| Title |
An examination of the benefits of health promotion programs for the national fire service
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|---|---|
| Published in |
BMC Public Health, September 2013
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| DOI | 10.1186/1471-2458-13-805 |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
Walker SC Poston, Christopher K Haddock, Sara A Jahnke, Nattinee Jitnarin, R Sue Day |
| Abstract |
Firefighters suffer from high prevalence of obesity, substandard fitness, and cardiovascular-related deaths. There have been a limited number of firefighter health promotion programs that have been developed and empirically-tested for this important occupational group. We evaluated the health of firefighters from departments with well-developed health promotion programs and compared them with those from departments not having such programs using a large national sample of career fire departments that varied in size and mission. We measured a broad array of important individual firefighter health outcomes (e.g., body composition, physical activity, and general and behavioral health) consistent with national fire service goals and addressed significant statistical limitations unaccounted for in previous studies. |
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| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United Kingdom | 2 | 25% |
| Spain | 1 | 13% |
| United States | 1 | 13% |
| India | 1 | 13% |
| Unknown | 3 | 38% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Members of the public | 7 | 88% |
| Practitioners (doctors, other healthcare professionals) | 1 | 13% |
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| Country | Count | As % |
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| United Kingdom | 1 | <1% |
| Canada | 1 | <1% |
| Unknown | 374 | 99% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Student > Master | 85 | 23% |
| Other | 35 | 9% |
| Researcher | 34 | 9% |
| Student > Doctoral Student | 32 | 9% |
| Student > Bachelor | 32 | 9% |
| Other | 75 | 20% |
| Unknown | 83 | 22% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
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| Medicine and Dentistry | 139 | 37% |
| Nursing and Health Professions | 40 | 11% |
| Sports and Recreations | 24 | 6% |
| Psychology | 20 | 5% |
| Social Sciences | 12 | 3% |
| Other | 43 | 11% |
| Unknown | 98 | 26% |
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