Strategies

Provide education, information, counseling, and support for breastfeeding to women throughout pre- and post-natal care

Provide prescriptions with healthy eating goals for patients and families, often accompanied by progress checks at office visits; can include partnerships with local farmers markets via FVRx programs

Allow community members to gather, socialize, walk, run, bike, skate, etc. on streets temporarily to closed to motorized traffic; also called Ciclovía programs

Place motivational signs on or near stairwells, elevators, and escalators that encourage individuals to use stairs

Arrange active transportation with a fixed route, designated stops, and pick up times when children can walk to school with adult chaperones