ORIGINAL RESEARCH
Strategies Proposed by Healthy Kids, Healthy Communities Partnerships to Prevent Childhood Obesity
| CDC Category | CDC Recommendations | No. of Matching Strategies Proposed by HKHC Sites |
|---|---|---|
| Strategies to promote the availability of affordable healthy food and beverages | 1: Communities should increase availability of healthier food and beverage choices in public service venues. | 11 |
| 2: Communities should improve availability of affordable healthier food and beverage choices in public service venues. | 1 | |
| 3: Communities should improve geographic availability of supermarkets in underserved areas. | 3 | |
| 4: Communities should provide incentives to food retailers to locate in and/or offer healthier food and beverage choices in underserved areas. | 20 | |
| 5: Communities should improve availability of mechanisms for purchasing foods from farms. | 20 | |
| 6: Communities should provide incentives for the production, distribution, and procurement of foods from local farms. | 5 | |
| Strategies to support healthy food and beverage choices | 7: Communities should restrict availability of less healthy foods and beverages in public service venues. | 2 |
| 8: Communities should institute smaller portion size options in public service venues. | 1 | |
| 9: Communities should limit advertisements of less healthy foods and beverages. | 3 | |
| 10: Communities should discourage consumption of sugar-sweetened beverages. | 0 | |
| Strategies to encourage physical activity or limit sedentary activity among children and youth | 12: Communities should require physical education (PE) in schools. | 1 |
| 13: Communities should increase the amount of physical activity in PE programs in schools. | 2 | |
| 14: Communities should increase opportunities for extracurricular physical activity. | 14 | |
| 15: Communities should reduce screen time in public service venues. | 1 | |
| Strategies to create safe communities that support physical activity | 16: Communities should improve access to outdoor recreational facilities. | 20 |
| 17: Communities should enhance infrastructure supporting cycling. | 17 | |
| 18: Communities should enhance infrastructure supporting walking. | 23 | |
| 19: Communities should support locating schools within easy walking distance of residential areas. | 0 | |
| 20: Communities should improve access to public transportation. | 4 | |
| 21: Communities should zone for mixed-use development. | 2 | |
| 22: Communities should enhance personal safety in areas where people are or could be physically active. | 10 | |
| 23: Communities should enhance traffic safety in areas where people are or could be physically active. | 12 |
Figure 1. Number of childhood obesity prevention strategies proposed by the 41 Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s Healthy Kids, Healthy Communities funded sites and classified by Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) as recommendations for preventing obesity. Each site could propose more than 1 strategy; in addition, 21 strategies that were too broad to match the CDC recommendations were classified as “to be determined.”
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