The Child Nutrition and WIC Reauthorization Act of 2004
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry
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Published: 2004
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Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry
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Published: 2004
Total Pages: 136
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Published: 1847
Total Pages: 978
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Published: 2004
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Karen Bogenschneider
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2003-01-30
Total Pages: 503
ISBN-13: 1135659974
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDrawing on hundreds of studies in the last 20 years, the new edition of Family Policy Matters brings a fresh perspective to family policy, underscoring why it is needed, and outlining how policymaking should be approached. Author Karen Bogenschneider proposes a theoretical framework for conceptualizing policy issues in a way that holds the potential for overcoming controversy and identifying common ground. This new edition includes updates on the most current research, including: *new issues that have changed the political landscape for families (e.g. strengthening marriage initiative, same-sex marriage); *an updated section on state statutes or Governor's orders that require family impact analysis; *a new chapter on the history of family policy in this century; *a new appendix on how to conduct a family impact analysis; and *two new case studies on writing family policy newsletters for state policymakers and teaching family impact analysis to the general public. *Instructor's Manual with sample syllabi for both undergraduate and graduate courses, suggested readings, assignments, and class activities, discussion questions, daily lesson plans, instructor insights, special presentations to enrich one's class, and PowerPoint slides. The targeted audience includes researchers interested in seeing their research and ideas acted upon in the policy world; family professionals who work to connect research and policymaking; and instructors interested in making family policy come alive for undergraduate and graduate students. This book is an ideal textbook for family policy courses.
Author: Institute of Medicine
Publisher: National Academies Press
Published: 2007-03-22
Total Pages: 495
ISBN-13: 0309102081
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe remarkable increase in the prevalence of obesity among children and youth in the United States over a relatively short timespan represents one of the defining public health challenges of the 21st century. The country is beginning to recognize childhood obesity as a major public health epidemic that will incur substantial costs to the nation. However, the current level of investment by the public and private sectors still does not match the extent of the problem. There is a substantial underinvestment of resources to adequately address the scope of this obesity crisis. At this early phase in addressing the epidemic, actions have begun on a number of levels to improve the dietary patterns and to increase the physical activity levels of young people. Schools, corporations, youth-related organizations, families, communities, foundations, and government agencies are working to implement a variety of policy changes, new programs, and other interventions. These efforts, however, generally remain fragmented and small in scale. Moreover, the lack of systematic monitoring and evaluation of interventions have hindered the development of an evidence base to identify, apply, and disseminate lessons learned and to support promising efforts to prevent childhood obesity. Progress in Preventing Childhood Obesity: How Do We Measure Up? examines the progress made by obesity prevention initiatives in the United States from 2004 to 2006. This book emphasizes a call to action for key stakeholders and sectors to commit to and demonstrate leadership in childhood obesity prevention, evaluates all policies and programs, monitors their progress, and encourages stakeholders to widely disseminate promising practices. This book will be of interest to federal, state, and local government agencies; educators and schools; public health and health care professionals; private-sector companies and industry trade groups; media; parents; and those involved in implementing community-based programs and consumer advocacy.
Author: U. S. Commission on Civil Rights
Publisher: CreateSpace
Published: 2013-02-15
Total Pages: 156
ISBN-13: 9781482551396
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe report reveals that the Native American health care system created by the federal government has used only limited and incremental responses to the health care challenges faced by Native Americans.
