Local Government Actions to Prevent Childhood Obesity
September 1, 2009 | Issue Brief
IOM report identifies 58 promising actions for local governments to consider taking.
Preventive Care
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Four Mayors and School Superintendent Honored for Exceptional Leadership in Preventing Childhood Obesity
November 2, 2009 | Video/Story
Their approaches illustrate a wide variety of policies that can help prevent childhood obesity.
Vote & Vax: A Community-Based Strategy to Promote Adult Immunization
January 14, 2013 | Program Result
Vote & Vax increased access to influenza immunization and other preventive services for vulnerable populations through clinics provided at polling places on Election Day from 2004 though 2010.
Expanding the Ability of Practitioners and Scholars to Assess Law as a Tool to Improve Public Health
January 4, 2011 | Report
Knowledge Asset: An ongoing study examines the breadth of local public health decision-making authority and describes how local public health ordinances fill gaps in or supplement existing state and federal public health ordinances.
Documenting the Work of Healthy Kids, Healthy Communities
February 8, 2012 | Video/Presentation Material
A video series focusing on three diverse communities shows how this national program aims to reverse childhood obesity.
Landmark Program Making Progress Through Local Initiatives to Reverse Childhood Obesity
January 11, 2010 | Story/Interactive
In 50 communities across the country, the barriers that often keep children from eating healthy and being physically active are starting to come down.
Using Social Marketing to Manage Population Health Performance
September 1, 2010 | Journal Article
This article discusses pay-for-performance. It considers social marketing as a well-developed managerial paradigm that can contribute to the key components of pay-for-performance as it, in turn, contributes to improving population health.
Bridging the Gap: Research Informing Practice and Policy for Healthy Youth Behavior
National Program
To improve understanding of school, community, state, and national policies and environmental factors affecting youth diet, physical activity, obesity, and tobacco, alcohol, and drug use.
Reducing Underage Drinking Through Community and State Coalitions
National Program
Program to raise awareness and support strategies to decrease underage drinking and thus reduce alcohol-related problems among youth.
Childhood Obesity Prevention in Texas
January 1, 2009 | Report
The present report summarizes the information gathered at a workshop held February 5?6, 2009 by the Standing Committee on Childhood Obesity Prevention, run by the Institute of Medicine (IOM) and supported by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF), in Austin, Texas.