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California Adults Increase Fruit and Vegetable Consumption from 1997-2007
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Sugerman, Sharon; Foerster, Susan B.; Gregson, Jennifer; Linares, Amanda; Hudes, Mark – Journal of Nutrition Education and Behavior, 2011
Objective: To determine whether fruit and vegetable consumption among California adults significantly increased from 1997-2007. Design: Biennial telephone surveillance surveys of California adults' dietary practices. Participants: California adults (n = 9,105 total all 6 surveys). Intervention: Surveillance data reporting. Main Outcome Measures:…
Descriptors: Eating Habits, Adults, Behavior Change, State Programs
Community Health Centers: A Promising Venue for Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program Education in the Central Valley
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MkNelly, Barbara; Nishio, Stephanie; Peshek, Cynthia; Oppen, Michelle – Journal of Nutrition Education and Behavior, 2011
Health care providers could help achieve the necessary shift to healthful eating and active living; however, lack of coverage or reimbursement, lack of time, and limited information about appropriate interventions are some of the documented barriers. This report highlights the potential for Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program Education…
Descriptors: Nutrition, Demonstration Programs, Nutrition Instruction, Federal Programs
Building Evaluation Capacity in Local Programs for Multisite Nutrition Education Interventions
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Fourney, Andrew; Gregson, Jennifer; Sugerman, Sharon; Bellow, Andrew – Journal of Nutrition Education and Behavior, 2011
From 2004-2008, capacity to conduct program evaluation was built among the "Network for a Healthy California's" 48 largest local partners. Capacity building was done within a framework of Empowerment Evaluation and Utility-Focused evaluation. Tools included: a Scope of Work template, a handbook, a compendium of surveys, an evaluation…
Descriptors: Program Evaluation, Nutrition, Technical Assistance, Nutrition Instruction
Child Care Health Connections: A Health and Safety Newsletter for California Child Care Professionals. Volume 23, Number 4, July-August 2010
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Zamani, A. Rahman, Ed.; Rose, Bobbie, Ed.; Calder, Judy, Ed.; Garakani, Tahereh, Ed.; Leonard, Victoria, Ed. – California Childcare Health Program, 2010
"Child Care Health Connections" is a bimonthly newsletter published by the California Childcare Health Program (CCHP), a community-based program of the University of California, San Francisco School of Nursing, Department of Family Health Care Nursing. The goals of the newsletter are to promote and support a healthy and safe environment…
Descriptors: Eating Habits, Obesity, Safety, Health Programs
Using an Opinion Poll to Build an Obesity-Prevention Social Marketing Campaign for Low-Income Asian and Hispanic Immigrants: Report of Findings
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Sugerman, Sharon; Backman, Desiree; Foerster, Susan B.; Ghirardelli, Alyssa; Linares, Amanda; Fong, Amy – Journal of Nutrition Education and Behavior, 2011
Objective: To gain opinions from low-income, limited-English-speaking Hispanic and Asian immigrants for formative research in a social marketing campaign. Design: Nineteen questions on obesity prevention-related topics were embedded into a larger random digit-dial survey investigating the effects of language and cultural barriers on health care…
Descriptors: Obesity, Physical Activities, Opinions, Health Insurance
Child Care Health Connections: A Health and Safety Newsletter for California Child Care Professionals. Volume 22, Number 4, July-August 2009
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Zamani, A. Rahman, Ed.; Rose, Bobbie, Ed.; Calder, Judy, Ed.; Garakani, Tahereh, Ed.; Leonard, Victoria, Ed. – California Childcare Health Program, 2009
"Child Care Health Connections" is a bimonthly newsletter published by the California Childcare Health Program (CCHP), a community-based program of the University of California, San Francisco School of Nursing, Department of Family Health Care Nursing. The goals of the newsletter are to promote and support a healthy and safe environment for all…
Descriptors: Child Safety, Health Programs, Public Health, Food Standards
Milk Matters: African Americans Are Not Getting Enough Calcium, One of Two Emerging Health Issues to Be Concerned About, Researcher Says
Hawkins, B. Denise – Black Issues in Higher Education, 2005
Diets high in fat and calories and low in calcium, may not only be putting African-American children at risk for obesity, but can make them prone to a common bone disease associated with adults at mid-life. If children and adolescents don't receive adequate amounts of calcium when their bones are still forming, the chances of them getting…
Descriptors: African Americans, Health Programs, Public Health, Obesity
Nutrition and Health with an Evaluation on Nutritional Surveillance in the United States.
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Congress of the U.S., Washington, DC. Senate Select Committee on Nutrition and Human Needs. – 1975
Focusing on America's self-knowledge about its nutritional health, this report deals with the availability of nutrition evaluation and counseling to individuals and the adequacy of the national nutrition monitoring system. Bureaucratic and political problems of applying nutritional health considerations to food policy are also examined. Nutrition…
Descriptors: Allied Health Occupations Education, Eating Habits, Foods Instruction, Government Role