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American Public Health Association
133rd Annual Meeting & Exposition
December 10-14, 2005
Philadelphia, PA
 APHA 2005
 
Session: State and Local Initiatives to Promote Healthy Lives
4128.0: Tuesday, December 13, 2005: 12:30 PM-2:00 PM
Oral
State and Local Initiatives to Promote Healthy Lives
Individual-level interventions to promote fruit and vegetable intake, improve diet and physical activity and decrease obesity have not shown much success. Statewide initiatives, aimed at community-level change, build from multi-disciplinary perspectives. Through legislative approaches, consensus building, and marketing campaigns, statewide initiative discussed during this session will demonstrate incremental successes and outline approaches that can be utilized by other states.
Learning Objectives: 1. At the completion of the session, participants will be able to describe key policy considerations in creating statewide initiatives to promote healthy lives 2. At the completion of the session, participants will be able to describe statewide initiatives to promote fruit and vegetable intake
Moderator(s):Noel Chavez, PhD, RD
12:30 PMWashington state plan for physical activity and nutrition: Measures of success
Marilyn H. Sitaker, MPH, Donna B. Johnson, RD, PhD
12:47 PMIllinois Childhood Obesity Prevention Consensus Agenda: Promoting comprehensive legislative approaches to childhood obesity  [ Recorded presentation ]
Matt Longjohn, MD, MPH
1:04 PMStatewide Campaign Raises Fruit and Vegetable Consumption in Low-Income Adults  [ Recorded presentation ]
Susan B. Foerster, MPH, RD, Desiree Backman, DrPH, MS, D. Ginsburg, MPH, Sharon Sugerman, MS, RD, FADA, Sara N. Cook, MPH, CHES, Carole Pirruccello, MPH, RD, CLE
1:21 PMRegional collaboratives: Conduits for policy change  [ Recorded presentation ]
David Ginsburg, MPH, Matthew Marsom, Jackie Richardson, RD, MBA, Christine Dresslar Moss, Bonnie Broderick, MPH, RD, Mike Miller
1:38 PMPolicy and environmental strategies to reduce obesity: The Moses Lake case study  [ Recorded presentation ]
Donna B. Johnson, RD, PhD, Marilyn H. Sitaker, MPH, Lynne T. Smith, PhD, MPH, RD, Erica V. Lamson, James Kissee
See individual abstracts for presenting author's disclosure statement and author's information.
Organized by:Food and Nutrition
Endorsed by:Public Health Education and Health Promotion; Public Health Nursing
CE Credits:CME, Health Education (CHES), Nursing

The 133rd Annual Meeting & Exposition (December 10-14, 2005) of APHA