Health System

IOM Workshop. The Prevention of Childhood Obesity: Understanding the Influences of Marketing, Media, and Family Dynamics You can see this from your desktop.

Active Living By Design Active Living by Design is a national program of The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and is a part of the UNC School of Public Health in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. The program will establish and evaluate innovative approaches to increase physical activity through community design, public policies and communications strategies.

AARP Gives Republican Medicare Bill Its Blessing (washingtonpost.com) It’s interesting to see how influential AARP is in health matters in DC. They seem to be the big gun. It’s also worth looking at their Web site. They’ve got a growing constituency and many interest points with which to form connections.

Is Obesity A Disease? (washingtonpost.com) Good question.