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Linking Economic Growth to Policies to Prevent Childhood Obesity Webinar Presentations
On Wednesday, January 11, 2012, Leadership for Healthy Communities hosted a webinar titled, Making the Connection: Linking Economic Growth to Policies to Prevent Childhood Obesity. This webinar highlighted the important links between economic growth and public health and explored ways to implement policies that improve both.
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Filename: CommoditiesSchoolMeals-PolicyHighlight-RWJF-2008.pdf (http://cfpa.net/ChildNutrition/ChildNutrition_ExternalPublications/CommoditiesSchoolMeals-PolicyHighlight-RWJF-2008.pdf)
Target Audience: Grantees, Policy-makers, Policy Influencers, Private Sector and School Administrators
Filename: preventing_preschool_obesity_legisbrief.pdf (images/stories/preventing_preschool_obesity_legisbrief.pdf)
Target Audience: Grantees, Policy-makers, Policy Influencers, Private Sector and School Administrators
Filename: farmers_markets_legisbrief.pdf (images/stories/farmers_markets_legisbrief.pdf)
Leadership for Healthy Communities (LHC), a national program of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF), has released its Program Evaluation ...
Leadership for Healthy Communities, a national program of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, has released a new tool to help ...
Developed by the Alliance for a Healthier Generation, the Healthy Schools Program Framework is a toolkit that provides specific criteria ...
Developed by Leadership for Healthy Communities, Obesity Prevention on a Budget: Low and No Cost Policy Options to Increase Healthy ...
Adult obesity rates climbed in 16 states during the past year and now exceed 30 percent in 12 states, according ...
Developed by the New York City Department of Design and Construction, Active Design Guidelines provides architects and urban designers with ...
Developed by Bridging the Gap, School Policies and Practices to Improve Health and Prevent Obesity: National Secondary School Survey ...
2011 Childhood Obesity Summit
Click here for more information about the 2011 Childhood
Obesity Prevention Summit.