Handouts for Patients and their Families:

Download these brochures as PDFs or contact us directly to receive FREE hard copies.

• Building a Healthier Tomorrow - Information about what you can do to make a neighborhood walkable and build health into community projects and plans.
  

• Parents Make Choices- Why parents can choose to walk to school with their child.

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• Parents Make Choices + Organizing a Walking School Bus - Why parents can choose to walk to school with their child + how to organize a walking school bus + how to create a more walkable community.

    (Top front page photograph - PBIC Copyright)

• It's up to YOU - How bicycling can keep children healthy and teach them good habits for a lifetime (available in English, Spanish, Somali, and Vietnamese).
  

Resources for Community Presentations

• Obesity trends from 1985 to 2005 in PDF - These slides depict the rising obesity trend over the last 20 years.

Professional Research about Physical Activity

• Recommendations to increase physical activity in communities - The Community Preventive Services Guide, a project funded by the CDC, reviews the effectiveness of interventions designed to increase levels of physical activity.

• State of Washington's Children: Weighing in on Health and Fitness in Washington - A report by the Human Services Policy Center with the health statistics of today's children and how to improve them.
  

• Active Healthy Living - The American Academy of Pediatrics' policy statement which outlines ways health professionals can encourage, monitor, and advocate for increased physical activity for children and teenagers.
• Download the Surgeon General's report about the benefits of physical activity for adolescents.

Professional Research about Air Quality

• Download a Lancet study indicating that traffic exposure is related to increased rates of asthma and other respiratory diseases in children.

Professional Research about Walking and Biking to School

• Promoting Safe Walking and Biking to School: The Marin County Success Story.
• Active Commuting to School. - This study discusses the importance of a pedestrian-friendly neighborhood for children's activity levels and parent perceptions about safety and relate these to the number of children actively commuting to school.
  

For web resources, go to our Health Resource page.