NPAC Resources
Active Living
- Active Transportation: Making the Link from Transportation to Physical Activity and Obesity
- Designing for Active Transportation
- A healthy city is an active city: a physical activity planning guide
- Promising Strategies for Creating Healthy Eating and Active Living Environments
- Walking and Biking to School, Physical Activity and Health Outcomes
Advocacy
- Childhood Task Force Summary of Recommendations
- Recommended Community Strategies and Measurements to Prevent Obesity in the United States: Implementation and Measurement Guide
- Recommended Community Strategies and Measurements to Prevent Obesity in the United States
- County Health Rankings - 2010 Hawaii
- SOLVING THE PROBLEM OF CHILDHOOD OBESITY WITHIN A GENERATION - White House Task Force on Childhood Obesity Report to the President (May 2010)
- Healthy People, Healthy Places: How to Implement Environmental and Policy Change Strategies - Kaiser Permanente
- OBESITY PREVENTION POLICIES FOR MIDDLE AND HIGH SCHOOLS: Are We Doing Enough?
- Model Local Obesity Prevention Resolution: Developed by the National Policy & Legal Analysis Network to Prevent Childhood Obesity (NPLAN)
- Why Adopt an Obesity Prevention Resolution? (NPLAN)
- Local Government Actions to Prevent Childhood Obesity
- partners for public health: working with local, state, and federal agencies to create healthier communities
Built Environment
- THE BUILT ENVIRONMENT AND HEALTH: 11 Profiles of Neighborhood Transformation
- Strategies for Enhancing the Built Environment to Support Healthy Eating and Active Living
- New Partnerships for Healthier Neighborhoods: Bringing Public Health and Redevelopment Together
- Healthy Cities and Urban Governance in San Francisco: Towards Accountability to Population Health
- THE COMMUNITY-DRIVEN EDEN AREA LIVABILITY INITIATIVE: Principles, Priorities, and Projects
Child Obesity
- Expert Committee Recommendations Regarding the Prevention, Assessment, and Treatment of Child and Adolescent Overweight and Obesity: Summary Report
- Obesity Prevalence Among Low-Income, Preschool-Aged Children — United States, 1998–2008
- F as in Fat: How Obesity Policies are Failing in America (2009)
- Overweight and Obesity AmongAmerican Indian and Alaska Native Youths
- Ideas for Federal Administrative Action to Reverse Childhood Obesity
- Products, Tools, and Research Briefs Linked to Local Strategies to Address Childhood Obesity
Federal Nutrition Programs
- 2009 Child Nutrition Reauthorization
- Federal nutrition education program logic model
- Fresh Fruit & Vegetable Program Handbook: Making the Best Decisions for Introducing Fruits and Vegetables to Students
- The Community Nutrition Education (CNE) Logic Model, Version 2 – Overview
- Reauthorizing the Child Nutrition Act and WIC: Ensuring Healthy Foods for Healthy Children
- Changes in the WIC Food Packages: A Toolkit for Partnering with Neighborhood Stores
- The Role of the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) in the Prevention of Maternal and Childhood Overweight and Obesity'
Food & Agriculture
- Recipes for Change: Healthy Food in Every Community
- CULTIVATING COMMON GROUND: Linking Health and Sustainable Agriculture
- Economic Impacts of Increasing Hawai‘i’s Food Self-Sufficiency
- How to Make Healthy Changes in Your Neighborhood
- Rethink your drink
Physical Activity & Physical Education
- The Association Between School-Based Physical Activity, Including Physical Education, and Academic Performance
- The meta-volition model: Organizational leadership is the key ingredient in getting society moving, literally!
- Meta-volition model: A dynamic bio-psychosocial ecological theory of population health behavior change
- The Los Angeles Lift Off: a sociocultural environmental change intervention to integrate physical activity into the workplace
- Active Kids and Academic Performance: The Positive Impact of School-Based Physical Education and Physical Activity
- National Physical Activity Plan for the United States
- National Physical Activity Plan, Pacifica Radio & Instant Recess®: A match made in heaven!
- State Indicator Report on Physical Activity, 2010
- Creating a Robust Public Health Infrastructure for Physical Activity Promotion
Physical Activity in School
- Action for Healthy Kids - From the Top Down: Engaging School Leaders in Creating a Healthier, More Physically Active School Environment
- Action for Healthy Kids - Healthy Fundraisers for Schools: Tips from AFHK Team Members
- Action for Healthy Kids - Hawaii Profile
- Action for Healthy Kids - Guide to Healthy School Fundraising
- Local School Wellness Policies: How Are Schools Implementing the Congressional Mandate?
School Data
Nutrition in School
- Lunch Matters: How to feed our children better
- School Food 101: The Cost of School Lunch
- School Food 101: USDA Commodity Food in School Lunch
- USDA FOODS IN THE NATIONAL SCHOOL LUNCH PROGRAM
Social Determinants
- The Connection Between Economic Development and Health
- Equity, social determinants and public health programmes
- HEALTH FOR ALL: California’s Strategic Approach to Eliminating Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities
- ADDRESSING THE INTERSECTION: Preventing Violence and Promoting Healthy Eating and Active Living
Safe Routes to School
- Five Steps to Federal Funding A Brief Explanation of the Safe Routes to School Program Process
- Safe Routes to School Local School Project: A health evaluation at 10 low-income schools
- Implementation Challenges with the Federal Safe Routes to School Program
- Safe Routes to School Federal Program - State of the States (May 2010)
- National Center for Safe Routes to School Talking Points
- Safe Routes to School Brochure - Iowa
