YMCA's Pioneering Healthier Communities
November 5, 2012 | Program Result
A Progress Report: Combating childhood obesity through local and state policy change.
Obesity Policy
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GET A LIFE! Combats Childhood Obesity in the Mississippi Delta
August 25, 2011 | Program Result
Community Foundation of Northwest Mississippi created and implemented Get a Life!, an initiative to combat childhood obesity by improving access to nutritious food and increasing opportunities for safe physical activities for children in the region.
Active Living - Past, Present, and Future
December 1, 2009 | Commentary
This commentary argues that a multidisciplinary approach is an essential ingredient for achieving community change and vitality. Because active living is not a central issue of any one discipline, public health must influence other disciplines to integrate active living within the context of their respective missions.
Action Strategies Toolkit
February 11, 2011 | Toolkit
Leadership for Healthy Communities, a national program of the RWJF, was created to support local and state leaders nationwide in their efforts to promote healthy, active communities and access to affordable healthy foods. The strategies in this toolkit include promising, evidence-based practices that advance these goals and build upon the work in which policy-makers are already engaged.
What is Needed to Reverse the Trends in Childhood Obesity?
December 1, 2008 | Journal Article
The Society of Behavioral Medicine identified childhood obesity as a special focus of its 2007 annual meeting in Washington D.C. The meeting and its activities had a general goal of identifying the causes of obesity from a social and ecological perspective.
Physical Environmental Correlates of Childhood Obesity
March 6, 2009 | Journal Article
This article provides a systematic review of the literature on the relationship between environmental and community factors and childhood obesity. While these factors are thought to contribute to childhood obesity, the nature of the relationship is not well understood.
Creating Healthy Food and Eating Environments: Policy and Environmental Approaches
June 25, 2009 | Story
Childhood Obesity Research
Action Strategies Toolkit
May 1, 2009 | Toolkit
A guide for local and state leaders working to create healthy communities and prevent childhood obesity.
Uneven Playing Field--Effective Strategies to Address Health Inequity Through Active Living Research
February 1, 2013 | Journal Article
Combining efforts like the one between NAACP and Active Living Research will help fight the battle against childhood obesity more effectively.
Promoting Healthy Communities and Preventing Childhood Obesity
February 1, 2010 | Report
2009 cited as banner year for legislative action on healthy food, physical activity and community design measures.