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Session: What Can Communities Do to Address Childhood Overweight?
4131.0: Tuesday, November 07, 2006: 12:30 PM-2:00 PM
Oral
What Can Communities Do to Address Childhood Overweight?
The prevalence of childhood obesity continues to rise with each new round of national nutrition monitoring and surveillance data, and the health risks to US children increase. Communities are developing innovative approaches to reach families to improve nutrition and physical activity behaviors in a variety of settings. This session will highlight some success stories and exciting experiments in community prevention efforts.
Learning Objectives: At the conclusion of this session, participants will: 1. Be able to describe a variety of approaches to the prevention of childhood obesity in community settings. 2. Understand the need for collaboration and innovation in the development of community programs for obesity prevention.
Moderator(s):Pat Crawford, DrPH, RD
12:30 PMKeystone Active Zone: Promoting physical activity in the community  [ Recorded presentation ]
Jennifer Kenny, BS, Cynthia Malinen, MA, Allison Topper, MS
12:42 PMInnovative approach to preventing childhood obesity: Improving nutrition for kindergarten students in an urban setting through an integrated farm to school program  [ Recorded presentation ]
Allison Karpyn, PhD, Gary Foster, PhD, Bonnie Hallam, MA, Tegan Hagy
12:54 PMWhat's a child nutrition program? Subsidized housing and the Low-Income Energy Assistance Program (LIHEAP) linked to improved growth outcomes for young children of color  [ Recorded presentation ]
Stephanie Ettinger de Cuba, MPH, Deborah A. Frank, MD, Nicole Neault, MPH, Mariana Chilton, PhD, MPH, John Cook, PhD, Carol Berkowitz, MD, Maureen Black, PhD, Patrick Casey, MD, Diana B. Cutts, MD, Alan F. Meyers, MD, MPH, Nieves Zaldivar, MD, Suzette Levenson, MPH, MEd, Timothy Heeren, PhD, Zhaoyan Yang, MS
1:06 PMParental preferences for an obesity program
Ihuoma Eneli, MD MS, Ioanna Kalogiros, MA, Kaitlin McDonald, BS, David Todem, PhD
1:18 PMPartnerships for preventing childhood obesity: Lessons and impacts from the farm to school movement  [ Recorded presentation ]
Anupama Joshi, MS, Gail Feenstra, EdD, RD, Kelly Erwin, BA
1:30 PMHow Community Empowerment Leads to Improved Access to Fruits, Vegetables, and Physical Activity in Low-income California Communities  [ Recorded presentation ]
Desiree R. Backman, DrPH, RD, Mark Martin, BA, Valarie Scruggs, BA, Tanya Garbolino, MBA
1:42 PMLeveraging large organizational expertise, reach and resources to address child overweight  [ Recorded presentation ]
Lynn Fredericks, mike Metallo
See individual abstracts for presenting author's disclosure statement and author's information.
Organized by:Food and Nutrition
Endorsed by:Community Health Planning and Policy Development; Medical Care; Public Health Education and Health Promotion; School Health Education and Services; Socialist Caucus
CE Credits:CME, Health Education (CHES), Nursing

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