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615 Annals Am. Acad. Pol. & Soc. Sci. 6 (2008)

handle is hein.cow/anamacp0615 and id is 1 raw text is: Preface By AMY B. JORDAN This special issue of The Annals is dedicated to exploring the topic of childhood over- weight and obesity. It brings together researchers, practitioners, and policy makers in a forum designed to identify the contexts of a child's life that help to determine weight status, including the home, the community, and the school, as well as the larger contexts of children's development influenced by media and culture. The approach we take in this forum reflects the great tradition of The Annals-we have the unique opportu- nity to bring to bear numerous disciplinary perspectives to inform the causes and conse- quences of childhood overweight, and collectively we are inspired to use our expertise to make empirically based, creative suggestions for strategies to overcome the problem. Our authors are health care practitioners, social scientists, philanthropists, advocates, and policy makers. Where else but in The Annals could such a group of distinguished influentials come together? As the authors who have written for this vol- ume argue, the problem of childhood over- weight has reached near-epidemic proportions in the United States. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)-a federal agency that has tracked the prevalence of over- weight across the decades-finds that the num- ber of children who are obese (at or above the 95th percentile for age- and gender-adjusted height and weight) has tripled since the 1970s. Amy B. Jordan is director of the Media and the Developing Child sector of the Annenberg Public Policy Center at the University qf Pennsylvania. She is the coauthor (with Victor Strasburger and Barbara Wilson) qof Children, Adolescents and the Media (Sage Publica- tions, forthcoming in 2008) and coeditor (with. Sandra Calvedt) q(f Children in the Digital Age (Greno>nod Press, 2002). She received the International Co nunnnicalions Association award for Most Important Applied/Policy Research (2001) for her work on the implem( entation and impact of federal children's television re glations. DOJ: 10.1177/0002716207309670 ANNALS, AAPSS, 615, January 2008 6

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