public health policy

ACEs Wild: Flip the Brain Script on Adverse Childhood Experiences

March 19, 2013 by Amy Jussel 1 Comment

1-8-18 Update: Important new data on public health problems emerging with kids in this damaging era of immigration anxiety. I see this every week when I tutor at Americorps/Reading Partners and … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Emerging trends & STEM, Growing up too soon, Nutrition & Wellness, People Shaping Youth, Positive Picks, Pro-Social & Positive Picks, Shaping Youth Tagged With: ACE, Adverse Childhood Experiences, at risk youth, Bay Area Discovery Museum, Bayview Children's Health Center, black history, Center for Youth Wellness, change agents, childhood trauma, childrens health, Dr. Nadine Burke Harris, health effects of living in violence, immigration anxiety, infant health, kids and public health, kids stress, Nadine Burke, neuroplasticity, neuroscience, obesity prevention, Poverty, Preschool brain science, public health policy, The Poverty Clinic, toxic stressors, urban pediatrics, violence prevention, wellness, Youth-advocacy

Fast Forward Health Film Fest Oct 30, Celebrate Food Day 2012

October 24, 2012 by Amy Jussel 1 Comment

Oct 24, 2012 Food Day 2012! “I don’t need any finger-wagging salad munchers scolding me about junk food” ---no worries, not happening. But if you'd like to be more informed about the reason for … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Consumerism, Counter-marketing, EcoKids-Environment, Emerging trends & STEM, Growing up too soon, Marketing Shaping Youth, Media Literacy, Positive Picks, Pro-Social & Positive Picks, Shaping Youth Tagged With: big food, Ca Right to Know, CCFC, CSPI, Fast Food Nation, Fast Forward Health, film fest, Food Day, Food Day 2012, food for thought, Food Inc., food marketing kids, Food Politics, GMO, health literacy, HFCS Food Supply, Kids health, kids-food-products, label lingo, label literacy, Meatrix, media-literacy, Michele Simon, Morgan Spurlock, public health policy, sustainable eating, The Real Bears

COPPA: Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act Filing

July 1, 2010 by Amy Jussel 6 Comments

July 1, 2010 For those mumbling, "COPPA schmoppa, there goes Amy into policy wonk land, please translate media jargon into usable tidbits" I'll offer a few primers... What is COPPA? Why do we … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Advertising, Branding & Consumerism, Consumerism, Emerging trends & STEM, Growing up too soon, Interactive Games, Marketing Shaping Youth, Media Literacy, Mobile Media, Apps & Gaming, Nutrition & Wellness, Product Placement, Shaping Youth, Viral & Buzz Media Tagged With: adolescents, behavioral profiling kids, branding, bullying, CDD, center for digital democracy, childrens online privacy protection act, childrens rights, consumer protection, COPPA, COPPA compliance, datamining, digital ads.org, Digital ethics, ehavioral profiling, eModeration, Facebook ad targeting, FCC-Integrated-Marketing-Rules, FTC, Generation-Digital, Internet-Privacy, internet-safety, Jeff-Chester, kids-advertising-regulations, kids-media, licensed characters targeting kids, my data is my data, opt outs, personal information, predatory marketing, privacy breaches, privacy rights, public health policy, regulations, regulatory measures, safe chat, Targeting Kids, tweens, U13, unauthorized tracking, Youth rights, Youth-advocacy

Sexualization Summit: Save the Date Oct 22, 2010 NYC

May 17, 2010 by Amy Jussel 22 Comments

May 17, 2010 As irony would have it, on Thurs, May 13, in New York City, a small tribe of thought leaders convened on how to best address rampant sexualization of youth in media and marketing. Each … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Advertising, Branding & Consumerism, Consumerism, Damaging Drek, Emerging trends & STEM, Growing up too soon, Marketing Shaping Youth, Media Literacy, Misogyny & Racism, Sexualization & Body Image, Shaping Youth, Stereotypes & Diversity, Vapid Values, Viral & Buzz Media Tagged With: 10-22-10, 2010, 7 year olds, academic rockstars, adolescence, adults behaving badly, All the Scholar Ladies, APA sexualization study, appearance cues, behavior, beyonce, boy toys, Bratz, children, Consuming kids, corporate pedophilia, Damaging Drek, dancing, dereon divas, desensitized, desire, Dr. Robyn, eating-disorders, emotional health, Empowering girls, harm, HGHW, hostile takeover of childhood, HR4925, Hunter College, hypersexualized, Jean Kilbourne, Kids, kidvid, Killing Us Softly 4, lapdancing, Lyn Mikel-Brown, media influence, mental health, Miley Cyrus, Oct 22, Packaging-Girlhood, PigTail Pals, pole dancing, poptarts, Pornification, preteens, public health policy, Pussycat Dolls, Robyn-Silverman, Sesame Streetwalkers, sexploitation, sexual-health-teens, sexualized childhood, Single Ladies, Susan Linn, Teen Choice Awards, true child, tweens, women's media center, Womens'

Will California’s New Menu Labeling Help Kids’ Health?

October 1, 2008 by Amy Jussel 8 Comments

Congrats, wellness crusaders, the L.A. Times reports California is officially the first state in the nation to enact menu labeling policy for calorie count info on menu boards and food displays of … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Advertising, Branding & Consumerism, Consumerism, Emerging trends & STEM, Marketing Shaping Youth, Media Literacy, Nutrition & Wellness, Sexualization & Body Image, Shaping Youth Tagged With: American Cancer Society, Appetite for Profit, California Center Public Health Advocacy, California menu labeling law, California menu labeling policy, CCPHA, childrens nutrition, CSPI, fast food, fast food labeling, FDA standards, food police, franchises, junk-food, Kids, Kids health, kids nutrition, menu labeling, Migden, mindless eating, nutrition facts, Padilla, public health policy, restaurant chains, SB 1420, SB1420, Senate Bill 1420, teens, tweens

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