After completing this course, you should be able to:
- Describe the prevalence, trends, and consequences of childhood obesity
- Discuss the rationale for and process of applying an ecological approach for planning interventions to promote healthy eating and active living
- List key child and adult behaviors contributing to excessive weight gain in children
- Assess environmental factors contributing to excessive weight gain in children
- Assess and prioritize predisposing, enabling, and reinforcing factors related to excessive weight gain in children
- Discuss the rationale and approaches for building and facilitating effective collaborations for addressing nutrition issues
- Identify appropriate intervention methods and strategies for addressing priority predisposing, enabling, and reinforcing factors contributing to excessive weight gain in children
- Develop an action plan for addressing childhood obesity in your community
1 Olshansky, SJ, Passaro DJ, Hershow RC, et al. A potential decline in life expectancy in the United States in the 21st century. N Engl J Med. 2005; 352:1143.
2 Adapted from Green LW, Kreuter MW. Health Program Planning: An Educational and Ecological Approach, 4th ed. New York, NY: McGraw-Hill; 2005
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