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APHA Scientific Session and Event Listing

Susan B. Foerster, MPH, RD¹, Eduardo Sanchez, MD, MPH², Antronette Yancey, MD, MPH³, Ross C. Brownson⁴, Russell R. Pate, PhD⁵, Jeffrey P. Koplan, MD, MPH⁶, Catharyn T. Liverman, MLS⁷, and Vivica I. Kraak, MS, RD⁷. (1) California Department of Health Services, Cancer Prevention and Nutrition Section, 1616 Capitol Avenue, Suite 74.516, Sacramento, CA 95814, (916) 449-5385, SFoerste@dhs.ca.gov, (2) Institute for Health Policy, University of Texas School of Public Health, 313 E 12th St., Suite 220, Austin, TX 78701, (3) Department of Health Services, UCLA School of Public Health, Box 951772, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1772, (4) Department of Community Health and Prevention Research Center, Saint Louis University, 3545 Lafayette Avenue, St. Louis, MO 63104, (5) Department of Exercise Science, Arnold School of Public Health, University of South Carolina, 730 Devine Street, Columbia, SC 29208, (6) Woodruff Health Sciences Center, Suite 410, Emory University, 1440 Clifton Road, NE, Atlanta, GA 30322, (7) Institute of Medicine, 500 Fifth Street, NW, Washington, DC 20001

The Institute of Medicine's Committee on Progress in Preventing Childhood Obesity was charged with and will examine progress in obesity prevention for children at local, state, and national levels, discuss evaluation strategies, and recommend further action. This study follows up on the urgent recommendations from the landmark 2004 report, Preventing Childhood Obesity: Health in the Balance.

The new report will discuss evidence as to the adequacy of U.S. efforts being undertaken in multiple sectors and settings including: families and the home environment; schools; industry, including advertising; communities; and three levels of government. Committee members will present new findings and make recommendations, with special attention to ethnic, geographic, and socioeconomic disparities, an evaluation framework, and steps needed to integrate action among stakeholders and increase the public health impact.

Learning Objectives:

• * Attendees will cite examples of evaluation efforts for childhood obesity prevention undertaken by government, industry, communities, schools, health care providers, and families.
• * Attendees will identify the challenges and opportunities for evaluating such efforts in their own practice settings.

Keywords: Obesity, Child Health Promotion

Related Web page: www.iom.edu/obesity

Presenting author's disclosure statement:

Any relevant financial relationships? No