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Child health psychologists need to promote adult disease prevention
Date:10/24/2007

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"Specialists in childhood behavior have a lot of good expertise that should now be employed to play a greater role in disease prevention," he says.

Many fields in and outside of public health have designed lifestyle and behavioral prevention programs, Tercyak says, but too few have been aimed at youngsters or fully taken into perspective the psychology of children.

"Increasingly, the energy in public health is being focused on the lives of children because we know these lifestyle habits form early and may carry forward into adulthood. Child health psychologists and other advocates for children's health need to be more involved at all levels of prevention research, applied work, and policy making in helping young people adopt good self-care,” he says.


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Contact: Becky Wexler
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202-687-5100
Georgetown University Medical Center
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