The school nurse is concerned about the lack of nutritional choices available in the food vending machines at the school. Which is the best tool to address this situation?

A) Food-Safe Schools Action Guide
B) Health Education Curriculum Analysis Tool
C) Improving the Health of Adolescents and Young Adults: A Guide for States and Communities
D) Making It Happen!


Ans: D
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Making It Happen! is a health tool that provides examples and success stories of 32 schools and school districts that have implemented innovative approaches to improve the nutritional quality of foods and beverages sold outside the school meals program. Food-Safe Schools Action Guide (FSSAG) helps schools work with Cooperative Extension, health departments, and families in efforts to make schools food-safe. Health Education Curriculum Analysis Tool helps schools, school districts, and other school personnel responsible for curricular redesign to analyze health education curricula on the basis of alignment with national health education standards and characteristics of effective health education curricula. Improving the Health of Adolescents and Young Adults: A Guide for States and Communities helps guide people and organizations through public health processes that address the 21 Critical Health Objectives identified in Healthy People 2010 for adolescents and young adults.

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