Using Media to Fight Obesity
Efforts to market foods of minimal nutritional value are believed to have significantly exacerbated the obesity epidemic. This Issue Focus describes research regarding anti-obesity media messaging and provides examples of campaigns that are providing reliable, healthful information to counteract such marketing.
Start Smart: Healthy Weight in Early Childhood
Start Smart: Healthy Weight in Early Childhood was held on October 16, 2012 in Washington, D.C.
Investing in Adolescent-Centered Health Care to Address Risk Behaviors
On this call, Harriette Fox and Peggy McManus of The National Alliance to Advance Adolescent Health reviewed what is important to adolescents when it comes to their primary and behavioral health care, innovative models that address multiple risk behaviors, and priority areas for related research.
50+ and Hungry in America: Funders’ Briefing Call
This call featured short overviews of the AARP Foundation’s research into older adult hunger, its work helping older adults enroll in benefit programs like the Federal Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, and its grantmaking/funding programs.
From Awareness to Action: Building Greater Public Will for HEAL
On this call Jennifer Messenger Heilbronner of the Metropolitan Group and Tracy Faigin Boyle of LiveWell Colorado discussed social marketing and public will building for HEAL.
Food and Health for All: Health Equity for Agricultural Farmworkers
Farmworkers—the hands that grow and supply so much of our daily food—pay a high price with their health and often their lives to provide our nourishment. Living below the U.S. federal poverty level, those who feed our nation are a young workforce facing economic, educational, health, and linguistic challenges.
Visualizing The Farm Bill
On this webinar, we explored critical public health connections in the Farm Bill with the help of the Visualizer tool and discussed the growing role of food and tech efforts to communicate information and effect change.
Addressing Obesity: Foundation Opportunities to Leverage The Weight of the Nation
This webinar discussed the Weight of the Nation project, which is designed to accelerate efforts to prevent and eliminate obesity across the United States.
2012 Annual Meeting on Health Philanthropy
2012 Annual Meeting on Health Philanthropy was held from March 7-9, 2012 in Baltimore, Maryland.
Creating Healthier Communities to Reverse Childhood Obesity
Learn how the YMCA’s Healthier Communities Initiatives, which include Pioneering Healthier Communities, Action Communities for Health, Innovation, & Environmental Change, and Statewide Pioneering Healthier Communities, are helping to address the obesity epidemic.
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