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Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Guide to Community Preventive Services
This guide for policy-makers features programs and policy interventions that have been proven effective in a variety of areas, including nutrition, obesity and physical activity.
www.thecommunityguide.org/index.html
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Recommended Community Strategies and Measurements to Prevent Obesity in the United States: Implementation and Measurement Guide
This report identifies 24 recommendations that can be implemented at the community level and suggested means of measuring progress. The report’s recommendations apply to both children and adults, and include actions targeting the school environment.
www.cdc.gov/obesity/downloads/community_strategies_guide.pdf
Convergence Partnership, Promising Strategies for Creating Healthy Eating and Active Living Environments
This report offers a comprehensive and cross-cutting review of policy strategies and program recommendations to promote environments conducive to healthy eating and active living.
www.convergencepartnership.org/atf/cf/%7B245A9B44-6DED-4ABD-A392-AE583809E350%7D/CP_Promising%20Strategies_printed.pdf
Institute of Medicine, Local Government Actions to Prevent Childhood Obesity
This report identifies 58 action steps for local government leaders, with 12 described as most promising. The IOM report is specifically focused on strategies likely to directly affect children and that take place outside of the school day. It also contains examples of policies and programs that local governments have successfully adopted and implemented.
http://www.iom.edu/Reports/2009/Local-Government-Actions-to-Prevent-Childhood-Obesity.aspx
Institute of Medicine, Perspectives from United Kingdom and United States Policy Makers on Obesity Prevention. Workshop Summary
This 2010 report summarizes the findings of an IOM workshop, which brought together policy-makers from the U.K. and U.S. to discuss the challenges of and promising approaches to childhood obesity prevention.
www.iom.edu/Reports/2010/Perspectives-from-United-Kingdom-and-United-States-Policy-Makers-on-Obesity-Prevention.aspx
Institute of Medicine, Preventing Childhood Obesity: Health in the Balance
This report, which was created in 2004 in response to a request from Congress for a prevention-oriented action plan to tackle the alarming rise in childhood obesity, provides a broad-based examination of the nature, extent and consequences of obesity in U.S. children and youth, including the social, environmental and dietary factors responsible for its increased prevalence.
http://www.iom.edu/Reports/2004/Preventing-Childhood-Obesity-Health-in-the-Balance.aspx
Institute of Medicine, Progress in Preventing Childhood Obesity: How Do We Measure Up?
This 2006 report examines the progress made by obesity prevention initiatives in the United States since the release of the report Preventing Childhood Obesity: Health in the Balance two years earlier.
www.iom.edu/Reports/2006/Progress-in-Preventing-Childhood-Obesity--How-Do-We-Measure-Up.aspx
Let’s Move
The Let’s Move! campaign, started by First Lady Michelle Obama, combats the epidemic of childhood obesity through a comprehensive approach that engages every sector impacting the health of children and provides schools, families and communities simple tools to help kids be more active, eat better, and get healthy. Let’s Move Cities and Towns encourages local elected officials to fight childhood obesity by taking action to help parents make healthy family choices, create healthy schools, provide access to healthy and affordable food and promote physical activity.
http://www.letsmove.gov/
http://www.letsmove.gov/mayors-local-officials
National Collaborative on Childhood Obesity Research (NCCOR), Catalogue of Surveillance Systems
NCCOR’s Catalogue of Surveillance Systems describes in detail existing surveillance systems that collect data related to childhood obesity. It provides one-stop access to more than 75 surveys and other data sets, allowing users to search and select surveys that provide a wealth of data at the national, state, and local levels on a range of variables, including school policies and health outcomes, as well as eating and exercise behaviors. Health officials at the city and state level also can find data related to their programs.
www.nccor.org/css
National Conference of State Legislatures, Promoting Healthy Communities and Reducing Childhood Obesity: Legislative Options
This report summarizes state legislation proposed and passed during 2007 and 2008 related to healthy eating, physical activity, healthy community design and access to healthy food, divided into 17 topic areas. A report summarizing the policy approaches enacted in 2009 is also available.
www.ncsl.org/default.aspx?tabid=18135
www.ncsl.org/default.aspx?tabid=19776
National Governors Association, Shaping a Healthier Generation: Successful State Strategies to Prevent Childhood Obesity
This report offers direction to governors and other policy-makers attempting to craft children’s health policies that can help prevent obesity and advance the well-being of families in the child care, educational, community and health care settings. http://www.nga.org/files/live/sites/NGA/files/pdf/0909HEALTHIERGENERATION.PDF
National League of Cities, the Institute for Youth, Education, and Families, and the American Association of School Administrators, Community Wellness: Comprehensive City-School Strategies to Reduce Childhood Obesity
This report details the experiences of six cities as they developed and implemented local wellness strategies that emphasized policy change and collaboration.
www.aasa.org/uploadedFiles/Childrens_Programs/_files/CommunityWellness%20Report%20FINAL.pdf
National League of Cities, Combating Childhood Obesity Action Kit for Municipal Leaders
This toolkit provides mayors and city council members with policy options for addressing childhood obesity at the city level and includes relevant facts and successful examples.
www.leadershipforhealthycommunities.org/images/stories/iyefchildhoodobesityactionkit.pdf
Trust for America’s Health and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, F as in Fat: How Obesity Threatens America’s Future 2010
The most recent edition of this annual report provides an extensive overview of federal and state-by-state obesity trends, policies and statistics, as well as recommendations for policy action at all levels.
http://healthyamericans.org/reports/obesity2010
United States Conference of Mayors, Mayors’ Guide to Fighting Childhood Obesity
This guide provides suggested action steps that mayors and other local government leaders can take to address the childhood obesity epidemic in their communities in three areas: the community food environment, the physical environment, and the school and out-of-school environment.
www.usmayors.org/chhs/healthycities/documents/guide-200908.pdf
YMCA, Community Healthy Living Index
This index is a set of five community assessment tools that measure opportunities for physical activity and healthy eating in areas that impact an individual’s daily life. These tools help facilitate discussion about how to improve the community environment to increase opportunities for healthy living.
www.usmayors.org/chhs/healthycities/documents/guide-200908.pdf
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