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Jones, Emily; Zuest, Luciana; Bulger, Sean; Elliott, Eloise; Cho, Kibum; Lilly, Christa – Health Education & Behavior, 2020
Background: Schools are an important setting for health promotion because they afford children and adolescents numerous opportunities to accumulate the recommended physical activity (PA) minutes and make other health-related decisions, including healthy eating. Unfortunately, there is little evidence of coordinated school-based health…
Descriptors: Intervention, Health Promotion, Rural Schools, Child Health
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O'Hara-Tompkins, Nancy; Crum, Gwen; Fincham, Hannah; Lewis, Dianna; Bowen, Elaine; Murphy, Emily – Journal of Extension, 2020
Early care and education settings are essential partners in the battle against childhood obesity. We describe an Extension-facilitated early childhood obesity prevention intervention conducted in 25 rural early care and education settings. A total of 148 policy, systems, or environmental changes were achieved, reaching approximately 450 young…
Descriptors: Child Care, Early Childhood Education, Obesity, Child Health