Childhood Obesity Program Area
RWJF is committed to tackling one of the most urgent threats to the health of our children and families—childhood obesity. Our goal is to reverse the childhood obesity epidemic by 2015.
Communicating with Patients
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In Getting Older Patients to Exercise, Study Finds that Rx is Empathy
April 1, 2007 | Program Result
Researchers at the University of Illinois at Chicago School of Public Health examined communication between health care practitioners and their older adult patients on physical activity.
Clinicians Deliver Brief Messages to Prevent Childhood Obesity in Maine Pilot Program
September 1, 2006 | Program Result
MEM Associates worked with subcontractors to design and pilot test a program - called the Maine Obesity Primary Prevention Project - aimed at preventing obesity among pregnant women and children under age 5.
Soap-Opera-Style Spanish-Language Video Aims to Help Hispanics Prevent or Manage Diabetes
December 1, 2005 | Program Result
The University of Massachusetts Medical School created a videotaped soap-opera-style drama for use in interventions designed to increase physical activity and improve diets among low-literate and illiterate Hispanic individuals.