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Overcoming Challenges Resulting From COVID-19: New York State’s Creating Healthy Schools and Communities Initiative
COMMENTARY — Volume 17 — July 9, 2020
PEER REVIEWED
The Creating Healthy Schools and Communities initiative involves 6 strategies, 3 on the part of schools, and 3 on the part of communities. School-based strategies include local wellness policies, comprehensive school physical activity program, and the school nutrition environment. Community-based strategies involve healthy access to food, food standards and policies, and complete streets policy and implementation.
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Schematic diagram of the Creating Healthy Schools and Communities initiative, New York State Department of Health, 2015–2020.
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