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This Action Guide is intended to help local public health agencies and community partners identify strategies and action steps that will assist them in collaborating with schools as partners to increase physical activity, improve nutrition and implement comprehensive health education for students.
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2013.
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Health and well-being are shaped by many different factors. Among these factors are health-related behaviors, such as, nutrition, physical activity, sleep, social support and stress. These behaviors affect our sense of well-being and significantly influence our risk of many common chronic diseases. Maintaining a healthy weight is an important part of good health. Research indicates that being either underweight or overweight is associated with poor...
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2011
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The Prenatal Plus program is a special program for pregnant women on Medicaid that provides case management, nutrition counseling, and psychosocial services to pregnant women who are at risk for negative maternal and infant health outcomes due to lifestyle, behavioral, and non-medical parts of a woman's life that could affect her pregnancy.