A Special Focus on Planning for Healthy Schools

Obesity is a mayor epidemic among American children, and while recent nutrition campaigns may have had some impact stemming the tide of poor health in the country’s youngest generation (See e.g., http://goo.gl/dxwVla), there is much concern that the automobile oriented suburban environments in which most children live are causing them to grow up less healthy than previous generations. This summer JPER will publish a special issue guest edited by Nisha Botchwey, PhD, MPH of Georgia Institute of Technology’s School of City and Regional Planning, which focuses on the role of planning in promoting a new generation of policy and design for "healthy schools." Three of the issues articles are now available online at no cost for the next month through SAGE’s e-portal.

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