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKChild nutrition programs (e.g., school meal programs, summer food service, child care food programs) and the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (the WIC Program) are subject to periodic comprehensive reviews, when appropriations and other authorities expire and have to be reauthorized. They were up for reauthorization review in the 108th Congress, and the only substantial child nutrition-WIC legislation in the 108th Congress, and so far in the 109th Congress, has been the 2004 reauthorization law -- the Child Nutrition and WIC Reauthorization Act of 2004, P.L. 108-265, enacted June 30, 2004. The 2004 law extended virtually all expiring authorities through FY2009 and contained important, but incremental, changes in child nutrition programs and the WIC program; the Congressional Budget Office estimated that it will generate net new spending totaling about $230 million through FY2009. Its major feature was a set of amendments aimed at improving the integrity and administration of the school meal programs. Significant changes were made in procedures relating to the way children's eligibility for free and reduced-price school meals is certified and verified, and new initiatives to upgrade schools' administration of their meal programs were put in place. However, minimal revisions were made to the school meal programs themselves -- for example, expansion of eligibility for homeless, runaway, and migrant children, loosened rules for certain higher school breakfast subsidies -- and a major proposal to phase in higher income eligibility limits for free school meals was limited to an authorization for a pilot project. Relatively minor amendments also affected the Summer Food Service and Child and Adult Care Food programs -- for example, making permanent and expanding coverage of "Lugar" rules facilitating participation by summer program sponsors and making permanent and nationally applicable a rule loosening Child and Adult Care Food program eligibility rules for for-profit child care centers. Another area of concern addressed by the reauthorization law was nutrition, health, and nutrition education. Here, the biggest initiative was a requirement that all schools participating in school meal programs establish locally designed "wellness policies" to set nutrition, physical activity, and other goals and strategies for meeting them. Coupled with it were (1) authorizations for new nutrition education efforts, (2) an expansion of the program offering free fresh fruit and vegetables in selected schools, and (3) significant changes in food safety rules. Finally, a large number of revisions were made to the law governing the WIC program. The most important among them were amendments aimed at strengthening rules that help contain food costs incurred by the program; these included provisions placing substantial limits on vendors receiving the majority of their revenue from WIC vouchers (so-called "WIC-only" stores). This report will be updated as events and legislation warrant.
Author: Shiriki Kumanyika
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Published: 2007-09-23
Total Pages: 553
ISBN-13: 0387478604
DOWNLOAD EBOOKComprehensive in scope and meticulously researched, Handbook of Obesity Prevention analyzes the intricate causes of this public health crisis, and sets out concrete, multilevel strategies for meeting it head-on. This innovative handbook clearly defines obesity in clinical, epidemiologic, and financial terms, and offers guidelines for planning and implementing programs and evaluating results. This systematic approach to large-scale social and policy change gives all parties involved—from individual practitioners to multinational corporations—the tools to set and attain realistic goals based on solid evidence and best practice in public health. A sample of topics covered: The individual: risk factors and prevention across the lifespan, specific populations (pregnant women, ethnic and regional groups). Levers for change in schools and workplaces. Community settings: role of the physical environment. "De-marketing" obesity: food industries and the media. Grassroots action: consumers and communities. The global obesity epidemic: rapid developments, potential solutions. From obesity prevention to health promotion: the future of the field. Its level of detail and wide range of topics make the Handbook of Obesity Prevention a bedrock sourcebook, overview, reference, or teaching text. Read by topic or cover to cover, here is accurate, up-to-date information for professionals and students in all areas of public health.
Author: Stephanie A. Mercier
Publisher: Springer Nature
Published: 2020-04-01
Total Pages: 439
ISBN-13: 3030364526
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book serves as a foundational reference of U.S. land settlement and early agricultural policy, a comprehensive journey through the evolution of 20th century agricultural policy, and a detailed guide to the key agricultural policy issues of the early 21st century. This book integrates the legal, economic and political concepts and ideas that guided U.S. agricultural policy from colonial settlement to the 21st century, and it applies those concepts to the policy issues agriculture will face over the next generation. The book is organized into three sections. Section one introduces the main themes of the book, explores the pre-Columbian period and early European settlement, and traces the first 150 years of U.S. agricultural policy starting with the post revolution period and ending with the “golden age” of agriculture in the early 20th century. Section two outlines that grand bargain of the 1930s that initiated the modern era of government intervention into agricultural markets and traces this policy evolution to the early days of the 21st century. The third section provides an in-depth examination of six policy issues that dominate current policy discussions and will impact policy decisions for the next generation: trade, environment/conservation, commodity checkoff programs, crop insurance, biofuels, and domestic nutrition programs.