Los Angeles County
Department of Public Health
Maternal, Child, and Adolescent Health Programs
600 S. Commonwealth Ave., 8th Floor
Los Angeles, CA 90005
Tel: (213) 639-6400
FAX: (213) 639-1034
Created by The Nemours Foundation's Center for Children's Health
Media, TeensHealth and KidsHealth provide teens and families
with accurate, up-to-date, and jargon-free health information
they can use. KidsHealth has been on the Web since 1995 and
is the largest and most visited site on the Web providing doctor-approved
health information about children from before birth through
adolescence. KidsHealth has been accessed by over 170,000,000
visitors.
Youthealth provides fun and responsible child-centred health
education and health promotion to children and young people,
combining the richness and power of multimedia with the educational
strengths of peer-based learning. Youthealth aims to empower
children and young people to improve health and build self-esteem
and resiliency.
CDC's Division of Nutrition and Physical Activity (DNPA) takes
a public health approach to address the role of nutrition and
physical activity in improving the public's health and preventing
and controlling chronic diseases. The scope of DNPA activities
includes epidemiological and behavioral research, surveillance,
training and education, intervention development, health promotion
and leadership, policy and environmental change, communication
and social marketing, and partnership development.
Team Nutrition is an initiative of the USDA Food and Nutrition Service to support the Child Nutrition Programs through training and technical assistance for foodservice, nutrition education for children and their caregivers, and school and community support for healthy eating and physical activity.
Prenatal & Postnatal
