Training Child Care Inspectors to Deliver Health Messaging: A Quality Improvement Pilot Project
| Autor: | Paula Peirce, Mondi Mason, Charlotte V Farewell, Michele Shimomura, Jini Puma, Megan Harms |
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| Rok vydání: | 2018 |
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medicine.medical_specialty
Nursing (miscellaneous) Quality management Pilot Projects Healthy eating Health Promotion 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine Active living medicine Humans 030212 general & internal medicine Early childhood Child Care Child Child care 030505 public health business.industry Public Health Environmental and Occupational Health Child Day Care Centers medicine.disease Quality Improvement Obesity Health promotion Child Preschool Family medicine 0305 other medical science business Community intervention |
| Zdroj: | Health Promotion Practice. 21:188-197 |
| ISSN: | 1552-6372 1524-8399 |
| Popis: | Early childhood obesity is at epidemic proportions. Early child care providers have a unique opportunity to instill healthy eating and active living behaviors in children that can foster lifelong health. Academic–community partnerships that involve collaborations between child care centers, local public health departments, and universities provide one avenue to strengthening healthy eating and active living–related knowledge and skills among early child care providers. This quality improvement pilot intervention, titled Healthy Child Care Makes a Healthy Start, is one example of this type of collaboration. This quality improvement pilot project consisted of two complementary intervention components. Inspectors were trained to cofacilitate a strategic planning process with university researchers to help providers implement healthy eating and active living–related policy, system, and environment changes in their child care homes and centers. An average of five changes were implemented in participating child care locations. Inspectors also received training on health-related best practices and delivered 1-minute health messages to child care providers during routine inspection visits. This type of innovative partnership has the potential to leverage a currently existing relationship between child care providers and licensing and regulation inspectors and shift the relationship to include dissemination and implementation of health messaging in child care center and home settings. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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