eprintid: 6820
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datestamp: 2011-11-10 19:34:42
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type: thesis_degree
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contact_email: KReeners@hotmail.com
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creators_name: Reeners, Kathryn Zella
creators_email: KReeners@hotmail.com
title: A Comparison of School-Based and Clinic-Based Interventions for the Prevention and Control of Childhood Obesity
ispublished: unpub
divisions: sch_gsph_behavioralcommhealthsci
full_text_status: public
keywords: childhood obesity; Obesity interventions components
abstract: In the United States, obesity is becoming an ever increasing problem, especially among youth. The prevalence of adult obesity-related health complications, until recently were only seen in adults, are arising within the youth population. The increasing rate of childhood obesity is of public health importance; if not properly dealt with now, the current generation of children will grow up and face serious health complications both in their late childhood and adult years.To address this epidemic, two approaches that can be utilized are school-based and clinical based interventions. Even though each type of intervention takes place in a different setting, the same basic principles of nutrition education, healthy eating and physical activity are addressed. While each of the two types of interventions has strengths and weaknesses, the overall goals of both school-based and clinic-based interventions are a reduction in weight and increase in the health of the children participating in the intervention.
date: 2008-06-26
date_type: completed
institution: University of Pittsburgh
refereed: TRUE
etdcommittee_type: committee_chair
etdcommittee_type: committee_member
etdcommittee_type: committee_member
etdcommittee_name: Terry, Martha Ann
etdcommittee_name: Butler, James
etdcommittee_name: Grubs, Robin E
etdcommittee_email: materry@pitt.edu
etdcommittee_email: jbutler9@pitt.edu
etdcommittee_email: rgrubs@pitt.edu
etdcommittee_id: MATERRY
etdcommittee_id: JBUTLER9
etdcommittee_id: RGRUBS
etd_defense_date: 2008-04-03
etd_approval_date: 2008-06-26
etd_submission_date: 2008-04-06
etd_access_restriction: immediate
etd_patent_pending: FALSE
assigned_doi: doi:10.5195/pitt.etd.2011.6820
thesis_type: thesis
degree: MPH
committee: Martha Ann Terry, PhD (materry@pitt.edu) - Committee Chair
committee: James Butler, H (jbutler9@pitt.edu) - Committee Member
committee: Robin E. Grubs, PhD, CGC (rgrubs@pitt.edu) - Committee Member
etdurn: etd-04062008-165004
other_id: http://etd.library.pitt.edu/ETD/available/etd-04062008-165004/
other_id: etd-04062008-165004
citation:   Reeners, Kathryn Zella  (2008) A Comparison of School-Based and Clinic-Based Interventions for the Prevention and Control of Childhood Obesity.  Master's Thesis, University of Pittsburgh.    (Unpublished)  
document_url: http://d-scholarship-dev.library.pitt.edu/6820/1/KZReenersThesis.pdf