Using Participatory Action Research to Develop a School-based Environmental Intervention to Support Healthy Eating and Physical Activity
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Rates of overweight children and adolescents are reaching epidemic proportions, nearly tripling over the past 30 years. Many barriers exist to healthy eating and physical activity for children and adolescents, including factors in the school and community environments. It is these modifiable school environmental factors that led to the development of the Nutrition Friendly Schools and Communities (NFSC) criteria and model to prevent the development of overweight in children and adolescents. This paper describes the development of the NFSC criteria and model, which was developed in collaboration with school community stakeholders to support healthy eating and physical activity and decrease the rising rates of overweight children. Using Participatory Action Research to Develop a School-based Environmental Intervention to Support Healthy Eating and Physical Activity
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تاریخ انتشار 2008