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Video
The Weight of the Nation Documentary is a four-part documentary series, each featuring case studies, interviews with the nation’s leading experts, and individuals and their families struggling with obesity.
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Publications
Center for Disease Control, 2011This report highlights selected behaviors, environments, and policies that affect childhood obesity through support of healthy eating. These indicators represent opportunities for action.
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rootcause.orgThis report helps funders and donors understand the issue of childhood obesity, specifically focusing on educational component of fostering sustainable healthy habits.
Food Research and Action Center, December 2011This report analyzes how the struggle by households to obtain affordable healthy food presents itself by race, income, health status, and in different parts of the country.
The Convergence Partnership, 2010This report outlines a range of organizational practices and public policies being considered to improve quality and quantity of physical activity among our nation’s children and youth.
Bipartisan Policy Center, Nutrition and Physical Activity Initiative, June 2012This report “calls on the public and private sectors to collaborate in creating healthy families, schools, workplaces and communities, focusing on existing best practices that can be implemented on a large scale to broaden their impact and help scale back obesity in the U.S.“
The Convergence Partnership, 2008This report offers a comprehensive and cross-cutting review of policy, strategy, and program recommendations to realize the vision of healthy people in healthy places.
The Convergence Partnership, 2008This report examines opportunities to change the food system to benefit our physical, economic, social, and environmental health.
The Convergence Partnership, 2008This report outlines a range of organizational practices and public policies being considered to improve the built environment in support of This document serves as a resource to identify target policies and opportunities towards building healthy environments.
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Guides
This resource guide provides a listing of programs, organizations, tools and presentations intended to support increasing active living via community design.
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The Active Living Storybank is a searchable database of projects, programs and initiatives around the country promoting health through changes in the built environment.
Similar to the Food Guidance System, MyPlate, but specific to beverages.
A guide with multiple strategies for increasing produce consumption for community leaders,
A guide with multiple strategies for increasing physical activity for community leaders.
Resources to keep children active and healthy.
This resource guide provides a listing of programs, organizations, tools and presentations intended to support increasing healthy eating via community design.
The current Food Guidance System designed to promote the Dietary Guidelines for Americans, which has
A resource describing the “types and amounts of physical activity that offer substantial health benefits to Americans”.
A guide for improving school foods and beverages that includes model materials and policies and case studies.
A self-assessment and planning guide for schools to use “to improve their health and safety policies and programs”, including health education, physical education and other physical activity programs, and nutrition services.
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Mapping Tools
Community Commons supports collaboration through data, maps and stories
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Food Desert Locator presents a spatial overview of food access indicators for low-income and other census tracts using different measures of supermarket accessibility.
This resource guide provides a list of free mapping tools to show walkability, obesity’s growth over time, social inequity, crime hotspots or personal history.
This tool provides a spatial overview of a community’s ability to access healthy food.
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Portals
Portal provides access to resources designed to improve healthy food access in communities, build local economies, and enhance public health.
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The Hub connects out-of-school-time program staff and volunteers with educational materials, products, and services to help them implement programs that promote healthy environments where children live, learn, and play.
Together Counts provides access to resources for schools, families and communities o inspire active and healthy living.
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Advocacy resources
This advocacy resource guide offers several tools and instruments that help organizations, communities and individuals aid enhancing citizen advocacy.
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This resource from Active Living Research includes more than 450 papers that study the relationship of environment and policy with physical activity and obesity.
A website with many model policies, fact sheets, and toolkits for policy-makers to use to address some of the causes of childhood obesity.
The Partnership aims to strengthen and accelerate multi-field, equity-focused efforts among practitioners, policy makers, funders, and advocates and create environments that support healthy eating and active living.
Information and resources on a variety of issues influencing health, including the farm bill, and food accessibility.
Links to research on environmental and policy strategies to promote healthy eating among children
This advocacy manual focuses on strategies to improve the food environment, the built environment, and school-based policies.
Public policy research focusing on food and nutrition.
Resources on a broad approach to health including land use, economic development, and built environment.
This document outlines the policy priorities of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Center to Prevent Childhood Obesity.
A network funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation aimed at preventing obesity among Latino children.
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