Children's Obesity Action Network
State Obesity Fact Sheets
The State Fact Sheets provide the most recent national and state-based data regarding childhood overweight and obesity prevalence through data collected in 2007 by the National Survey of Children’s Health and analysis by the CAHMI’s Data Resource Center for Child and Adolescent Health (www.childhealthdata.org). These sheets offer information specific to your state on a variety of policy issues impacting (and being impacted by) childhood obesity such as:
1) Overall prevalence rates compared with other states;
2) Disparities and variances by race, insurance, income level;
3) What each state is doing at the legislative level to combat childhood obesity; and
4) What grant and programmatic opportunities are available in your state to enhance community involvement and improve health outcomes for kids.
All policy data was provided by the annual report F as in Fat: How Obesity Policies are Failing in America published by the Trust for America’s Health.
