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Study Shows Overwhelming Parent Support for Healthier Schools Survey for the Alliance for a Healthier Generation finds most parents willing to help schools improve food offerings and increase physical activity.	News releases	10/28/2009
Poll Shows Strong Parent Support for Healthier Schools The survey signals the breadth of parents' support for changes to make schools healthier places, and their willingness to help make changes happen.	Stories and articles	10/28/2009
Friends of the Children Founder Wins Purpose Prize Duncan Campbell, founder of Friends of the Children and RWJF grantee, was awarded a 2009 Purpose Prize, which honors social entrepreneurs over 60 who are using their experience and passion to take on society's biggest challenges.	News releases	10/26/2009
Closing the Schools: Lessons From the 1918-19 U.S. Influenza Pandemic Ninety-one years later, the evidence shows that there are positive and negative ways to do it. Published In: Health Affairs (Web Exclusive)	Journal articles	09/29/2009
New Evidence Strengthens Case for Increasing School-based Physical Activity Kids who are active and fit tend to perform better in the classroom.	Issue and policy briefs, Reports	09/25/2009
School Physical Activity Environment Related to Student Obesity and Activity (from Adolescent Obesity: Towards Evidence-Based Policy and Environment Solutions) The Institute of Medicine recommends that children expend 50 percent of their daily energy while in school. This study investigated associations between physical education requirements, physical activity, and body weight using a nationally representative sample of... Published In: Journal of Adolescent Health (Supplement)	Journal articles	09/04/2009
The Role of Culture in the Context of School-Based BMI Screening (from Issues and Implications of Screening, Surveillance, and Reporting of Children's BMI (Introduction)) Multiple studies have shown that parents of overweight or obese children often fail to correctly perceive their children as overweight. In this article, possible reasons for, and implications of, this misperception of child weight... Published In: Pediatrics (Supplement)	Journal articles	09/01/2009
Surveillance, Screening, and Reporting Children's BMI in a School-Based Setting (from Issues and Implications of Screening, Surveillance, and Reporting of Children's BMI (Introduction)) Federal and state government officials who seek to determine the scope of the childhood and adolescent obesity problem are using a spectrum of tools that include reporting, screening and surveillance initiatives. Published In: Pediatrics (Supplement)	Journal articles	09/01/2009
Arkansas' Experience: Statewide Surveillance and Parental Information on the Child Obesity Epidemic (from Issues and Implications of Screening, Surveillance, and Reporting of Children's BMI (Introduction)) 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,... Published In: Pediatrics (Supplement)	Journal articles	09/01/2009
Assessing BMI in West Virginia Schools (from Issues and Implications of Screening, Surveillance, and Reporting of Children's BMI (Introduction)) The childhood obesity research discussed in this article was conducted over the past 10 years through four projects in West Virginia that range from a school-based cardiovascular risk screening program to an evaluation of state... Published In: Pediatrics (Supplement)	Journal articles	09/01/2009

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