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133rd Annual Meeting & Exposition
December 10-14, 2005
Philadelphia, PA
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133rd Annual Meeting & Exposition December 10-14, 2005 Philadelphia, PA |
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3279.0: Monday, December 12, 2005: 2:30 PM-4:00 PM | |||
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| The rapid increase in obesity has lead many communities across the US to create large-scale initiatives that include multiple sectors of the community. Not only are supermarkets, restaurants and schools considered as parnters, but transportation systems, recreational facilities, and neighborhood conditions are integrated in multi-disciplinary approaches to improving health and safety of children and adults. This session will provide concrete and descriptive methods of developing innovative plans and partnerships to improve community health. | |||
| Learning Objectives: 1. At the completion of the session, participants will be able to describe integrated community-based approaches to improving nutrition and physical activity. 2. At the completion of the session, participants will be able to describe key steps to creating and developing community-wide partnerships and initatives | |||
| Suzanne Havala Hobbs, DrPH, MS, RD | |||
Communities of Excellence in Nutrition, Physical Activity and Obesity Prevention: A blueprint for community action ![[ Recorded presentation ]](/static/img/filetypes/16x16/wrf.gif){kind=small} Valerie Quinn, MEd, S.B. Foerster, MPH, RD, Ellen C. Feighery, RN, MS, Sara Cook, MPH, CHES, Sharon B. Sugerman, MS, RD, FADA | |||
| Transportation that is Active and Safe for Kids (TASK): A community-based, multi-disciplinary approach to improving the safety of active travel to school Maryann Mason, PhD | |||
| Large-scale, community-wide initiatives to address child overweight benefit from public-private partnerships Lynn Fredericks, Mercedes Sanchez, RD, Candace R. Young, MS, Mindy Hu, RD | |||
| Reaching individuals where they are: Evaluating a multi-method approach to health and fitness interventions within the community Ijeoma Nwachuku, PhD | |||
| Active leadership taskforces developing active community environments James Kissee, BS Health/PE | |||
| See individual abstracts for presenting author's disclosure statement and author's information. | |||
| Organized by: | Food and Nutrition | ||
| Endorsed by: | Maternal and Child Health; Public Health Education and Health Promotion; Public Health Nursing | ||
| CE Credits: | CME, Health Education (CHES), Nursing | ||
The 133rd Annual Meeting & Exposition (December 10-14, 2005) of APHA