Legislation and Policy
- The Strategic Alliance
This is a coalition of nutrition and physical activity advocates in California. Their website www.eatbettermovemore.org is comprehensive and full of concrete, useful information to support your planning efforts. Some key areas of the website that we recommend you visit include:
- Become a MEMBER (click on Membership - takes 3 minutes): Joining the Strategic Alliance is an opportunity to demonstrate your support of the Alliance's mission. Benefits include receiving information on cutting edge issues (via email and web) and opportunities to participate in general meetings, events, subcommittees, legislative action, and advocacy.
- ENACT Interactive!
The Strategic Alliance for Healthy Food and Activity Environments has launched a new interactive element to the Environmental Nutrition and Activity Community Tool (ENACT). ENACT is a web-based tool designed to help communities improve their nutrition and physical activity environments by offering a specific menu of achievable strategies divided into seven key environments complemented by available research, model policies and programs, specific tools and organizations to assist in implementation. ENACT users can now create free user accounts for the purposes of storing, tracking and compiling status and priority assessments for chosen ENACT strategies.
www.eatbettermovemore.org/enact.html
- Also of note is the Nutrition Policy Profiles that offer prevention-focused policy recommendations and model practices related to improving nutrition and health. The Policy Profiles can be found here:
www.preventioninstitute.org/npp.html
- The California Center for Public Health Advocacy (CCPHA)
CCPHA tracks major nutrition and physical activity major bills being considered by the state legislature, and provides legislative updates to members of its Statewide Advocacy Network.
www.publichealthadvocacy.org/legislation/index.html
- Environmental Changes to Curb Obesity
New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof explores the environmental and policy changes being made in Arkansas as the result of Governor Mike Huckabee's insights based on his own weight loss and call for similar environemtnal and policy changes nationwide in this two-part column.
Download:
NYT Op-Ed I [9k pdf file]
NYT Op-Ed II [9k pdf file]
- 2005 State Legislation and Policies Affecting Child and Adolescent Nutrition and Physical Activity
This report, prepared for the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, focuses on the 2005 legislative activity that sought to address child and adolescent nutrition and physical activity. While a fraction of the bills introduced were enacted, the volume of legislation introduced exemplifies the level of attention state lawmakers are giving to promote nutrition, increase physical activity and prevent obesity across all age groups.
Download: 2005 Legislative Update [1.2MB pdf file]
- Health Policy Guide
The Center for Health Improvement's Health Policy Guide provides evidence-based, peer-reviewed policy guidance and resources to support advocacy and decision-making at the state and local levels. The site contains over 150 policy topics in a searchable/user friendly format as well as general tips and tools for community policy change and advocacy.
www.healthpolicycoach.org/
- Action for Healthy Kids - Wellness Policy Tool
Action for Healthy Kids has announced the Wellness Policy Tool, a searchable database of policies (state and district) to help guide the drafting of local wellness policies. The database has an easy-to-use template, a listing of fundamental elements to consider including in policies, and access to hundreds of individual policy components that can be cut and pasted into the template to create local wellness policies. The database will be updated as new policies emerge.
www.actionforhealthykids.org/resources.php
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