disease And Conditions, And Promotion Of Well-being

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Indiana University Bloomington - (Bloomington, Indiana, United States)

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California State University, Northridge - (Northridge, California, United States)

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Indiana University Bloomington - (Bloomington, Indiana, United States)

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Enhancing Development and Generating Excellence in Scholarship (EDGES) Fellow

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1,000 Inspiring Black Scientists in America

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What are Asian-American youth consuming? A systematic literature review.

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Self-Perceptions and Factors Associated With Being Put Down at School Among Middle and High School Students.

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Rural versus urban Texas WIC participants' fruit and vegetable consumption.

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Integrating the Principles of Socioecology and Critical Pedagogy for Health Promotion Health Literacy Interventions.

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Abstract C10: Raising HPV awareness in immigrant populations: Are health educators prepared to address health literacy challenges?

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American Association for Cancer Research (AACR)

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Dispositional, ecological and biological influences on adolescent tranquilizer, Ritalin, and narcotics misuse.

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Effectiveness of the Radio as a Health Information Source

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Evaluating the Influence of the Revised Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) Food Allocation Package on Healthy Food Availability, Accessibility, and Affordability in Texas.

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A Biopsychosocial Examination of ATOD Use among Middle and High School Students.

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Motivations, Barriers, and Behaviors Related to Obtaining and Discussing Family Health History: A Sex-Based Comparison Among Young Adults.

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Use of tobacco retailer inspections to reduce tobacco sales to youth: do inspections increase retailer compliance?

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Prevalence of anxiety and depression in South Asia during COVID-19: A systematic review and meta-analysis.

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Children's healthy eating habits and parents' socio-demographic characteristics in rural Texas, USA

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Managing clustered data using hierarchical linear modeling.

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The Impact of School Bullying on Physical Activity in Overweight Youth: Exploring Race and Ethnic Differences.

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Inhalant use among indiana school children, 1991-2004.

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IMPACT OF GROWING UP WITH A CHRONICALLY ILL SIBLING ON WELL SIBLINGS' EARLY ADULTHOOD FUNCTIONING

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Changes in Levels and Determinants of Maternal Health Service Utilization in Ethiopia: Comparative Analysis of Two Rounds Ethiopian Demographic and Health Surveys.

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Mexican American Mothers Perceptions of their Role in Childhood Obesity Prevention: A Qualitative Study

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Perceived barriers to children's active commuting to school: a systematic review of empirical, methodological and theoretical evidence.

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Examining the Dietary Diversity of Children in Niger.

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Assessment of school wellness policies implementation by benchmarking against diffusion of innovation framework.

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Texas GROW! EAT! GO! Preliminary Findings of Garden, Nutrition and Physical Activity Interventions on Child Behaviors and Obesity

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Perceived risk of developing diabetes in early adulthood: beliefs about inherited and behavioral risk factors across the life course.

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UNDERSTANDING OTC AND PRESCRIPTION DRUG ABUSE IN YOUNG PEOPLE TRANSITIONING FROM LATE ADOLESCENCE TO YOUNG ADULTHOOD

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Epidemiology of mental health problems in COVID-19: a review.

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Factors that influence the intention to use mobile phone caller tunes for patient reporting of adverse drug reactions: a qualitative study.

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Impact of school-based vegetable garden and physical activity coordinated health interventions on weight status and weight-related behaviors of ethnically diverse, low-income students: Study design and baseline data of the Texas, Grow! Eat! Go! (TGEG) cluster-randomized controlled trial.

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Adolescent Social Networks and Alcohol Use: Variability by Gender and Type.

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Risk Perceptions for Developing Type 2 Diabetes among Overweight and Obese Adolescents with and without a Family History of Type 2 Diabetes.

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Continuing education effects on cultural competence knowledge and skills building among health professionals

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Children's active commuting to school: an interplay of self-efficacy, social economic disadvantage, and environmental characteristics.

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An introduction to item response theory for health behavior researchers.

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Using Family-Focused Garden, Nutrition, and Physical Activity Programs To Reduce Childhood Obesity: The Texas! Go! Eat! Grow! Pilot Study.

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Prevalence of comorbid psychiatric disorders among people with autism spectrum disorder: An umbrella review of systematic reviews and meta-analyses.

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A Primer on Bootstrap Factor Analysis as Applied to Health Studies Research

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Examining Nutritional Adequacy and Dietary Diversity Among Women in Niger.

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Increasing Access to Physical Activity Within Low Income and Diverse Communities: A Systematic Review.

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Psychosocial correlates of smokeless tobacco use among Indiana adolescents.

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Determinant Factors of Food Consumption in Low Income Rural Communities

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Elementary school personnel's perceptions on childhood obesity: pervasiveness and facilitating factors.

