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BACKGROUND
With the rise in childhood obesity, school policies related to nutrition and physical activity have been written and implemented. In this paper, we present a model to evaluate the degree to which state legislation for school health policies are implemented at the school level.
METHODS
Using Washington, DC's Healthy Schools Act (HSA) and a self‐report measure of the implementation of the...
BACKGROUND: Epidemic increases in childhood obesity and associated health risks are resulting in efforts to implement school policies related to nutrition and physical activity (NPA). With multicomponent policy efforts, challenges exist in characterizing the extent of policy change across the breadth of NPA policies.
METHODS: Aggregated policy indices were created to characterize NPA policy implementation...
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