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Obesity: Meal and Fruit and Vegetable Snack Interventions to Increase Healthier Foods and Beverages Provided by Schools
Community Preventive Services Task ForceThe Community Preventive Services Task Force recommends meal interventions and fruit and vegetable snack interventions to increase the availability of healthier foods and beverages provided by schools. This finding is based on evidence that they increase fruit and vegetable consumption and reduce or maintain the rate of obesity or overweight.
(DHPE)Obesity: Multicomponent Interventions to Increase Availability of Healthier Foods and Beverages in Schools
Community Preventive Services Task ForceThe Community Preventive Services Task Force recommends multicomponent interventions to increase availability of healthier foods and beverages in schools. This finding is based on evidence that they reduce or maintain the rate of obesity or overweight.
(DHPE)Obesity: Supporting Healthier Snack Foods and Beverages Sold or Offered as Rewards in Schools
Community Preventive Services Task ForceThe Community Preventive Services Task Force finds insufficient evidence to determine the effectiveness of interventions supporting healthier snack foods and beverages sold or rewarded in schools. Evidence is considered insufficient because too few studies that evaluated comparable dietary and weight outcomes.
(DHPE)On the Move: Safe Routes to School Policies in Rural School Districts
ChangeLab SolutionsChangeLab Solutions, in collaboration with CA4Health, developed this fact sheet to call out specific approaches and tools that may be of particular assistance to rural schools, exploring elements of the Safe Routes to School District Policy Workbook – a free online resource that can help districts develop effective policies for supporting healthy students.
(DHPE)Organizational Transformation: From Policy to Practice, Building Health Equity in Boston
Boston Public Health CommissionProvides an overview the Boston Health Commissions Racial Justice and Health Equity Initiatives policy change work and lessons learned
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