| From the Prevention Institute: Recognizing that local decisions such as community design and product availability can influence eating and activity behaviors, many local jurisdictions are working to reshape their schools, communities and institutions. Local policy has been a pivotal catalyst in addressing public health challenges as diverse as violence prevention and tobacco control. Local policies contribute to meaningful environmental change that spread to different jurisdictions and build support for state and federal policies that influence behavioral norms. The Local Policy Database will catalogue promising policies in nutrition and activity to: 1. Provide local policy makers, health advocates and the media with concrete examples of what’s being tried / adopted in other locales2. Demonstrate the range of physical activity / nutrition-related policies that are emerging, 3. Highlight promising policy activities that are occurring at the local level 4. Facilitate networking among local policymakers and advocates around successes and challenges. Prevention Institute will collect policies through soliciting key informants and monitoring public documents.
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