Dee W Edington

Biographic Data

ID7722657
NAMEDee W Edington
GIVEN NAMESDee W
FAMILY NAMEEdington
SIGNATUREEDINGTON D W
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of Michigan
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS5
TOTAL CITATIONS4
WORKS AS AUTHOR5
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1987
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2013
H-INDEX1

  • Predictors of Behavior Change Intention Using Health Risk Appraisal Data

    Mary L Marzec, Seung Pil Lee et al.ARTICLEAmerican Journal of Health Behavior2013

    Higher stress and lower perception of health status were directly associated with intention to change behavior. Incorporating stress management and awareness of health perception into health promotion strategies could enhance wellness programs by aligning programs with motivating factors

  • Participation in Employer-Sponsored Wellness Programs Before and After Retirement

    Louis Yen, Alyssa B Schultz et al.ARTICLEAmerican Journal of Health Behavior2006

    Wellness programs can attract retirees, especially if they participated before retirement and are offered a variety of programs

  • Internal Associations among Health-risk Factors and Risk Prevalence

    Alexandra Braunstein, Yi Li et al.ARTICLEAmerican Journal of Health Behavior2001

    The findings suggest that in addition to risk prevalence, individual characteristics and the level of association between risks are also important to consider when planning health interventions

  • Comparing the predictive accuracy of health risk appraisal

    Open AccessJulie A Gazmararian, Betsy Foxman et al.ARTICLEAmerican Journal of Public Health1991Cited by: 1References: 7

    BACKGROUND. From 1986 to 1987 the Carter Center of Emory University joined with the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) to develop a new, probability-based, adult health risk appraisal (HRA) instrument for the public domain. This new instrument is compared with the CDC HRA version to determine which is a more accurate predictor of mortality. METHODS. We compared predicted mortality risks from the CDC HRA and the Carter Center HRA with the observed …

  • The accuracy of health risk appraisal in predicting mortality

    Betsy Foxman, Dee W EdingtonARTICLEAmerican Journal of Public Health1987Cited by: 3References: 4

    In order to determine the accuracy of the Centers for Disease Control/Health Risk Appraisal (CDC/HRA) program, the authors compared observed to predicted mortality for the 3,135 persons followed from 1959-79 as part of the Tecumseh Community Health Study. The analysis was limited to smokers and never-smokers aged 25-60 whose 1959 questionnaires included at least the minimal variables for prediction using the CDC/HRA (age, sex, race, height, weigh…