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New Urbanist principles strive to improve the pedestrian experience so that communities and their resources are accessible even to those who do not have a car.
People with epilepsy living in areas with higher crime rates may have more seizures. This finding from the Illinois PRC PAUSE’s study has generated a flurry of media attention.
The opening of an HFFI-supported supermarket in a community that did not have a supermarket for nearly 30 years improved the retail food environment by offering and advertising a wide variety of healthy foods and beverages.
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The Illinois Prevention Research Center (PRC) and this website is supported by cooperative agreement No. 1U48DP005010 under the Health Promotion and Disease Prevention Research Centers funded by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The Institute for Health Research and Policy is the Illinois PRC's research home in the University of Illinois at Chicago. Lisa M. Powell, PhD, is the director and principal investigator of the Illinois PRC.
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Illinois Prevention Research Center
Institute for Health Research & Policy
University of Illinois at Chicago
1747 West Roosevelt Road MC 275
Chicago, IL 60608-1264
Email: IllinoisPRC@uic.edu
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