- Title Information
- Title
- 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
- 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.
- Name
- Name Part
- Goodman, Kaitlin
- Role
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- Creator
- Name
- Name Part
- Harrison, Abigail
- Role
- Role Term (marcrelator)
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- Name
- Name Part
- Lurie, Mark
- Role
- Role Term (marcrelator)
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- Creator
- Name
- Name Part
- McGarvey, Stephen
- Role
- Role Term (marcrelator)
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- Origin Information
- Date Created
- 2018-05-01
- Subject (Local)
- Topic
- Obesity
- Subject (Local)
- Topic
- global health
- Subject (Local)
- Topic
- chronic disease
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- text
- Genre
- posters
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