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Healthy Student Initiative
Background information: York University is committed to helping students adopt
evidence-based health practices associated with reduced disease risk. The Healthy Students
Initiative (HSI) will evolve as a volunteer, health promotion cohort accessible for serial studies
linking risk markers, self report measures and health outcomes. Given the high prevalence of
mobile/smartphone/online computer access in university youth, it is a highly valuable testing
ground for online programming assisting health practice adoption. York University researchers
(P. Ritvo, N. Cercone) have assisted Nex J Systems, Inc. in developing the online HealthCoach
program which uses smartphones/computers to guide adoptions of healthy exercise/dietary
regimens and is subject to continual revision with improvements based on user-testing and
scientific evidence. This MITACS cluster will involve: 1) health promotion coaching to
students, coordinated with HealthCoach use; 2) collection and analyses of subject self report
Faculty Supervisor:
Nick Cercone;Paul Ritvo
Student:
Partner:
Nex J Systems Inc
Discipline:
Life Sciences
Sector:
University:
York University
Program:
Accelerate
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