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The California Endowment's healthy eating, active communities program: A midpoint review

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  • Samuels, S.E.
  • Craypo, L.
  • Boyle, M.
  • Crawford, P.B.
  • Yancey, A.
  • Flores, G.

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Objectives. We conducted a midpoint review of The California Endowment's Healthy Eating, Active Communities (HEAC) program, which works in 6 lowincome California communities to prevent childhood obesity by changing children's environments. The HEAC program conducts interventions in 5 key childhood environments: Schools, after-school programs, neighborhoods, health care, and marketing and advertising. Methods. We measured changes in foods and beverages sold at schools and in neighborhoods in HEAC sites; changes in school and after-school physical activity programming and equipment; individual-level changes in children's attitudes and behaviors related to food and physical activity; and HEAC-related awareness and engagement on the part of community members, stakeholders, and policymakers. Results. Children's environments changed to promote healthier lifestyles across a wide range of domains in all 5 key childhood environments for all 6 HEAC communities. Children in HEAC communities are also engaging in more healthy behaviors than they were before the program's implementation. Conclusions. HEAC sites successfully changed children's food and physical activity environments, making a healthy lifestyle a more viable option for lowincome children and their families.

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  • Samuels, S.E. & Craypo, L. & Boyle, M. & Crawford, P.B. & Yancey, A. & Flores, G., 2010. "The California Endowment's healthy eating, active communities program: A midpoint review," American Journal of Public Health, American Public Health Association, vol. 100(11), pages 2114-2123.
    • Handle: RePEc:aph:ajpbhl:10.2105/ajph.2010.192781_6
    DOI: 10.2105/AJPH.2010.192781
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