The program also emphasizes reducing health disparities related to race/ethnicity, socioeconomic status, geography, gender, age, disability, and other factors.    

Michigan's NPAO Program encourages implementation of local and statewide interventions based on the Social-Ecological Model, a framework that takes a more holistic approach to the obesity problem, looking at all levels of influence (societal, community, organizational, interpersonal, and individual) that can be addressed to support long-term, healthful eating and physical activity choices. This "systems approach" to overweight and obesity helps communities to develop interventions that include a wide range of individual and institutional stakeholders.           

Surveillance Documents 

Overweight and Obesity in Michigan: Surveillance Update 2011 

 

Obesity Surveillance Data Briefs 

The Overweight and Obesity in Michigan Surveillance Report contains available data on obesity and its associated risk factors in Michigan and the United States. The following are the individual chapters:

 1. Physical Activity chapter contains surveillance data on Physical Inactivity, Inadequate Physical Activity, Television Viewing (Youth) and Computer/Video Game Use (Youth).
2. Nutrition chapter  contains data on Inadequate Fruit and Vegetable Consumption, Fast Food (Adults) and Sugar-Sweetened Beverages (Youth). 
3. Obesity chapter contains surveillance data on prevalence of overweight and obesity in adults, youth and children and health complications associated with obesity (Adults).  
4. Breastfeeding chapter contains surveillance data on breastfeeding initiation, duration, and barriers.