Active for Life™ (AFL), a social marketing campaign supported by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) and planned and implemented by AARP was created to help sedentary midlif…
Famiglia, Attività fisica, Nutrizione (FAN), was a community-based social marketing initiative in Canton Ticino, Switzerland aimed at reducing obesity in children ages 6 to 12. Be…
In 2007, a Health and Lifestyle survey in Hull, UK showed a high prevalence of overweight and obese individuals in the adult population. While weight management services were avai…
Operating under the Denver Regional Council of Governments Way to Go program, Schoolpool is a program designed to get students to and from school via carpool, mass transit, walkin…
Bike Smarts, a public education program in British Columbia, was introduced at Lochside Elementary School in 1996 as a way to educate students about bicycle safety and encourage t…
In 2009, the Office on Women’s Health (OWH) launched the Best Bones Forever! program, encouraging girls aged 9 to 14 to improve their bone health through eating foods rich in calc…
In an attempt to reduce the use of individual motor vehicles the Municipality of Århus created a plan to encourage residents to use methods of sustainable transportation such as b…
In 1996, the Agita São Paulo program was launched to help combat the effects of low physical activity in the Brazilian state, particularly among lower income residents, by encoura…
The GCC Active and Safe Routes to School program was brought to life by Greenest City, a Toronto-based non-profit known for addressing a variety of environmental issues through lo…
First implemented in 1997, Green Communities Canada’s national Active and Safe Routes to School Program (GCC’s ASRTS) saw great initial success, though over time, individual schoo…