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PAPERBACK price:$29.00 add to cart Rights & Permissions Free PDF Access Free Resources PDF SUMMARY PDF Report Brief Display this book on your site! Related Titles Progress in Preventing Childhood Obesity: How Do We Measure Up? Accelerating Progress in Obesity Prevention: Solving the Weight of the Nation Other Related Titles Local Government Actions to Prevent Childhood Obesity (2009) Food and Nutrition Board (FNB) Board on Children, Youth and Families (BOCYF) Board on Population Health and Public Health Practice (BPH) Citation Manager Export the bibliographic data for this book in your chosen format Web Search Builder Use this book's key terms to search within this book, across our collection, or across the Web. Skim This Chapter Skim this chapter and use this chapter's key terms to search within this book. Reference Finder Paste in your own text to find books that relate to your topic. Citation Manager . "Appendix E: Statement of Task." Local Government Actions to Prevent Childhood Obesity. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press, 2009. Please select a format: Page 111   E-mail Share on facebook Facebook Share on delicious Delicious Share on stumbleupon Stumble Share on twitter Twitter More Sharing ServicesMore The following HTML text is provided to enhance online readability. Many aspects of typography translate only awkwardly to HTML. Please use the page image as the authoritative form to ensure accuracy. E Statement of Task An ad hoc committee of the Institute of Medicine will examine evidence on childhood obesity prevention efforts by local government entities, with a focus on identifying promising practices, and will develop a set of recommended practices for disseminating to local governments broadly. The audience includes mayors; county, city, or township commissioners or other officials; local health departments; local boards of health; city and transportation planners; and other relevant local commissions and public entities. This study will draw from and build on relevant Institute of Medicine (IOM) reports, especially Preventing Childhood Obesity: Health in the Balance and Progress in Preventing Childhood Obesity: How Do We Measure Up?, as well as secondary sources and seminal primary sources. In carrying out its task the committee will consider the range of childhood obesity prevention efforts that have been considered or implemented by local governments and those that have been evaluated, and from that information will compile a list of promising practices in childhood obesity prevention, noting promising strategies for addressing disparities and disproportionately affected children and youth, identifying other public health benefits, and summarizing successful strategies for sustained funding and financing of obesity prevention initiatives. The committee will develop a succinct report that summarizes the range of local government efforts; identifies and describes rationale for selected promising practices; discusses other relevant public health benefits of these promising practices; and outlines a set of recommendations on priority immediate actions and practices for local governments. As relevant to the task, state government actions may also be considered. Page 111 Front Matter (R1-R12) Summary (1-12) 1 Introduction (13-24) 2 Acting Locally (25-44) 3 Creating Equal Opportunities for Healthy Weight (45-48) 4 Actions for Healthy Eating (49-70) 5 Actions for Increasing Physical Activity (71-88) Appendix A: Glossary (89-94) Appendix B: Toolkits and Related Resources (95-98) Appendix C: Methodology (99-102) Appendix D: Assessing the Evidence for Childhood Obesity Prevention Action Steps (103-110) Appendix E: Statement of Task (111-112) Appendix F: Open Session (113-114) Appendix G: Biographical Sketches (115-126)

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Local Government Actions to Prevent Childhood Obesity E Statement of Task An ad hoc committee of the Institute of Medicine will examine evidence on childhood obesity prevention efforts by local government entities, with a focus on identifying promising practices, and will develop a set of recommended practices for disseminating to local governments broadly. The audience includes mayors; county, city, or township commissioners or other officials; local health departments; local boards of health; city and transportation planners; and other relevant local commissions and public entities. This study will draw from and build on relevant Institute of Medicine (IOM) reports, especially Preventing Childhood Obesity: Health in the Balance and Progress in Preventing Childhood Obesity: How Do We Measure Up?, as well as secondary sources and seminal primary sources. In carrying out its task the committee will consider the range of childhood obesity prevention efforts that have been considered or implemented by local governments and those that have been evaluated, and from that information will compile a list of promising practices in childhood obesity prevention, noting promising strategies for addressing disparities and disproportionately affected children and youth, identifying other public health benefits, and summarizing successful strategies for sustained funding and financing of obesity prevention initiatives. The committee will develop a succinct report that summarizes the range of local government efforts; identifies and describes rationale for selected promising practices; discusses other relevant public health benefits of these promising practices; and outlines a set of recommendations on priority immediate actions and practices for local governments. As relevant to the task, state government actions may also be considered.

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