The CWH will evaluate the “Network for a Healthy California – Children’s Power Play! Campaign,” an intervention aimed at improving fruit and vegetable intake, physical activity, selected psychosocial and environmental factors among fourth- and fifth-grade children attending low resource public schools in San Diego and Imperial counties in the 2011-2012 school year.
Research has shown that increasing fruit and vegetables alone will not decrease rates of obesity without a significant parallel decrease in calories from high sugar/high fat snack foods and beverages.
The CWH will assist California Food Policy Advocates (CFPA) with a study to evaluate the impact of a newly passed California law, SB2084 (effective date: January 1, 2012), which mandates beverage standards in licensed childcare centers and family day care homes.
“Evaluation of the Impact of Energy Balance 4 Kids“ (EB4K) is a comprehensive, innovative, integrated, school-based energy balance program designed to improve students’ health knowledge, attitudes, and nutrition and physical activity behaviors.
The CWH developed an evaluation plan for the Statewide California Children’s PowerPlay! Campaign, an intervention aimed at improving fruit and vegetable intake, physical activity, psychosocial and environmental factors among fourth- and fifth-grade children attending low resource public schools.
The CWH will collaborate on 3 Special Projects as part of Network for a Healthy California’s work to expand and strengthen selected priority initiatives and programs focused on the Network target populations.
•Healthy Foods, Beverages and Physical Activity Intervention and Evaluation Plan
To understand the early determinants of child obesity in order to design appropriate and effective prevention strategies that will improve the health of young children, the Center will collaborate with Westat, UCLA researchers and other members of the research team in the development and implementation of the "WIC Infant and Toddler Feeding Practices Study" (WIC ITFPS-2) evaluation.
The CWH will conduct a formative and outcome evaluation of “Healthy Options, Healthy Meals Evaluation”, a collaboration among MAZON, Kaiser Permanente, and food banks in KP regions to increase access to nutritious food reaching low-income families through deliberate systemic change achieved by food banks.
How do maternal early life experiences and the maternal weight before, during and after pregnancy, contribute, individually and jointly, to the development of maternal and child obesity?
The CWH will assist California Food Policy Advocates (CFPA) with the study "Policy Improvement to Nutrition in Licensed Child Care", and examine policy solutions for improving the quality of nutrition in licensed child care centers and day care homes.
