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October 1, 2000 | Program Result
Starting in January 1997, Kathleen Hall Jamieson, Ph.D. at the Annenberg School for Communication, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, conducted research on educational television programming for children and developed a pilot program based on that research.
May 15, 2012 | Report
This report summarizes the results of several studies comprising Year Three of an evaluation project assessing the impact of the Mississippi Healthy Students Act on childhood obesity. The evaluation measures trends in childhood obesity rates and ass ...
October 12, 2011 | Program Result
The Perelman School of Medicine at The University of Pennsylvania integrated a senior statistician into the research team at the Center for Weight and Eating Disorders, to improve quality, coordination and productivity across multiple studies of childhood obesity.
February 1, 2013 | Journal Article
Sixteen major food-manufacturing companies, members of the Healthy Weight Commitment Foundation, have pledged to collectively remove 1.5 trillion calories a year from the marketplace by the end of 2015.
November 14, 2003 | Program Result
The Oregon Department of Human Services, Health Division created model school-based health centers and solidified fiscal and political support for the centers.
April 1, 2012 | Journal Article
This paper argues that a metric for linking obesity prevalence targets to energy-balancing interventions at the population level is missing. The authors provide a framework for estimating the sizes of daily per capita energy gap reductions needed to reach prevalence targets by 2020.
April 1, 2004 | Journal Article
Parents of children with asthma need to learn a great deal about the disorder in order to manage it successfully. The National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute has recommended that all members of a pediatric health care team become involved in the e ...
January 1, 2004 | Book
In 1998, the Foundation's Injury Free Coalition for Kids initiative began to be replicated in other sites around the country. The author describes the expansion of the program and takes a closer look at San Diego, Miami and Chicago.
February 1, 2003 | Program Result
The Children's Health Environmental Coalition, Princeton, N.J., created a conceptual prototype design for a Web-based virtual house, called HealtheHouse, to inform parents about environmental health risks to their children in the home.
February 1, 2002 | Program Result
The Carter Center in Atlanta held its Fourteenth Annual Rosalynn Carter Symposium on Mental Health Policy, "Promoting Positive and Healthy Behaviors in Children," on November 18–19, 1998, in Atlanta, Ga.