儿童肥胖与健康
坏习惯很难改掉. Children who grow up without support for healthy lifestyle options are at significantly increased risk for chronic diseases and other negative health consequences in adulthood. 从抑郁, 2型糖尿病, and cardiovascular disease to orthopedic problems and high blood pressure, our children are vulnerable until effective interventions are in place. A preventive approach can provide the greatest return on investment and result in longer lasting effects.
ICF’s team of nationally and globally recognized health experts are helping identify effective prevention strategies by evaluating programs, 规定, and 政策 and sharing those findings to benefit other initiatives. Our 工作 across the federal health space reflects decades of experience in collecting reliable data and using insights from our analyses to advance important public health missions. And our contributions to smoking cessation serve as a model for interventions that can effect positive 行为al change, 甚至改变文化规范.
ICF’s data-driven approach has already led to a better 理解ing of the nutritional, 体育活动, and health 行为s of the nation’s youth and adults and the environments in which they live, 工作, 和玩耍. We will continue to identify and promote best practices to help tackle obesity comprehensively and systematically through evaluation of obesity prevention 政策 and programs, 行为监测, and creation of educational messages and materials.
程序 & 政策 Design, Support, and Evaluation
As efforts have intensified to control and prevent obesity through 行为al and environmental programs and 政策, so have questions about which strategies are most effective. 通过造型的, 过程, 以及注重结果的评估, ICF provides policy makers and practitioners with the evidence they need to chart strategic directions and to refine programs for curbing the obesity epidemic. Our research and evaluation studies are designed to fill a critical need for increasing the evidence base for tested solutions and guiding the design and implementation of effective programs and 政策.
调查 & 监测研究
ICF has conducted some of the most-cited surveillance studies of children and adolescents. These studies provide information on the 体育活动 and fitness of children and adolescents, 他们的健康行为, 以及他们的营养摄入量. They have helped policy makers and program planners determine the magnitude of the obesity problem, 确定有风险的people群, plan and evaluate programs and interventions, 发现流行病的变化, 激发新的研究.
研究 & 测量
The obesity epidemic has sparked new research and interventions to reverse and prevent obesity across the nation. In response to the growing need for valid and reliable measures to track changes in health, 行为, 政策, and the environment for healthy eating and 积极的生活, ICF has engaged world-renowned experts to develop scientifically-based obesity prevention measures that span the socioecological continuum.
ICF helped develop the first set of community- based measures that local communities can use to plan and monitor environmental and policy changes for obesity prevention.
健康的通信 & 社会营销
三十年来, ICF has 工作ed with clients to provide the public with trustworthy health information that is easy to access, 理解, 和使用. Our 工作 helps health officials and health care providers design and disseminate useful information related to healthy eating, 积极的生活, and the chronic diseases and other health problems that can result from obesity.
我们的专家
Passionate, creative, and experienced
