Resources
Topic Briefs
Research and Reports
"Creating Healthy Food and Eating Environments"
The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation examines how food and eating environments likely contribute to the increasing epidemic of obesity and chronic diseases, over and above individual factors such as knowledge, skills and motivation.
"Models for Change: Lessons for Creating Active Living Communities"
A series of 11 case studies examining active living policy change and policy innovations in several U.S. communities, prepared under the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation's Active Living Research program.
"F as in Fat: How Obesity Policies are Failing in America"
A report by the Trust for America's Health explores the current policy weaknesses and new, grand scale changes that need to be considered to address the obesity crisis nationwide.
Other Resources
Healthy People 2010
Administered by the federal government's Health and Human Services, Healthy People 2010 is a set of health objectives for the nation to achieve over the first decade of the new century. It can be used by many different people, states, communities, professional organizations and others to help develop programs to improve health.
CDC's Obesity and Overweight Web Site
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's information-rich web site looks at the epidemic from a number of different angles.
Healthy Eating Active Living Convergence Partnership
The partnership is a collaboration of funders with the shared goal of changing policies and environments to better achieve the vision of healthy people living in healthy places.
U.S. Preventive Services Task Force
An independent panel of experts in primary care and prevention that systematically reviews the evidence of the effectiveness of, and develops recommendations for, clinical preventive services.