A Selection of Published Literature

Policy

Physical Activity | Nutrition | Television

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Policy & Physical Activity

Henderson, K.A., L.J. Neff, P.A. Sharpe, M.L. Greaney, S.W. Royce, B.E. Ainsworth. "It Takes a Village" to Promote Physical Activity: The Potential for Public Park and Recreation Departments. Journal of Park and Recreation Administration, 19(1):23-41, 2001.

Brownson RC, Schmid TL, Eyler AA, Pratt M, Murayi T, Mayer JP, and Brown DR. Support for policy interventions to increase physical activity in rural Missouri. Am J Health Promotion 1999;12(4):263-66.

Gabbei, R. and D. Hamrick. Using Physical Activity Homework to Meet National Standards. Journal of Physical Education and Dance, 72(4):21-26, 2001.

Public Health Institute. A Special Report on Policy Implications from the 1999 California Children’s Healthy Eating and Exercise Practices Survey (CalCHEEPS). Public Health Institute: Sacramento, CA. May 2001.

Sallis JF, Bauman A, Pratt M. Environmental and policy interventions to promote physical activity. Am J Prev Med 1998;15:379-97.

Simons-Morton BG, O'Hara NM, Simons-Morton DG, Parcel GS. Children and fitness: a public health perspective. Res Q Exercise Sport 1987;58:295-303.

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Policy & Nutrition

Geiger CJ. Communicating Dietary Guidelines for Americans: Room for improvement. Am J Diet Assoc 2001;101:793-97.

International Obesity Task Force. Assessment of childhood and adolescent obesity. Results from an International Obesity Task Force workshop. Dublin, June 16, 1997. Am J Clin Nutr, 1999;70:117S-75S.

Nestle M. Food lobbies, the Food Guide Pyramid, and U.S. nutrition policy. Int J Health Services 1993;23:483-96.

Public Health Institute. A Special Report on Policy Implications from the 1999 California Children’s Healthy Eating and Exercise Practices Survey (CalCHEEPS). Public Health Institute: Sacramento, CA. May 2001.

Schmid TL, Jeffery RW, Forster JL, Rooney B, McBride C. Public support for policy initiatives regulating high-fat food use in Minnesota: a multicommunity survey. Prev Med 1989;18:791-805.

U.S. Department of Agriculture. Competitive food service (7 CFR, 210.2 and 210.12; 220.2 and 220.12). Federal Register. January 1, 1986.

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Policy & Children's Television

American Academy of Pediatrics. Policy statement: children, adolescents, and television (RE0043). Pediatrics 2001;107:423-426.

Federal Communications Commission. Report and order: policies and rules concerning children's television programming. Federal Communications Commission Record. 1991;6:2111-2127.

Kunkel D. Child and family regulatory policy. In: Bryant J, ed. Television and the American Family. Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates; 1990.

Wartella, E. Communication Research on Children and Public Policy. Chapter 9 in "Beyond Agendas: New Directions in Communication Research," Philip Gaunt, EditZor, Westport, CT London: Greenwood Press 1993.

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