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5112.0: Wednesday, November 07, 2007: 12:30 PM-2:00 PM | ||||
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| Physical activity and good nutrition are critical to living a healthy life. Both schools and neighborhoods have a significant role to play, providing the environmental context for a large part of every child’s day. Innovative research has been exploring the roles in which these environments can and do influence children’s and families’ activity levels. In an unprecedented occurrence of translation, communities have been putting evidence into action as fast as the evidence can be built. This panel will present the latest findings describing the current, shocking state of Physical Education in schools, and the lack of usable physical activity spaces in communities. Then representatives from three community projects of the Healthy Eating, Active Communities initiative will provide solutions for improving the physical activity environment in schools and neighborhoods with the policies and programs they are implementing. | ||||
| Learning Objectives: • Prioritize issues related to school and neighborhood physical activity environments to identify key policy strategies. • Analyze neighborhood-level data to identify three policy solutions to communities lacking physical activity opportunities. • Develop strategies to engage underrepresented communities in identifying potential changes to increase access to physical activity in their communities • Define ways to measure short-term success in different stages of the policy-making process. | ||||
| Organizer(s): | Sarah Samuels, DrPH | |||
| Moderator(s): | Sarah Samuels, DrPH | |||
| 12:30 PM | Community-based Physical Activity Interventions: The Healthy Eating Active Communities Initiative (HEAC) Sarah Samuels, DrPH | |||
| 12:50 PM |  | Where's the space?!: Findings from the Healthy Eating, Active Communities neighborhood physical activity assessment survey in six low-income communities in California Sally J. Lawrence, MPH, Lisa Craypo, MPH, RD, Krista Stiffler, MPH, Sarah Stone-Francisco, MPH, Sarah Samuels, DrPH | ||
| 1:10 PM | | Policy strategies to improve physical activity and education in schools: Lessons learned from the community-driven work of the Healthy Eating Active Communities (HEAC) grantee of Baldwin Park Janice Riddle, Carol Strother, MacKenzie Manning-Mogan, Rosa Soto | ||
| 1:30 PM | | Two steps forward, two steps back: Changing the physical activity environment in Santa Ana, California Leah M. Fraser, PhD, Sandra R. Viera, BA | ||
| 1:50 PM | | Residents successfully advocate for a new park: Lessons learned from the Health Eating, Active Communities community of Chula Vista Tanya Rovira-Osterwalder, MS IMFT | ||
| See individual abstracts for presenting author's disclosure statement and author's information. | ||||
| Organized by: | Food and Nutrition | |||
| Endorsed by: | Community-Based Public Health Caucus; Maternal and Child Health | |||
| CE Credits: | CME, Health Education (CHES), Nursing | |||
The 135th APHA Annual Meeting & Exposition (November 3-7, 2007) of APHA