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Year:: 2018
Contributor:: Goodman, Kaitlin (Creator); Harrison, Abigail (Creator); Lurie, Mark (Creator); McGarvey, Stephen (Creator)
Subject:: Obesity; global health; chronic disease

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Abstract:: Obesity-related chronic diseases such as diabetes and hypertension place a disproportionate burden on women in South Africa, where over 40% of females are obese. However, very little is known about what barriers women face and facilitators they employ to manage cardiometabolic disease. Additionally, few chronic disease interventions in under-resourced South African communities specifically target physical activity to improve health outcomes. To address these gaps in both literature and practice, this study has three key aims: to understand how health literacy is achieved amongst women in resource-limited environments, to explore the ways in which social support mechanisms serve as a facilitator to disease self-management, and to propose a physical activity intervention to reduce sedentary behavior.

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Use and Reproduction: This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License

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Goodman, Kaitlin, Harrison, Abigail, Lurie, Mark, et al., "Exercise as Medicine: A Physical Activity Intervention to Reduce Sedentary Behavior and Facilitate Chronic Disease Self-Management Amongst Older Women in a South African Township" (2018). Global Health Research Day. Brown Digital Repository. Brown University Library. https://repository.library.brown.edu/studio/item/bdr:788504/

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Global Health Research Day

The purpose of the annual Global Health Research Day is to showcase research done by a wide variety of Brown students working in global health. This includes Framework in Global Health Scholars, MHIRT Scholars, Global Health Scholarly Concentrators, and Global …
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Exercise as Medicine: A Physical Activity Intervention to Reduce Sedentary Behavior and Facilitate Chronic Disease Self-Management Amongst Older Women in a South African Township