4318.0: Tuesday, October 23, 2001: 4:30 PM-6:00 PM

Poster Session

Fit, Physical, and Fun Posters

Presenters will address innovative strategies for promoting health, good nutrition, and fitness. Changing the fitness program environment and team approaches to enhance prospects for achieving physical activity goals will be examined, along with innovative strategies for promoting health and nutritious eating patterns among children and adolescents.
See individual abstracts for presenting author's disclosure statement.
Learning Objectives: Select effective approaches to improve the health, food selection, and physical activities of children and youth.
Organizer(s):Deitra Elaine Wengerrt
Board 1Cultural factors impacting nutrition education programs - Withdrawn
Rolinda Borsook Baker, MSPH, Denise Globe, PhD
Board 1Factors associated with obesity among school-age children in Fort Worth, Texas
Ximena Urrutia-Rojas, DrPH, John A Menchaca, MD, Naveed Ahmad, MD, Manuel Bayona, MD, PhD, Rosa Rosario-Rosado, MS
Board 2Health care of the college student: Assessing needs and awareness of services
Brenda Soto-Torres, PhD, MPHE, CHES
Board 3Implementation and development of school nutrition policy: School board members' perceptions
Tabia Henry, MPH, Seraphine Pitt, BS, Kelli McCormack Brown, PhD, CHES, Victoria Berends, BS, Peggy Agron, MA, RD, Amanda Purcell, MPH
Board 4Meta-analysis of school-based nutrition programs that focus on increasing consumption of fruits and vegetables
Mollie W. Howerton, PhD, MPH, Linda Nebeling, PhD, MPH, RD, Julie Legler, ScD, David Berrigan, PhD MPH, Rachel Stolzenberg-Solomon, PhD, MPH, RD
Board 5Sustainability of a school-based nutrition and fitness program targeting ethnic minority adolescents - Withdrawn
Andrette T. Ward, MD, MPH, Eloisa L. Gonzalez, MD, MPH, Joanne Leslie, ScD, William J. McCarthy, PhD, Antronette K. Yancey, MD, MPH, Cindy I. Young, MPH, RD, Judith M. Siegel, PhD, MSHyg
Board 5Use of formative research and social marketing principles in the development of an adolescent physical activity program
Brad L. Neiger, PhD, CHES, Rosemary Thackeray, PhD, MPH, Michael D. Barnes, PhD, CHES, Susan C. Hill, PhD, CHES
Board 6Using the School Health Index to promote healthy eating and physical activity among urban middle school students
Keisha L. Shropshire, MPH, Linda Lloyd, PhD, BettyAnn Creighton
Board 7Weight and Body Image Trends in South Carolina Adolescents
Hylan D Shoob, MSPH, PhD, Roger G Sargent, PhD, J Wanzer Drane, PhD, Keith J Zulig, MSPH
Board 8Why Children in the United States do Not Walk or Bike to School: 1999 Survey Elucidates Parental Concerns
Catherine Staunton, MD, Ann Dellinger, PhD
Sponsor:School Health Education and Services
CE Credits:Chiropractic, Pharmacy, Social Work

The 129th Annual Meeting of APHA