Journal of Obesity & Weight Loss Therapy
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Melinda J Ickes

Assistant Professor, Department of Kinesiology and Health Promotion, University of Kentucky, USA

Biography

Dr. Melinda Ickes is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Kinesiology and Health Promotion at the University of Kentucky. She received her Ph.D. from the University of Cincinnati in 2010. Dr. Ickes teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in health promotion at the University of Kentucky including: Program Planning, Health Promotion and Behavior Change, and College Health Promotion. Dr. Ickes is a faculty associate for the Kentucky Center for Smoke-free Policy, and the Director of both Tobacco-free Take Action! and Go Tobacco-free, two initiatives to promote tobacco-free campuses.

Publications

A Systematic Review of Community-Based Childhood Obesity Prevention Programs

Background: The problem of overweight and obesity has reached epidemic proportions in the United States as well as globally. School-based interventions, after school interventions, home and family based interventions and community-based interventions have been developed to address the problem of childhood overweight and obesity. Understanding the b... Read More»

Melinda J Ickes and Manoj Sharma

Review Article: J Obes Weight Loss Ther 2013, 3: 188

DOI: 10.4172/2165-7904.1000188

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