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Jones W, Lao S, Lilly S, Waters A. 2015. Evaluation of the Carol M. White Physical Education Program: Final report. Washington, DC: U.S. Department of Education, Policy and Program Studies Service, 95 pp.

Annotation: This report examines how the Carol M. White Physical Education Program (PEP) projects were administered and implemented under revised regulations to align relevant program objectives with the Let's Move! Initiative. The report focuses on projects funded by fiscal year 2010 grant awards, the first cohort of grantees to implement projects under the revised PEP. Contents include a program overview, study purpose and design, a description of PEP projects, project implementation, new PEP priorities, project challenges, and summary and lessons learned. Topics include the role of community partnerships and grantee experiences with collecting and using body mass index data.

Contact: U.S. Department of Education, Policy and Program Studies Service, Washington, DC Web Site: http://www2.ed.gov/about/offices/list/opepd/ppss/index.html Available from the website.

Keywords: Prevention programs, Body height, Body weight, Data collection, Federal grants, Federal programs, Grants management, Measures, Obesity, Physical education, Program evaluation, Public private partnerships

Systems Development Project Staff, [School of Public Health, University of Minnesota]. 1968. Height and weight charts and tables. Minneapolis, MN: [University of Minnesota, School of Public Health], Systems Development Project, 51 pp. (Study series no.: 8-9 (1b))

Annotation: The charts in this report provide standards of reference for body weight and height for boys and girls raged 0 to 252 months, in 42 separate age categories. The charts are further divided by race into: White, Black, Other, and Total, plus Hispanic as an ethnic break. both height and weight growth curves and percentiles values are reported for each age, sex, and race. The number of observations per line determined the number of percentile values reported. A list of references is suggested as background information on indices of malnutrition and for an explanation of the choice of multiple measures, particularly those of height and weight. This paper is part of the documentation and assessment of the effect of P.L. 89-97, Title II. [Funded by the Maternal and Child Health Bureau]

Keywords: Adolescent health programs, Body height, Body weight, Child health programs, Children and Youth Projects, Federal MCH programs, Nutrition assessment, Nutrition disorders, Nutrition disorders, Statistics, Title V programs

Systems Development Project Staff, [School of Public Health, University of Minnesota]. 1968. Height by weight tables. Minneapolis, MN: [University of Minnesota, School of Public Health], Systems Development Project, 29 pp. (Study series no.: 8-9 (1c))

Annotation: The tables in this report show the height and weight proportions of the children reported in this study for the purposes of determining the nutritional status of children being served by the Children and Youth Program. The tables are broken by sex into five separate age categories and by race into: White, Black and other. A total for each age and sex regardless of racial grouping is also shown. The tables as shown are actually summaries of several tables calculated for smaller age intervals. The total number of children reported in each tables ranges from 16 to 3703 depending on the subgrouping. This paper is part of the documentation and assessment of the effect of P.L. 89-97, Title II. [Funded by the Maternal and Child Health Bureau]

Keywords: Adolescent health programs, Body height, Body height, Body weight, Body weight, Child health programs, Children and Youth Projects, Federal MCH programs, Nutrition assessment, Statistics, Title V programs

Woodbury RM. 1921. Statures and weights of children under six years of age. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office, 117 pp. (Children's Bureau publication; no. 87; Community child-welfare series; no. 3)

Oppenheimer, E. 1921. Average heights and weights of children under six years of age. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office, 4 pp. (Children's Bureau publication; no. 84; Community child-welfare series; no. 2)

Annotation: This document provides tables of average heights and weights of children under six years of age that were collected during the 1918 Children's Year "weighing and measuring test" campaign, designed to focus attention upon the welfare of children. It is a publication of the U.S. Department of Labor, Children's Bureau.

Contact: Maternal and Child Health Library at Georgetown University, E-mail: [email protected] Web Site: https://www.mchlibrary.org Available from the website.

Keywords: Body height, Body weight, Young children

U.S. Children's Bureau. 1920. Children's year: A brief summary of work done and suggestions for follow-up work. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office, 20 pp. (Children's Bureau publication; no. 67; Children's year follow-up series; no. 4)

Annotation: This document provides an overview of the Children's Year Campaign, inaugurated in 1918, the results of that campaign, and the plan for follow up activities. Topics include: implementation of the Weighing and Measuring Test, the Recreation drive, and the Back-to-School drive; the conference on child welfare standards; and the protection of maternity, infancy, working children, and children born out of wedlock. Follow up plans cover these topics: better birth registration, the establishment of health stations, public provision of recreation, community study of local needs and resources, and study of present laws and standards of child welfare. It is a publication of the U.S. Department of Labor, Children's Bureau.

Contact: Maternal and Child Health Library at Georgetown University, E-mail: [email protected] Web Site: https://www.mchlibrary.org Available from the website.

Keywords: Body height, Body weight, Child labor, Child welfare, Children, Recreation, School attendance, War

U.S. Children's Bureau. 1918. April and May weighing and measuring test. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office, 3 v. (Children's Bureau publication; no. 38; Children's year leaflet ; no. 2)

Annotation: This leaflet provides guidelines to communities for how to implement the Children's Year Weighing and Measuring Test. Part I, Suggestions to Local Committees, includes suggestions for how to secure the cooperation of organizations concerned with child welfare, how to organize subcommittees, methods of carrying out the test, how to avoid the spread of contagious disease, and how to secure examiners. Part 2, Suggestions to Examiners, provides guidelines for weighing, measuring and filling out the Record Card. Part III describes follow-up work with (1) children shown by the test to be underweight; (2) ways to secure public interest in the report of the test; and (3) community child-saving measures. These include the employment of public-health nurses, the enlistment of home health volunteers, the establishment of infant-welfare stations where mothers can obtain medical advice and supervision in the care of themselves and their babies, the provision of confinement care, complete birth registration, community studies of infant mortality, the establishment of divisions of child hygiene in state and local departments of health, safeguarding the milk supply for children, and providing courses in child care. A suggested form for the permanent record card is included. It is a publication of the U.S. Department of Labor Children's Bureau.

Contact: Maternal and Child Health Library at Georgetown University, E-mail: [email protected] Web Site: https://www.mchlibrary.org Available from the website.

Keywords: Body height, Body weight, Child health programs, Local MCH programs

   

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