Health Behavior

The Academy launched an Expert Panel on Health Behavior in 2011 to address the health needs of populations, providing a forum for nurse leaders to advance evidence-based innovations to promote health lifestyles as fundamental to health care delivery. The Academy through its work with members of the Health Behavior Expert Panel supported the United Nations High-Level two day meeting on Non-Communicable Diseases (NCDs) and urged the UN to include language in documents that encouraged nations to expand nursing capacity to address the prevention and treatment of NCDs and reduce risk factors by supporting expansion of nursing education, research, and promoting nursing leadership in policy development and implementation. Additionally, in 2011, Fellow Bernadette Mazurek Melnyk, PhD, RN, CPNP/PMHNP, FNAP, FAAN, led a panel discussion, America's Children in Peril: Solving the Obesity and Mental Health Epidemics, addressing the commonalties between mental and physical health problems among adolescents.

Policy & News:

• Press Release (May 31,2012): American Academy of Nursing Supports the 2012 WHO's World No Tobacco Day
• Press Release (September 20, 2011): American Academy of Nursing Supports the United Nations High-Level Meeting on NCDs
• Press Release (February 8, 2011): Edge Runner, Fellow Among Panelists Discussing Obesity and Mental Health Challenge

Publications:

• Nursing Outlook: Nursing scholarship and leadership in tobacco control (Volume 61, Issue 3 , Pages 181-182, May 2013)
• Nursing Outlook: Resolution: Smoke-free campus policies for schools of nursing and college campuses (Volume 61, Issue 3 , Page 183, May 2013)
• Nursing Outlook: Making a difference: Nursing scholarship and leadership in tobacco control (Volume 61, Issue 1 , Pages 31-42, January 2013)

Experts:

• Health Behavior Expert Panel