HEALTHY
FOODS HAWAI'I
(Part
of the Healthy Living in the Pacific- Healthy Pacific Child Program
project)
Principal Investigator: Rachel
Novotny, PhD
The Healthy Stores strategies
being used in the Apache Healthy Stores
and
Baltimore Healthy Stores projects will
inform the store-based component of a new project, Healthy
Living in the Pacific- Healthy Pacific Child Program (HLPI-HPCP).
This four-year, multi-institutional project seeks to improve
nutritional status and prevent overweight among children in
the US-affiliated Pacific Islands (Hawaii, Republic of the
Marshall Islands, Guam, Republic of Palau, Federated States
of Micronesia, American Samoa, and Commonwealth of the Northern
Mariana Islands) through school, community, and store-based
approaches.
Led by Rachel Novotny, PhD, of the University
of Hawaii, the project will also involve researchers and health
experts in nutrition, public health, epidemiology, and anthropology
from other universities, community colleges, and departments
of health and non-profit agencies. Joel Gittelsohn, PhD, will
lead the Healthy Foods Hawai'i
project as part of this multi-disciplinary effort.
Specific objectives of HLPI-HPCP are to:
- Design and test dietary assessment instruments to be
used to target, develop and evaluate nutrition related intervention
programs for children.
-
Develop and test a Healthy Foods intervention
program centered on food stores and local food systems
to improve production, preparation, sales and consumption
of healthy foods by Pacific Islander children and their
families.
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