Browsing by Author "Gortmaker, Steven"
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Assessment of a Districtwide Policy on Availability of Competitive Beverages in Boston Public Schools, Massachusetts, 2013
Mozaffarian, Rebecca S.; Gortmaker, Steven L.; Kenney, Erica L.; Carter, Jill E.; Howe, M. Caitlin Westfall; Reiner, Jennifer F.; Cradock, Angie L. (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 2016)Introduction: Competitive beverages are drinks sold outside of the federally reimbursable school meals program and include beverages sold in vending machines, a la carte lines, school stores, and snack bars. Competitive ... -
The cost of a primary care-based childhood obesity prevention intervention
Wright, Davene R; Taveras, Elsie M; Gillman, Matthew W; Horan, Christine M; Hohman, Katherine H; Gortmaker, Steven L; Prosser, Lisa A (BioMed Central, 2014)Background: United States pediatric guidelines recommend that childhood obesity counseling be conducted in the primary care setting. Primary care-based interventions can be effective in improving health behaviors, but also ... -
Dynamics of Obesity and Chronic Health Conditions Among Children and Youth
Van Cleave, Jeanne; Gortmaker, Steven L.; Perrin, James Marc (American Medical Association (AMA), 2010)Context: Rates of obesity and other childhood chronic conditions have increased over recent decades. Patterns of how conditions change over time have not been widely examined. Objective: To evaluate change in prevalence ... -
Evaluating the Impact of the Healthy Beverage Executive Order for City Agencies in Boston, Massachusetts, 2011–2013
Cradock, Angie L.; Kenney, Erica L.; McHugh, Anne; Conley, Lisa; Mozaffarian, Rebecca S.; Reiner, Jennifer F.; Gortmaker, Steven L. (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 2015)Introduction: Intake of sugar-sweetened beverages (SSBs) is associated with negative health effects. Access to healthy beverages may be promoted by policies such as the Healthy Beverage Executive Order (HBEO) established ... -
Identifying Sources of Children’s Consumption of Junk Food in Boston After-School Programs, April–May 2011
Kenney, Erica L.; Austin, S. Bryn; Cradock, Angie L.; Giles, Catherine M.; Lee, Rebekka M.; Davison, Kirsten K.; Gortmaker, Steven L. (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 2014)Introduction: Little is known about how the nutrition environment in after-school settings may affect children’s dietary intake. We measured the nutritional quality of after-school snacks provided by programs participating ... -
Informal Training in Staff Networks to Support Dissemination of Health Promotion Programs
Ramanadhan, Shoba; Wiecha, Jean L.; Gortmaker, Steven L.; Emmons, Karen Maria; Viswanath, Kasisomayajula (SAGE Publications, 2010) -
Payment Restrictions for Prescription Drugs under Medicaid
Soumerai, Stephen Bertram; Avorn, Jerry Lewis; Ross-Degnan, Dennis; Gortmaker, Steven L. (New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM/MMS), 1987)In an attempt to contain costs, 27 Medicaid programs have implemented patient-level payment limits for medications, but the effects of these restrictions on quality of care, costs, and health status remain largely unknown. ... -
Physical Activity and Enjoyment: Measurement, Evaluation, and Theory
Barnett, Elizabeth (2016-04-25)Childhood engagement in physical activity improves health and contributes to the sustainment of physical activity in adulthood. My dissertation research broadens scholarship by disentangling the effects of sports- vs. ... -
Play Across Boston: A Community Initiative to Reduce Disparities in Access to After-School Physical Activity Programs for Inner-City Youths
Hannon, Cynthia; Cradock, Angie Lynn; Gortmaker, Steven L.; Wiecha, Jean; El Ayadi, Alison Marie; Keefe, Linda; Harris, Alfreda (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 2006)Background: In 1999, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) funded Play Across Boston to address disparities in access to physical activity facilities and programs for Boston, Mass, inner-city youths. ... -
Racial differences in the built environment—body mass index relationship? A geospatial analysis of adolescents in urban neighborhoods
Duncan, Dustin T; Castro, Marcia C.de; Gortmaker, Steven L.; Aldstadt, Jared; Melly, Steven John; Bennett, Gary G (BioMed Central, 2012)Background: Built environment features of neighborhoods may be related to obesity among adolescents and potentially related to obesity-related health disparities. The purpose of this study was to investigate spatial ... -
Redrawing the US Obesity Landscape: Bias-Corrected Estimates of State-Specific Adult Obesity Prevalence
Ward, Zachary J.; Long, Michael W.; Resch, Stephen C.; Gortmaker, Steven L.; Cradock, Angie L.; Giles, Catherine; Hsiao, Amber; Wang, Y. Claire (Public Library of Science, 2016)Background: State-level estimates from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) underestimate the obesity epidemic because they use self-reported height and weight. We describe a novel bias-correction method ... -
School-Based Programs: Lessons Learned from CATCH, Planet Health, and Not-On-Tobacco
Franks, Adele L; Kelder, Steven H; Dino, Geri A; Horn, Kimberly A; Gortmaker, Steven L.; Wiecha, Jean L; Simoes, Eduardo J (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 2007)Establishing healthy habits in youth can help prevent many chronic health problems later in life that are attributable to unhealthy eating, sedentary lifestyle, and overweight. For this reason, many public health professionals ... -
Social and Economic Consequences of Overweight in Adolescence and Young Adulthood
Gortmaker, Steven L.; Must, Aviva; Perrin, James Marc; Sobol, Arthur Martin; Dietz, William H. (New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM/MMS), 1993) -
US States’ Childhood Obesity Surveillance Practices and Recommendations for Improving Them, 2014–2015
Blondin, Kelly J.; Giles, Catherine M.; Cradock, Angie L.; Gortmaker, Steven L.; Long, Michael W. (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 2016)Introduction: Routine collection, analysis, and reporting of data on child height, weight, and body mass index (BMI), particularly at the state and local levels, are needed to monitor the childhood obesity epidemic, plan ... -
Using School Staff Members to Implement a Childhood Obesity Prevention Intervention in Low-Income School Districts: the Massachusetts Childhood Obesity Research Demonstration (MA-CORD Project), 2012–2014
Blaine, Rachel E.; Franckle, Rebecca L.; Ganter, Claudia; Falbe, Jennifer; Giles, Catherine; Criss, Shaniece; Kwass, Jo-Ann; Land, Thomas; Gortmaker, Steven L.; Chuang, Emmeline; Davison, Kirsten K. (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 2017)Introduction: Although evidence-based interventions to prevent childhood obesity in school settings exist, few studies have identified factors that enhance school districts’ capacity to undertake such efforts. We describe ... -
Validity of a practitioner-administered observational tool to measure physical activity, nutrition, and screen time in school-age programs
Lee, Rebekka M; Emmons, Karen M; Okechukwu, Cassandra A; Barrett, Jessica L; Kenney, Erica L; Cradock, Angie L; Giles, Catherine M; deBlois, Madeleine E; Gortmaker, Steven L (BioMed Central, 2014)Background: Nutrition and physical activity interventions have been effective in creating environmental changes in afterschool programs. However, accurate assessment can be time-consuming and expensive as initiatives are ... -
Withdrawing Payment for Nonscientific Drug Therapy
Soumerai, Stephen Bertram; Ross-Degnan, Dennis; Gortmaker, Steven L.; Avorn, Jerry Lewis (American Medical Association (AMA), 1990)ittle is known about the effect on clinical decision making of nonreimbursement for ineffective medical technologies. Using a time-series design, we studied the effects of cessation of government payment for 12 categories ...