City of Baltimore - File #: 06-0230R

• File #: 06-0230R
• Version: 0
• Name: Organizational Hearing - Baltimore City Council Task Force on Childhood Obesity - A Call to Action
• Type: City Council Resolution
• Status: Adopted
• File created: 10/30/2006
• In control: City Council
• Final action: 10/30/2006
• Title: Organizational Hearing - Baltimore City Council Task Force on Childhood Obesity - A Call to Action FOR the purpose of calling together school, preschool, and after-school personnel, health care providers, parents, community groups, faith-based organizations, and other stakeholders in a campaign to address the critical problem of childhood obesity by creating a partnership across sectors with the mission to identify the specific roles that must be undertaken to prevent the onset of childhood obesity, to formulate a plan to combat the escalation of the problem among those children at-risk, and to devise a medical and behavioral treatment model to treat the diseases caused by this epidemic and to prevent the onset of sickness in the target population.
• Sponsors: Agnes Welch, Robert Curran, President Young, Paula Johnson Branch, James B. Kraft, Keiffer Mitchell, Mary Pat Clarke, Edward Reisinger, Rochelle Spector, Stephanie Rawlings Blake, Kenneth Harris, President Dixon, Helen L. Holton, Belinda Conaway
• Indexes: Childhood Obesity, Resolution

Date	Ver.	Action By	Action	Result
11/2/2006	0	The City Council	Referred for a Report
10/30/2006	0	City Council	Introduced
10/30/2006	0	City Council	Adopted

* WARNING: THIS IS AN UNOFFICIAL, INTRODUCTORY COPY OF THE BILL.
THE OFFICIAL COPY CONSIDERED BY THE CITY COUNCIL IS THE FIRST READER COPY.
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CITY OF BALTIMORE
COUNCIL BILL R
(Resolution)

Introduced by: Councilmember Welch


A RESOLUTION ENTITLED

A COUNCIL RESOLUTION concerning
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Organizational Hearing - Baltimore City Council Task Force on Childhood Obesity - A Call to Action

FOR the purpose of calling together school, preschool, and after-school personnel, health care providers, parents, community groups, faith-based organizations, and other stakeholders in a campaign to address the critical problem of childhood obesity by creating a partnership across sectors with the mission to identify the specific roles that must be undertaken to prevent the onset of childhood obesity, to formulate a plan to combat the escalation of the problem among those children at-risk, and to devise a medical and behavioral treatment model to treat the diseases caused by this epidemic and to prevent the onset of sickness in the target population.
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In a research brief published in August 2004, the National Institute for Health Care Management (NIHCM) Foundation reported that childhood obesity in the U.S. is threatening child health gains made over the past 3 decades. A study by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) concluded that poor diet and inactivity are close to overtaking cigarette smoking as the leading cause of preventable death and that at this rate the current generation of children will not live as long as their parents.

The prevalence of childhood obesity in the United States, i...