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CDC Recognizes Innovative Obesity Prevention and Control Initiatives With Weight of the Nation Awards
Date:7/29/2009

  • Kaiser Permanente
    • Kaiser Permanente's Healthy Eating, Active Living initiative focuses on influencing environmental and policy changes in community food and physical environments where individuals live, work, play, and go to school. In addition to its commitment to clinical interventions in weight management and industry-leading changes in its own food system, Kaiser Permanente supports grassroots coalitions in 40 communities nationwide to improve food and physical activity environments, and to enact policies that support healthy eating and active living in underserved communities.
  • Navajo Nation
    • The Navajo Nation, located in the Four Corners region, is the largest reservation in the United States. For more than 30 years, the Navajo Nation has been working to improve maternity care practices designed to encourage breastfeeding. These efforts have resulted in positive outcomes including reduced infant illness and reduced medical costs and absenteeism for breastfeeding mothers.
  • Nemours Health and Prevention Services
    • Nemours Children's Health System works to improve the health and well-being of children through a continuum of community-based prevention, primary care and medical care. To address the social determinants of children's health, NHPS employs a population-oriented, multi-sector approach, implementing policy and practice changes in the places where children live, learn and play. Through its statewide work in schools, childcare, primary care, youth-serving organizations and the built environment, NHPS has reached more than 100,000 Delaware children with its healthy behavior change initiatives.
  • Pennsylvania Fresh Food Financing Initiative
    • The Pennsylvania Fresh Food Financing Initiative (FFFI), a project of The Food Trust, The Reinvestment Fund, the Gre
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