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The Surgeon General's Call To Action To Prevent and Decrease Overweight and Obesity

The Surgeon General's Call To Action To Prevent and Decrease Overweight and Obesity

Summary of the 2000 Surgeon General's Listening Session: Toward a National Action Plan on Overweight and Obesity

Childhood Overweight and Obesity Prevention Initiative

Call to Action Follow-up Activities

The NIH Division of Nutrition Research Coordination (DNRC) has collaborated with the Office of Public Health and Science (OPHS) and each of their 10 Regional Health Administrators and provided support for the organization and logistics of a follow-up meetings to The Surgeon General's Call To Action To Prevent and Decrease Overweight and Obesity. These follow-up meetings have been part of the HHS actions undertaken to foster initiatives and collaborations at the local community level. These workshops or public forums should offer an opportunity to solicit the opinions of community organizations, professional groups, consumers, and federal, state, and local government workers on the identification of potential actions, interactions, and collaborations that can help prevent and decrease overweight and obesity.

A summary report describing the participants, objectives and the identified actions or accomplishments of each of the meetings will be shared with all Federal agency representatives involved in the follow-up actions to The Surgeon General's Call To Action To Prevent and Decrease Overweight and Obesity.

National

The National Obesity Action Forum , June 5-6, 2006 is a follow-up to the 2001 Surgeon General's Call to Action to Prevent and Decrease Overweight and Obesity. Since the 2001 release, the ten U.S. Public Health Service Regions have hosted "regional meetings" with the distinct purpose of stimulating local action. This follow-up meeting will provide a forum for discussing local actions, including those taken at the state level that have occurred since the Call to Action. More specifically, the forum will serve to identify lessons learned in implementing change at the family and community levels--lessons from the ten conferences that were held in collaboration with the Office of the Regional Health Administrators since the Call to Action was released in December 2001.

Region I

Region II

Region III

Region IV

  • 2004 Obesity Workshop (December 1-3, 2004). The conference will feature speakers on Nutrition and Physical Activity, Body Composition and Action Learning Labs.

Region V

Region VI

  • Weighing Down Obesity Conference (August 7 - 8, 2003) The conference brought together federal, state, and local experts from Region VI to share their experiences in developing culturally appropriate services that address obesity prevention, training, and research activities.

Region VII

Region VIII

  • Spring 2005: A video conference workshop on Hispanic/ Latino obesity prevention and treatment is planned. The Planning Committee includes continued participation from committee used for the Nov 2002 Region VIII obesity prevention conference. Date and agenda TBD.

  • May 2004: A video conference workshop entitled "Fighting the Obesity Epidemic in Indian Country" was held. The conference had over 40 sites, primarily from Region VIII, participate in this half day workshop. Seventy five copies of the video tape were requested by those unable to attend the actual workshop.

  • November 2002: A two day conference entitled "Addressing the Obesity Epidemic: Our Region takes Action!" was held. Topics blended scientific research with successful approaches for real populations in real environments.

Region IX

  • August 18-20, 2004: Meeting held at the UCLA Conference Center, Los Angeles, CA

Region X
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