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3263.0: Monday, November 8, 2004: 2:30 PM-4:00 PM | |||
Oral | |||
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| One strategy used to impact the obesity crisis is to influence policy makers to implement or change policies related to nutrition. The purpose of this session is to present the examples of policies that have been implemented in schools related to the nutrition environment, to provide an overview of neighbor food environment research and describe how policies and research can change the neighborhood food environment and to describe the importance of nation nutrition monitoring and how the data can be used to shape national policy. | |||
| Learning Objectives: 1. Identify one example of a nutrition related policy that has been implemented in the US. 2. Describe neightborhood food environment research. 3.Discuss how nutrition monitoring data can be used to shape national policy. | |||
| Susan B. Foerster, MPH, RD | |||
| Soda bans in the news: How is debate framed? Lori Dorfman, DrPH, Elena O. Lingas, MPH | |||
Model policies for changing the school nutrition and physical activity environment: Lessons learned from six California school districts ![[ Recorded presentation ]](/static/img/filetypes/16x16/wrf.gif){kind=small} Gail M. Woodward-Lopez, MPH, RD, J. Lewis, MA, RD, Patricia B. Crawford, DrPH, RD | |||
| Selling out our children's health: How to untangle sound policy from corporate influence Jacqueline Domac | |||
| Understanding and improving the neighborhood food environment of low-income communities: Implications for policy and research Leslie Mikkelsen, MPH, RD, Sana Chehimi, MPH | |||
| Tracking the American diet to shape nutrition policy Eric Hentges, PhD | |||
| Tracking the American diet to shape nutrition policy Maya T. Edmonds, MPH, RD | |||
| See individual abstracts for presenting author's disclosure statement and author's information. | |||
| Organized by: | Food and Nutrition | ||
| Endorsed by: | Public Health Education and Health Promotion; School Health Education and Services; Socialist Caucus | ||
| CE Credits: | CME, Health Education (CHES), Nursing, Nutrition | ||