Health Resources and Services Administration

The completion gap framework: age-associated weight gain as passive convergence between meal completion and energy demand

Abstract Age-associated weight gain is commonly attributed to behavioral or metabolic changes. We propose the completion gap framework, in which meal-completion requirements and physiological energy demand are only partially coupled. Persistent mismatch between these variables pr...

Obesity Prevalence in the United States among 6 − 17-Year-Old Children and Adolescents: Measured vs. Parent-Reported Height and Weight from Two National Surveys, 2015–2018

BACKGROUND: Previous comparison of obesity prevalence from the National Survey of Children's Health (NSCH) and the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES) found differences between measured and parent-reported estimates for children and adolescents. The NSCH has...

The Health Education Specialist Practice Analysis III 2025 (HESPA III 2025): Process and Outcomes

The Health Education Specialist Practice Analysis III 2025 was conducted to update and validate the hierarchical model associated with the contemporary framework for the practice of health education specialists across work settings at entry and advanced levels. The purpose of thi...