Tools and Resources
Planning for Success
- Anti-Lobbying Restrictions for CDC Grantees
General overview of lobbying restrictions on the work of CDC grantees, along with examples of restricted and permissible activities. The examples are provided for illustrative purposes, but should not be regarded as definitive legal guidance, as they may not apply to the specific circumstances of the work of any specific grantee. - Obesity Prevention Strategies – These publications provide guidance for program managers, policy makers, and others on how to select strategies to increase physical activity, fruit and vegetable consumption and breastfeeding.
- Body Mass Index: Considerations for Practitioners [PDF-142Kb] – Consider these issues when using BMI to measure body fat.
- Health Equity Toolkit [PDF - 4.1Mb] – The purpose of this toolkit is to increase the capacity of state health departments and their partners to work with and through communities to implement effective responses to obesity in populations that are facing health disparities. The Toolkit’s primary focus is on how to create policy, systems, and environmental changes that will reduce obesity disparities and achieve health equity.
- DNPAO Sources of Evidence [PDF-176Kb] – Learn about the use of evidence on environmental and policy-based obesity prevention initiatives.
- Find Strategies – This list of intervention strategies will provide guidance in planning approaches that will address healthy eating, physical activity and obesity prevention.
- Social Marketing Resources - Social marketing can be thought of as a mindset used in planning and partnership development, or a structured and strategic planning process. It can be used to influence the behavior of individuals or the behavior of policymakers and influential persons for policy and environmental changes. The structured planning process allows you to make well-informed decisions about what audiences to target, what are their specific needs, and how you can meet those needs. The development of programs or products to effectively change behavior can be accomplished by understanding your audience. This Web section offers various information and resources using social marketing methods.
Implementation of Strategies
- Steps to Wellness: A Guide to Implementing the 2008 Physical Activity Guidelines for Americans in the Workplace – This toolkit provides employers interested in creating or expanding their wellness programs with easy and understandable steps on how to increase the physical activity of employees in their workplace.
- Guide to Community Preventative Services: Review of Interventions that Support Healthy Weight
A systematic review of the effectiveness of selected population-based interventions aimed at supporting healthful weight among children, adolescents, and adults. - Healthy Communities: What Local Governments Can Do to Reduce and Prevent Obesity [PPT-14.1Mb]
This presentation, which was developed for local government staff, provides a basic understanding of the prevalence, disease burden, and economic cost of the U.S. obesity epidemic and how local government can be a part of the solution.
Also available in an Adobe Acrobat version [PDF-3.8Mb]. - Healthier Food Retail (HFR) The food retail environment can be an important factor in people’s obesity risk and ability to eat a healthy diet. In recent years, leading public health authorities have recommended improving the retail food environment to make healthier foods more accessible among underserved populations.
- Healthier Food Retail: Beginning the Assessment Process in Your State or Community [PDF-522k] provides public health practitioners with an overview of how to develop an assessment of their state’s or community’s food retail environment.
- State Initiatives Supporting Healthier Food Retail: An Overview of the National Landscape [PDF-2.3Mb] provides public health practitioners, their partners, community members, and policy makers with useful information about the rationale for and characteristics of state-based healthier food retail legislation enacted in the last decade. Action steps that public health practitioners can use to inform, educate, and support improved fruit and vegetable access through HFR initiatives are also provided.
- Center of Excellence for Training and Research Translation (Center TRT) – This Interventions Overview page provides resources designed to support the planning, implementation and evaluation of evidence-supported nutrition, physical activity and obesity prevention interventions.
Evaluate Your Program
- Developing an Effective Evaluation Plan: Setting the course for effective program evaluation [PDF-2.5Mb]
This workbook helps public health program managers, administrators, and evaluators develop a joint understanding of what constitutes an evaluation plan, why it is important, and how to develop an effective evaluation plan in the context of the planning process. - State NPAO Evaluation Guidance Documents - These evaluation guidance documents: clarify approaches to and methods of evaluation; provide examples and tools specific to the scope and purpose of state nutrition, physical activity and obesity programs; and, recommend resources for additional reading.
- Developing and Using an Evaluation Consultation Group (PDF-477K)
- Evaluation of State Nutrition, Physical Activity, and Obesity Plans (PDF-620k)
- Partnership Evaluations Guidebook and Resources (PDF-1.47Mb)
- Health Bucks Evaluation Toolkit – Use the key finding from this evaluation to implement farmers’ market incentive programs.
Promising Practices
- Highlights and Stories from the Field - Learn from the state programs working to improve the health of Americans by changing environments where people live, work, learn, and play.
- Early Assessment of Programs and Policies to Prevent Childhood Obesity – Read reports from a 2-year collaborative project to identify and assess local-level programs and policies that appear promising to improve the eating habits and physical activity levels of children.
Training
- Center of Excellence for Training and Research Translation (Center TRT) – Find in-person courses, webinars and web-based trainings for public health practitioners working in nutrition, physical activity, obesity and chronic disease prevention programs.
- WHO Growth Charts Training Module – Learn how to use the WHO growth standards to monitor growth for infants and children ages 0 to 2 years of age in the U.S.
- Social Marketing for Nutrition and Physical Activity Web-based Course – Learn how to use social marketing to plan nutrition, physical activity, and obesity prevention programs.
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