The 130th Annual Meeting of APHA

Session: Community Efforts to Fight Obesity
4034.0: Tuesday, November 12, 2002: 8:30 AM-10:00 AM
Oral
Community Efforts to Fight Obesity
Learning Objectives: Refer to the individual abstracts for learning objectives
See individual abstracts for presenting author's disclosure statement and author's information.
Organizer(s):Susan M. Anderson, MS, RD
8:30 AMFun, Fit & Free!: Creating health within a resistant population
Gwen Foster, MPH, CHES
8:45 AMA team approach to the treatment of obesity
James Lenhard, MD, Ellen Clevenger-Firley, MS, RD, Margaret Keenan, PhD, Allen Prettyman, MSN, CFNP
9:00 AMScreening and Family Education: Overweight Prevention Pilot Study in Cambridge, MA
Virginia R Chomitz, PhD, Jessica J. Collins, MS, Juhee Kim, MS, Ellen Kramer, ScD RD, Robert McGowan, PhD
9:15 AMStrategic Alliance to Prevent Childhood Obesity
Leslie Mikkelsen, MPH, RD, Larry Cohen, MSW, Sherlina Nageer, MPH, Amanda Purcell, MPH, Sarah E. Samuels, DrPH, Arnell J. Hinkle, MPH, RD, Kenneth Hecht, JD, Harold Goldstein, DrPH, Laurie True, MPH, Maria Boyle, MS, RD, Lisa Craypo, MPH
9:30 AMPiloting a comprehensive school nutrition policy in Philadelphia schools: Altering the school as an obesigenic environment
Sandra B. Sherman, MS, EdM, EdD
9:45 AMUsing participatory photography to change obesigenic environments
Sonya J. Jones, Margaret E. Bentley, PhD
Organized by:Food and Nutrition
CE Credits:CME, Health Education (CHES), Nursing, Pharmacy, Social Work

The 130th Annual Meeting of APHA