LA+7

1a) Policies: The Child Fitness Tax Credit  The //Eat Well and Be Active Educational Toolkit// is designed to help health and education specialists teach children and adults about healthy eating and physical activity. • The Government of Canada and Food & Consumer Products of Canada are working together on the //Nutrition Facts Education Campaign//, an initiative that will give Canadians the information they need to make informed food choices to maintain and improve their health. • //Canada's Physical Activity Guides// provide information on how Canadians can integrate healthy physical activity in their daily lives. • Setting targets for physical activity for children and youth, in partnership with provinces and territories, and measuring progress against targets through surveillance. • Funding to support a range of community-based programs and services such as the Canadian

b) Indirect affect-Diabetes Strategy, Aboriginal Diabetes Initiative, Healthy Living Fund, Aboriginal Head Start,the Community Action Program for Children, Canada Prenatal Nutrition Program, the Maternal Child Health Program and renewal of the food mail program for northern communities. - Committing to work with provincial and territorial governments, and other sectors, on //Curbing// //Childhood Obesity: An FPT Framework for Action to Promote Healthy Weights // -Setting targets for physical activity for children and youth, in partnership with provinces and territories, and measuring progress against targets through surveillance. - Funding to support a range of community-based programs and services such as the Canadian

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">c)-school based initiatives: eliminating junk food from vending machines, offering healthy eating programs, offering active entertainment reward incentives for families/students who commit to initiative <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">-afterschool activities: YMCA, community centers <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">d.) One main gap is the inconsistency of school based policies to implement health eating. Though many schools offer healthy alternatives, the degree to which healthy eating strategies are implemented remain inconsistent. Ex. One school may take out vending machines, where as another school may implement a healthy lunch base program <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">Another gap is the elimination of physical education due to the lack of funding which increases the incidence of childhood obesity === 2. Key Determinants: [|Income and Social Status], [|Social Support Networks] , [|Education and Literacy] , [|Social Environments] , [|Physical Environments] , [|Personal Health Practices and Coping Skills] , [|Healthy Child Development] , [|Health Services] , [|Gender] , [|Culture] ===

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">3. Though nursing is important to all steps in the policy design process, as advocate and expert this would pertain most importantly to set priorities (raising awareness to importance of PE, creating discontent among the public), uncovering the evidence (impacts both short and longterm, what experts say about lack of PE in children) and communicating the policy (involving stakeholders in distributing the policy, raising awareness to new policy), address the barriers (increase driving forces), evaluate the outcome (involve further research, survey of children and parents).