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A systematic review of factors utilized in preconception health behavior research.

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Influences of Fruit and Vegetable Intake among Asian Youth on Texas WIC

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Living and Learning about Racism: A Qualitative Study of International Students of African Descents Experiences in the United States

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Diet Quality as a Mediator of the Relation between Income-to-Poverty Ratio and Overweight/Obesity among Adults: Moderating Effect of Sex

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The Influence of Organizational Culture on School-Based Obesity Prevention Interventions: A Systematic Review of the Literature.

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What about Health Educators? Nutrition Education for Allied Health Professionals: A Review of the Literature

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Understanding nonprescription and prescription drug misuse in late adolescence/young adulthood.

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Analysis of theory utilization among prenatal HIV-testing research

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Using the bioecological model to predict risk perception of marijuana use and reported marijuana use in adolescence.

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A Comparative Study of Smoking in American and Japanese Adolescents: Self, Social Influences, and Health Beliefs

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African-American Fathers' Perspectives on Their Children's Health Education: A Qualitative, Exploratory Study.

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The Physical Activity Environment among Rural, Low-Income Children

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Influence of the Home Food Environment on Children's Fruit and Vegetable Consumption: A Study of Rural Low-Income Families.

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Health Literacy Competence of Health Education Students in Three Universities

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Active commuting to school: a test of a modified integrative model.

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Prevalence of mental disorders in South Asia: An umbrella review of systematic reviews and meta-analyses.

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Nutrition Education and School Wellness Policies: The Need for Registered Dietitians

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Assessment of Health Disparities Related Academic Preparation among Public Health Department Staff

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Parent and peer influence on recreational use of pain medication: are their influences similar to that of marijuana use?

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Raising HPV awareness in immigrant populations: Are health educators prepared to address health literacy challenges?

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Factor structure and psychometrics of the Adolescent Health Risk Behavior survey instrument.

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Moving Towards Equity as a Driver of Health Behavior Research

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Risk Factors for Childhood Obesity among Asian Americans: A Systematic Review of Literature and Recommendations for Health Care Research.

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Weight-Related Barriers for Overweight Students in an Elementary Physical Education Classroom: An Exploratory Case Study with One Physical Education Teacher.

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ATOD prevention programming in the non-school hours and adolescent substance use.

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Understanding the essence and lived experience of self-care management among African-American men living with type 2 diabetes

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A parent-focused pilot intervention to increase parent health literacy and healthy lifestyle choices for young children and families.

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Texas GROW! EAT! GO! (Using Family-focused Gardening, Nutrition, and Physical Activities to Prevent Childhood Obesity)

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College students' perceived disease risk versus actual prevalence rates.

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Prevalence of mental disorders among people who are homeless: An umbrella review.

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Risk Factors for Childhood Obesity among Asian Americans: A Systematic Review of Literature and Recommendations for Health Care Research

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Planting the Seed: An Evaluation of a Community Youth Summit

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University Library System, University of Pittsburgh

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Food-shopping environment disparities in Texas WIC vendors: a pilot study.

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Examining the Disparities in Children's Healthy Eating by Parents Socio-Demographic Characteristics in Rural Texas

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Where are they? The inclusion of African-American men in empirical studies of type 2 diabetes self-care management

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Correlates of family health history discussions between college students and physicians: does family cancer history make a difference?

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Announcement of Availability of Funds for Supporting and Enabling Early Innovation to Advance Adolescent Health and Prevent Teen Preganancy (Tier 2A)

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Office of Adolescent Health - (Rockville, Maryland, United States)

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Are Rural Mothers and Infants Benefiting from Changes in National Women, Infants and Children (WIC) Policy?

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Health Resources and Services Administration - (Rockville, Maryland, United States)

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Physical Activity Impacts of a Planned Activity-Friendly Community: The What, Where, When and Why of Environmental Approaches to Obesity Prevention

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National Institutes of Health - (Bethesda, Maryland, United States)

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Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) 2009 Food Package Revisions on Participants in Rural Areas with Extreme Poverty Levels: Impact on Infant Breastfeeding, Infant Feeding, and Health Outcomes

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Health Resources and Services Administration - (Rockville, Maryland, United States)

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Rural Health Research Grant Program Cooperative Agreement

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Health Resources and Services Administration - (Rockville, Maryland, United States)

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Texas A&M Health Science Center; Health Promotion & Community Health Sciences; 1266 TAMUS

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Health Promotion and Community Health Sciences

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Health Promotion and Community Health Sciences@en-US

# inTheNews[].label
Texas A&M University Announces 2020 EDGES Fellows

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Atehortua, Nelson (2012-10). The Role of Acculturation in Nutrition Behaviors among Low Income Hispanic Women Living in Texas. Doctoral Dissertation.