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ReviewCurrent obesity reports2015

Childhood Obesity Prevention in Childcare Settings: the Potential of Policy and Environmental Change Interventions.

Laura Lessard, Andrew Breck

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Review in Current obesity reports, 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 10 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

10 citing papers in PubMed.

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  3. Young Children's Dietary Quality in Family Child Care and in Their Own Home.Journal of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics · 2023
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Laura LessardCollege of Health Sciences, Arcadia University, 450 South Easton Road, Glenside, PA, 19038, USA. LessardL@Arcadia.edu.
Andrew BreckNew York University Wagner School of Public Service, 295 Lafayette St, New York, NY, 10012, USA. andrew.breck@nyumc.org.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Current obesity rates in young children are a serious public health concern; developing and implementing obesity prevention interventions in childcare settings is a promising avenue to address this issue. In recent years, there has been increasing focus on environmental and policy change interventions for this setting. Improving access to and quality of outdoor play spaces and implementing the Nutrition and Physical Activity Self-Assessment for Child Care (NAP SACC) are two promising environmental change strategies in this setting. Laws at the local, state, and federal level have also been implemented; New York City and Delaware are two jurisdictions that have passed policies and provided preliminary evidence of the potential of policy interventions to change child outcomes. A combination of programmatic, environmental, and policy change strategies will likely be most effective in maximizing the potential of childcare settings to promote healthy weight in children.

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Child CareChild Day Care CentersEnvironment DesignExercisePlay and PlaythingsPublic PolicyChildDelawareDietHealth BehaviorHealth PromotionHumansNew York CityPediatric ObesityChildcareNutritionObesityPhysical activityPolicy interventionsPreschoolPrevention

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