Evaluating the Impacts of School Nutrition and Physical Activity Policies on Child Health
This dissertation evaluates the impact of elementary school policies on child health behaviors and obesity in the United States. Two chapters address nutrition policies, two chapters address physical activity policies, and a final chapter estimates the health care cost savings associated with a decline in childhood obesity prevalence. The use of large national datasets allows for the investigation of disparities by child, school and regional factors. This is in contrast to other studies which are based on a limited geographic area or small, demographically homogeneous samples.
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- Document Number: RGSD-257
- Year: 2010
- Series: Dissertations
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This document was submitted as a dissertation in December 2009 in partial fulfillment of the requirements of the doctoral degree in public policy analysis at the Pardee RAND Graduate School. The faculty committee that supervised and approved the dissertation consisted of Roland Sturm (Chair), Pierre-Carl Michaud, Chloe Bird, and Don Bundy. This dissertation was supported by the Jim Lovelace Foundation, Active Living Research (a national program of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation), and RAND Health.
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