Local community programs featured at ISBNPA 2016

Doing more things, more places, and at more levels in the settngs of the local community is a challenging process. Scientists from the Pacific, the US and Denmark has now met for the third time at the annual ISBNPA conference to exchange experiences on how to deal with these challenges.

The symposium was highlighting Sol program, the B'More Healthy and the Children’s Healthy Living program. and was entitled "Impact of multi-level, multi-component interventions to improve food intake and active living and decrease prevalence of obesity: Process evaluation and preliminary results. The symposium was moderated by Rachel Novotny, University of Hawaii, Honolulu, Hawaii, United States. The program was as follows. You can click to download the slides

Introduction & summary: Rachel Novotny

B’More Healthy Communities for Kids (BHCK), a multilevel obesity prevention program for African American children: Wave 1 process and impact results Baltimore Maryland USA: Joel Gittelsohn, Professor, John Hopkins school of Pulbic Health, Baltimore

Children’s Healthy Living for Remote Underserved Minority Populations of the Pacific (CHL) Program- A multilevel multicomponent child obesity program in 11 jurisdictions of the US Affiliated Pacific Region. Rachel Novotny, Professor, University of Hawaii

SOL Program – a local community multi-level and multi-component health promotion program:  results from 1st wave and outline of a community preparedness assessment tool, Denmark: Bent Egberg Mikkelsen, Professor, AAU