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American Public Health Association
133rd Annual Meeting & Exposition
December 10-14, 2005
Philadelphia, PA
APHA 2005
 
Session: Child Nutrition and Physical Activity At and Away from School
3072.3: Monday, December 12, 2005: 10:30 AM-11:30 AM
Poster
Child Nutrition and Physical Activity At and Away from School
Learning Objectives: 1. At the completion of this session, participants will be able to descibe a number of initiatives and interventions aimed to improve nutrition and physical activity among children.
Organizer(s):Barbara A. Laraia, PhD, MPH, RD
Board 1Disconnecting TV from Food as a Strategy to Prevent Childhood Obesity
James C. Hersey, PhD, Lucia Rojas-Smith, DrPH, Amy Jordan, PhD, Jennifer L. Horner, MSN, MPH, RN, Carrie Heitzler, MPH, Judith McDivitt, PhD
Board 2Use of the Coordinated Approach To Child Health (CATCH) program in Texas elementary schools
Cristina S. Barroso, DrPH, Deanna M. Hoelscher, PhD, RD, LD, CNS, Steven H. Kelder, PhD, MPH, Christine McCullum, PhD, RD, LD, Jerri L. Ward, MA, RD, LD, Peter Cribb, MEd
Board 3Partnering with key community stakeholders to develop school nutrition policies
Marsha Spence, MS-MPH, RD, Sonya J. Jones, PhD, Sonia Hardin, RN, Betsy Haughton, EdD, RD
Board 4Teens Reporting on Eating, Nutrition, and Diet
Alexis S. Lieberman, MD, Diana Harris, MA, Jessica Robbins, PhD
Board 5Bringing youth voices into school nutrition decisionmaking: Marin County's youth-led action research results
Margaret Libby, MSW, Jennifer Juras, PhD
Board 6Adolescents’ lunchtime practices throughout the middle school years
Amanda S. Birnbaum, PhD, MPH, Tracy R. Nichols, PhD, Baxter B. Allen, Kenneth W. Griffin, PhD, MPH, Gilbert J. Botvin, PhD
Board 7Urban rural differences in body mass index and overweight among a representative sample of Texas public school children
Steven H. Kelder, PhD, MPH, Cristina S. Barroso, MPH, Deanna M. Hoelscher, PhD, RD, LD, CNS
Board 8Nutrition and physical activity policies and practices in out-of-school programs
Josefine Wendel, MS, RD, Susan Richards, Susan Breen, MS, RN, Virginia R. Chomitz, PhD
Board 9SchoolFood Plus: Revolutionizing the New York City school nutrition environment through a collaborative approach
Kate MacKenzie, MS, RD
Board 10What’s the relationship between where children eat breakfast and overweight
Andrea L. Graves, Sonya J. Jones, Sonia Hardin, RN, Betsy Haughton, EdD, RD, Marsha Spence, MS-MPH, RD
See individual abstracts for presenting author's disclosure statement and author's information.
Organized by:Food and Nutrition
Endorsed by:Community Health Planning and Policy Development; Maternal and Child Health; Public Health Nursing

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