Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Committee on Progress in Preventing Childhood Obesity

Titel

Progress in Preventing Childhood Obesity: How Do We Measure Up?

Ist Teil von

• Institute of Medicine of the National Academies, 2006, 494 pp, 2006, p.494p-494p

Erscheinungsjahr

2006

Quelle

PAIS Index

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Emphasizes a call to action for key stakeholders and sectors to lead and commit to childhood obesity prevention, evaluate all policies and programs, monitor their progress, and widely disseminate promising practices. Addressing the childhood obesity epidemic is a collective responsibility involving multiple stakeholders and different sectors -- including the federal government, state and local governments, communities, schools, industry, media, and families. Appendixes, References.