141st APHA Annual Meeting and Exposition

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Recorded Annual Meeting Presentations (RAMP) are now available for purchase.
Only $90 for presenters, $140 for registered attendees and $200 for non-attendees.

Online Program

3030.0
Changing Food Environments: What do we need to know to promote community health?

Monday, November 4, 2013: 8:30 a.m. - 10:00 a.m.
Oral
This session will address policy, systems, and environmental changes to prevent obesity or impact other public health concerns; ; Increasing access to healthy and affordable foods; Built environment; Innovations in healthy food retail; Evaluation/measurement of the food environment (e.g. environmental audits, GIS, etc.); Disparities in local food environments; Influence of the food environment on diet; etc.
Moderator:
Lenard Lesser, MD MSHS

8:30am
Capturing what's missing: A comprehensive protocol to monitor changes in the food and physical activity environment for studying their impact on childhood obesity   
Michelle Kennedy, MPH, MCHES, Michael Yedidia, PhD and Punam Ohri-Vachaspati, PhD, RD
     
8:50am
An alternative food project reflecting complex interaction between consumers and the local food environment   
Lauren Anderson, MEd and Katherine Wright, MPH
9:10am
Developing a policy research agenda for healthy food access in rural communities: A transdisciplinary concept mapping approach   
Donna B. Johnson, PhD, RD, Emilee Quinn, MPH, Alice Ammerman, DrPH, Carmen Byker, PhD, Wesley Dean, PhD, Sheila Fleischhacker, PhD, JD, Jane Kolodinsky, PhD, Courtney Pinard, PhD, Stephanie Jilcott Pitts, PhD, Joseph R. Sharkey, PhD MPH RD and Marilyn Sitaker, MPH
     
  
9:30am
Is the local food environment related to obesity and dietary behavior? It may depend on how you characterize the food environment   
Susan Babey, PhD, Joelle Wolstein, MPP, Harold Goldstein, DrPH, Sam Krumholz and Allison Diamant, MD, MSHS
     

See individual abstracts for presenting author's disclosure statement and author's information.

Organized by: Food and Nutrition

CE Credits: Medical (CME), Health Education (CHES), Nursing (CNE), Public Health (CPH) , Masters Certified Health Education Specialist (MCHES)

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