Childhood Obesity: Nursing Policy Implications

Journal of Pediatric Nursing

Volumn 21, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 308-310

  Sheehan, Noreen Clarke ^a,b   Yin, Larry ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EID: 33745744514     PISSN: 08825963     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pedn.2006.04.001     Document Type: Note

References (14)

1. Committee on Prevention of Obesity in Children and Youth. Food and Nutrition Board. Board on Health Promotion and Disease Prevention. Institute of Medicine of the National Academies. In: Koplan J.P., Liverman C.T., and Kraak V.I. (Eds). Preventing childhood obesity. Health in the balance (2004), Institute of Medicine, the National Academies Press, Washington (DC)
2. Fontaine K.R., Redden D.T., Wang C., Westfall A.O., and Allison D.B. Years of life lost due to obesity. Journal of the American Medical Association 289 (2003) 187-193
3. Gifford K.D. Dietary fats, eating guides, and public policy: History, critique and recommendations. American Journal of Medicine 113 Suppl 9B (2002) 89S-106S
4. Hedley A.A., Ogden C.L., Johnson C.L., Carroll M.D., Curtin L.R., and Flegal K.M. Prevalence of overweight and obesity among US children, adolescents, and adults, 1999-2002. Journal of the American Medical Association 291 (2004) 2847-2850
5. Inge T.H., Garcia V., Daniels S., et al. A multidisciplinary approach to the adolescent bariatric surgical patient. Journal of Pediatric Surgery 39 (2004) 442-447
6. Molarius A. The combination of lifestyle factors to socioeconomic differences in obesity in men and women-A population based study in Sweden. European Journal of Epidemiology 18 (2003) 227-234
7. Nestle M., and Jacobsen M.F. Halting the obesity epidemic: A public health policy approach. Public Health Reports 115 (2000) 12-24
8. Roberts R. No fat tax (2002), St Louis Post-Dispatch, St Louis C17
9. Society of Pediatric Nursing. Position statement on physical activity and exercise. Journal of Pediatric Nursing 21 (2006) 80-83
10. Shahar D., Shai I., Vardi H., Shar A., and Fraser D. Diet and eating habits in high and low socioeconomic groups. Nutrition 5 (2005) 559-666
11. Sturm R. The effects of obesity, smoking, and drinking on medical problems and costs. Health Affairs 21 (2002) 245-253
12. Sturm R. Increases in clinically severe obesity in the United States, 1986-2000. Archives of Internal Medicine 163 (2003) 2146-2148
13. Whitaker R.C., Wright J.A., Pepe M.S., Seidel K.D., and Dietz W.H. Predicting obesity in young adulthood from childhood and parental obesity. New England Journal of Medicine 337 (1997) 869-873
14. U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. The Surgeon General's call to action to prevent and decrease overweight and obesity (2001), U.S. Department of Health and Human Services; Public Health Service; Office of the Surgeon General, Rockville (Md)