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Measuring Childhood Obesity: Public Health Surveillance OR School-based Screening and Parent Notification?
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A local, state and international perspective
Monday, March 24, 2008
10:00-11:30 am
Presentations given by Independent School District 191 and the England Department of Health and Department for Children, Schools and Families National Child Measurement Programme (NCMP), are now available for download.
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Bernadette Bien, Licensed School Nurse
Dawn Willson, Health Services Director
Burnsville, Eagan, Savage Independent School District 191
Following pilot work done as part of a research collaboration with the University of Minnesota School of Nursing in 2004/2005, School District 191 implemented an annual BMI screening and parent notification program involving kindergarten, 2nd, 4th and 6th graders. Lessons learned about program development, implementation and refinement will be shared. |
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Bronwyn Petrie and Rosie Taylor
Managers,
Cross-Government Obesity Team
England Department of Health and Department for Children, Schools and Families
National Child Measurement Programme (NCMP)
The NCMP is one component of England’s cross-government obesity prevention strategy. Since 2005, schools throughout the country have conducted annual measurement of all 4-5 year old and 10-11 year old children as part of a population-level national surveillance program. In 2007, Parliament approved a change that will expand the NCMP so parents receive their child’s results. Hear more about the NCMP and its expansion from a surveillance only to a surveillance and screening program to be instituted in the 2008/2009 school year. |
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Martha Roberts
Manager, Chronic Disease Risk Reduction Unit Health Promotion and Chronic Disease Division
Minnesota Department of Health (MDH)
In June 2006, the Minnesota Task Force on Childhood Obesity was commissioned to make recommendations for reducing childhood obesity in Minnesota. The need for a statewide system for monitoring and tracking heights and weights of children was identified as a priority. Findings from a 2007 MDH report detailing options for measuring childhood obesity in Minnesota will be presented. |
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Martha Kubik, PhD, MSN, RNC, Assistant Professor
University of Minnesota School of Nursing
Sponsored by: University of Minnesota School of Nursing and the University of Minnesota Obesity Prevention Center
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