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Session: Improving the Community's Health through Obesity Prevention Programs
3058.0: Monday, November 06, 2006: 8:30 AM-10:00 AM
Oral
Improving the Community's Health through Obesity Prevention Programs
Lack of physical activity and obesity are increasingly recognized as major health risks. The speakers in this session will describe several programs designed to increase physical activity and reduce obesity. The session will include presentations about research designed to discover understanding of physical activity guidelines and individual perceptions about physical activity. The session will also include discussions of state efforts to address obesity and lack of physical activity.
Learning Objectives: At the conclusion of the session, the participant (learner) in this session will be able to: 1. Discuss policy and environmental strategies that could be employed to sustain a statewide physical activity initiative. 2. Identify barriers to physical activity and nutrition among African American women. 3. List the common characteristics of obesity prevention and control intervention strategies implemented by state health departments.
Moderator(s):Jeffrey S. Hallam, PhD
8:30 AMInnovative approach to impacting phsyical activity levels with a state wide campiagn  [ Recorded presentation ]
Alice A. Jaglowski, MSH, CHES
8:45 AMExamining knowledge of national physical activity recommendations for health in the 2005 NCI Health Information National Trends Survey (HINTS)
Audie A. Atienza, PhD, Amy L. Yaroch, PhD, Richard Moser, PhD, Uriyoán Colón Ramos, MPA, Louise Mâsse, PhD, Gary Bennett, PhD
9:00 AMSway of the hips: Of course black women care if they are overweight
Phoebe Butler-Ajibade, EdD
9:15 AMImproving community health: Research-based findings of demographic and behavioral characteristics associated with obesity in rural Michigan
Mikiyasu Hakoyama, MA
9:30 AMCharacteristics of intervention strategies implemented by state health departments addressing obesity prevention and control  [ Recorded presentation ]
Robin Hamre, MPH, RD, Frederick Fridinger, DrPH, CHES
See individual abstracts for presenting author's disclosure statement and author's information.
Organized by:Public Health Education and Health Promotion
Endorsed by:Community Health Planning and Policy Development; Food and Nutrition
CE Credits:CME, Health Education (CHES), Nursing

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