Reaching Staff, Parents, and Community Partners to Prevent Childhood Obesity in Head Start, 2008

Rachel A. Gooze, Cayce C. Hughes, Daniel M. Finkelstein and Robert C. Whitaker

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Abstract: This report details how Head Start—the largest federally funded early childhood education program in the U.S. that reaches one million children—uses a multilevel approach to prevent childhood obesity that involves staff, parents, and community partners.

Keywords: Childhood Obesity; Head Start; Low-Income Children; Community Partners (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 9
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