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Promoting health through prevention. Prevention depends in part on engaging in behaviors that support good health throughout one’s life. DACP’s work focuses on promoting health-enhancing behaviors, particularly in children, since research shows that a healthy childhood provides a strong foundation for a healthy life. DACP’s groundbreaking Project Viva examines how factors that occur during pregnancy or around the time of delivery affect common childhood conditions. Since 1999, 2,700 pregnant women have enrolled in this National Institutes of Health (NIH)-funded study. Investigators monitor mothers and children to determine how maternal nutrition, weight and lifestyle, preterm birth and infant growth relate to later conditions such as obesity, high blood pressure, intellectual development and asthma.
DACP’s Obesity Prevention Program tackles both the causes and consequences of the current epidemic of obesity. Investigators study how prenatal, childhood and adult experiences interact to contribute to obesity throughout a life span and create targeted interventions to promote healthy behaviors. One such intervention is the High Five Program for Kids, an NIH-funded program aimed at preventing obesity in young children. Based in pediatric practices, this program attempts to change parental behavior in order to change the child’s behavior, particularly in areas such as TV viewing and the consumption of sugary beverages and fast foods.
Project Viva - assessing the earliest influences on health and development
Matt Gillman
Obesity Prevention Program - Identifying causes and finding solutions to the obesity epidemic
Matt Gillman
High Five for Kids! - Intervening early to prevent obesity in young children
Elsie Taveras
Center for Child Health Care Studies - Finding new ways to improve child health
Tracy Lieu
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