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September 1, 2009 | Journal Article
When measurements are taken carefully and compared with appropriate growth charts and recommended cutoffs, body mass index (BMI) provides an excellent indicator of overweight and obesity that is sufficient for most clinical, screening and surveillance purposes.
September 1, 2009 | Journal Article
There is limited evidence on the value of individually directed help for children with higher body mass indexes (BMIs) as a national policy, but national surveillance systems are badly needed to allow a better focus on the development of both public health and individual treatment policies.
September 1, 2009 | Journal Article
This review focuses on the relation of BMI to body fatness and health risks, particularly on the ability of BMI for age 95th Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) percentile to identify children who have excess body fatness.
September 1, 2009 | Journal Article
In January 2008, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) convened a forum of researchers and practitioners working on the issue of childhood obesity to discuss the issues related to surveillance, screening and reporting of children's BMI. The articles contained in this supplement to Pediatrics address the issues in greater detail.
June 6, 2012 | Human Capital Blog Post
With my colleagues at Johns Hopkins University, I fielded a survey to shed some light on what PCPs thought about the recommendations. In the setting of changing recommendations, we wanted to understand whether PCPs believed the recommendations were ...
September 1, 2009 | Journal Article
Through a groundbreaking legislative mandate that requires body mass index (BMI) assessments in public schools, Arkansas has achieved both enhanced awareness among parents and their children and increased engagement by school, clinical, public health and community leaders in response to the epidemic.
September 1, 2009 | Journal Article
Definitions of overweight and obesity are based on percentile cutoff points. This article explores both strengths and limitations of body mass index (BMI) for this use.
April 1, 2011 | Book
This policy paper is from a series published by the National Bureau of Economic Research on obesity in the United States. The authors examined the relationship between children's weight and fast food and fruit and vegetable prices, and children's weight and availability of fast-food restaurants, full-service restaurants, supermarkets, grocery stores and convenience stores.
November 1, 2001 | Program Result Report
The National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders, Bethesda, Md., convened a panel to recommend ways to promote universal hearing screening programs for newborns.
October 1, 2005 | Program Result Report
The University of Michigan Institute for Social Research conducted a national survey on Americans' knowledge, attitudes, values and behavior regarding genetic testing and compared results to public opinion surveys from 1990.