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DASH survey 2010
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FIND OUR GROUP ON FACEBOOK!
Join our facebook group 'DASH study- MRC' and keep up to date with news in the DASH study.

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change_for_life.jpg Change4Life – Eat Well, Move More, Live Longer
Change4Life is a society-wide movement that aims to prevent people from becoming overweight by encouraging them to eat better and move more.

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Deal DASH-DEAL
This is a new study that will enhance policy initiatives for school children from culturally diverse backgrounds to engage in healthy living strategies.

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Young People: DASH Findings

 

Around 6,500 students across 10 boroughs completed questionnaires on health behaviours, mental wellbeing, social support and social issues. Participants also had their height, weight, lung function and blood pressure measured. This is an enormous contribution to the study of ethnic disparities in health.

 

Click on The DASH Newsletter  and the pages on Ethnicity, religion and language, diet, exercise, feelings, home and neighbourhood, school and the future to view what we found out in the study.