Samer Sahl, Enbin Song, Dunbiao Niu
Robust Cubature Kalman Filter for Moving-Target Tracking with Missing Measurements
Sensors (Basel, Switzerland)
little known separate combined effects state national nutrition policies regulating food beverages schools child overweightobesity ovob related racialethnic disparities investigated influence school nutrition policies enacted california independently combination united states national policy healthy hunger free kids act hhfka childhood ovob racialethnic disparities interrupted time series design used data 12363089 childlevel records 5th 7thgraders california public schools estimate sex racialethnicspecific time trends ovob prevalence three periods california nutrition policies 20022004 california policies effect 20052012 effect simultaneously hhfka 20132016 states policies ovob prevalence increased annually among children subgroups improvements ovob trends observed almost groups california policies effect improvements addition hffka total change annual logodds ovob comparing periods state federal policies versus policies ranged 008 001 varied grade sex raceethnicity within sex grade greatest changes among africanamerican 008 002 p 005 followed latino children 006 001 p 005 although disparities narrowed among groups versus white children dual policy period disparities remained large state national nutrition policies schools may contributed containing upward trend childhood ovob racialethnic ovob disparities within california however sizable ovob prevalence disparities persist end epidemic promote healthy weight increase health equity future efforts strengthen state national policies improve food quality schools particularly serving populations highest ovob prevalence