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3121.0: Monday, November 05, 2007: 10:30 AM-12:00 PM | ||||
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| Nutrition in Schools is a joint effort by Food and Nutrition & School Health and Education sections and addresses a national priority area—the childhood obesity epidemic, as recognized by numerous federal, state, local and industry organizations. The purpose of this session is to explore a variety of efforts to address obesity prevention through schools and discuss lessons learned across a variety of geographic and socio-demographic characteristics. Work presented during this session is relevant to school and health administrators, providers and researchers. | ||||
| Learning Objectives: Recognize the multiple efforts across states addressing childhood obesity through schools. Discuss various program models, intervention strategies and behavioral mediators impacting food and activity policy implementation and evaluation in schools. | ||||
| Organizer(s): | Susie Nanney, PhD, MPH, RD | |||
| Moderator(s): | Susie Nanney, PhD, MPH, RD | |||
| 10:30 AM |  | Assessing attitudes, knowledge and intentions held by pre-service teachers regarding North Carolina's Healthy Active Children policy Jeff J. Milroy, MPH, David L. Wyrick, PhD, Muhsin Orsini, EdD, Laurie Bronson, MS | ||
| 10:50 AM | | Lunches from home associated with better dietary behaviors in California students Theresa A. Hastert, MPP, Susan H. Babey, PhD, E. Richard Brown, PhD | ||
| 11:10 AM | | School districts with high free and reduced lunch eligibility offer less healthy food and drink choices Marilyn S. Nanney, PhD, MPH, RD, Claudia Bohner, Michael Friedrichs | ||
| 11:30 AM | | Urban schools and communities are obesogenic environments which challenge behavioral approaches to obesity reduction Kimberly D. Campbell-Voytal, PhD, James P. Gutai, MD, Diane M. Sobecki-Ryniak, BSN | ||
| See individual abstracts for presenting author's disclosure statement and author's information. | ||||
| Organized by: | Food and Nutrition | |||
| Endorsed by: | Maternal and Child Health | |||
| CE Credits: | CME, Health Education (CHES), Nursing | |||
The 135th APHA Annual Meeting & Exposition (November 3-7, 2007) of APHA