Childhood Obesity Addressed in CDC Research Publication

The September issue of Preventing Chronic Disease (PCD) is now available! Please visit our site at www.cdc.gov/pcd, where you will find downloadable articles and information on PCD. This issue includes a special focus on Ethical Issues In Interventions for Childhood Obesity.

Table of Contents ETHICAL ISSUES IN INTERVENTIONS FOR CHILDHOOD OBESITY   A91: Ethical Concerns Regarding Interventions to Prevent and Control Childhood Obesity   John Govea PEER REVIEWED   A92: Protecting Children From Harmful Food Marketing: Options for Local Government to Make a Difference   Jennifer L. Harris, Samantha K. Graff PEER REVIEWED   A93: Childhood Obesity: A Framework for Policy Approaches and Ethical Considerations   Rogan Kersh, Donna F. Stroup, Wendell C. Taylor PEER REVIEWED   A94: Childhood Obesity: Issues of Weight Bias   Reginald L. Washington PEER REVIEWED   A95: Children With Special Health Care Needs: Acknowledging the Dilemma of Difference in Policy Responses to Obesity   Paula M. Minihan, Aviva Must, Betsy Anderson, Barbara Popper, Beth Dworetzky PEER REVIEWED   A96: Public Policy Versus Individual Rights in Childhood Obesity Interventions: Perspectives From the Arkansas Experience With Act 1220 of 2003   Martha M. Phillips, Kevin Ryan, James M. Raczynski PEER REVIEWED   A97: A Question of Competing Rights, Priorities, and Principles: A Postscript to the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Symposium on the Ethics of Childhood Obesity Policy   Shiriki K. Kumanyika PEER REVIEWED   A98: The Ethical Basis for Promoting Nutritional Health in Public Schools in the United States   Patricia B. Crawford, Wendi Gosliner, Harvey Kayman PEER REVIEWED   A99: Ethical Family Interventions for Childhood Obesity   Mandy L. Perryman PEER REVIEWED   A100: Public Policy Versus Individual Rights and Responsibility: An Economist’s Perspective   Frank J. Chaloupka PEER REVIEWED   A101: State Requirements and Recommendations for School-Based Screenings for Body Mass Index or Body Composition, 2010   Jennifer Linchey, Kristine A. Madsen STUDENT PAPER CONTEST WINNER PEER REVIEWED   A102: A Common Denominator: Calculating Hospitalization Rates for Ambulatory Care–Sensitive Conditions in California   Camillia K. Lui, Steven P. Wallace   (Includes podcast interview with Camillia Lui, winner of the inaugural Preventing Chronic Disease Student Paper Competition)   A103: PCD’s First Annual Student Research Contest: Lui and Wallace Examine Hospitalization Rates for At-Risk Populations   Samuel F. Posner ORIGINAL RESEARCH PEER REVIEWED   A104: Vigorous Physical Activity Among Tweens, VERB Summer Scorecard Program, Lexington, Kentucky, 2004-2007   Moya L. Alfonso, Robert J. McDermott, Zachary Thompson, Carol A. Bryant, Anita H. Courtney, Jeffery A. Jones, Jenna L. Davis, Yiliang Zhu PEER REVIEWED   A105: Associations of American Indian Children’s Screen-Time Behavior With Parental Television Behavior, Parental Perceptions of Children’s Screen Time, and Media-Related Resources in the Home   Daheia J. Barr-Anderson, Jayne A. Fulkerson, Mary Smyth, John H. Himes, Peter J. Hannan, Bonnie Holy Rock, Mary Story PEER REVIEWED   A106: Parental Exposure to Carcinogens and Risk for Childhood Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia, Colombia, 2000-2005   Miguel Ángel Castro-Jiménez, Luis Carlos Orozco-Vargas PEER REVIEWED   A107: An Observational Study of Physical Activity in Parks in Asian and Pacific Islander Communities in Urban Honolulu, Hawaii, 2009   Jane J. Chung-Do, Elise Davis, Stephanie Lee, Yuka Jokura, Lehua Choy, Jay E. Maddock PEER REVIEWED   A108: Regional and Racial Differences in Smoking and Exposure to Secondhand Smoke: the Reasons for Geographic and Racial Differences in Stroke (REGARDS) Study   Leslie A. McClure, Heather L. Murphy, Jeffrey Roseman, George Howard, Ann Malarcher PEER REVIEWED   A109: Awareness, Treatment, and Control of Hypertension and Hypercholesterolemia Among Insured Residents of New York City, 2004   Quynh C. Nguyen, Elizabeth Needham Waddell, James C. Thomas, Sara L. Huston, Bonnie D. Kerker, R. Charon Gwynn PEER REVIEWED   A110: Awareness of Direct-to-Consumer Genetic Tests and Use of Genetic Tests Among Puerto Rican Adults, 2009   Ana Patricia Ortiz, Magdalena López, Libertad T. Flores, Marievelisse Soto-Salgado, Lila J. Finney Rutten, Ruby A. Serrano-Rodriguez, Bradford W. Hesse, Guillermo Tortolero-Luna PEER REVIEWED   A111: Strategies Implemented by 20 Local Tobacco Control Agencies to Promote Smoke-Free Recreation Areas, California, 2004-2007   Travis D. Satterlund, Diana Cassady, Jeanette Treiber, Cathy Lemp PEER REVIEWED   A112: Physician Visits and Colorectal Cancer Testing Among Medicare Enrollees in North Carolina and South Carolina, 2005   Anna P. Schenck, Carrie N. Klabunde, Joan L. Warren, Eric Jackson, Sharon Peacock, Pauline Lapin PEER REVIEWED   A113: Child Care Provider Training and a Supportive Feeding Environment in Child Care Settings in 4 States, 2003   Madeleine Sigman-Grant, Elizabeth Christiansen, George Fernandez, Janice Fletcher, Susan L. Johnson, Laurel Branen, Beth A. Price PEER REVIEWED   A114: Predictors of Repeated PSA Testing Among Black and White Men From the Maryland Cancer Survey, 2006   Yue Zhu, John D. Sorkin, Diane Dwyer, Carmela Groves, Eileen K. Steinberger COMMUNITY CASE STUDY PEER REVIEWED   A115: A Midpoint Process Evaluation of the Los Angeles Basin Racial and Ethnic Approaches to Community Health Across the US (REACH US) Disparities Center, 2007-2009   Annette E. Maxwell, Antronette K. Yancey, Mona AuYoung, Joyce J. Guinyard, Beth A. Glenn, Ritesh Mistry, William J. McCarthy, Jonathan E. Fielding, Paul A. Simon, Roshan Bastani BRIEF PEER REVIEWED   A116: Use of Indoor Tanning Devices by High School Students in the United States, 2009   Gery P. Guy, Eric Tai, Lisa C. Richardson TOOLS AND TECHNIQUES PEER REVIEWED   A117: Using a Concept Map as a Tool for Strategic Planning: The Healthy Brain Initiative   Lynda A. Anderson, Kristine L. Day, Anna E. Vandenberg