JUMP IN PARTNERSHIP REPORTS LOCAL, ANNUAL CHILDHOOD OBESITY TRENDS

Weight Trends Among Children and Adolescents within Central Indiana: 2023 Data Addendum (posted April 2025)

Project Team: Zach Carr, Jennifer Crago, Thomas Duszynski, Amy Hancock, Nimish Valvi, Muchiri Wandai

This second report provides an annual update to the initial report, adding 2023 data to describe childhood overweight and obesity prevalence trends from 2014 through 2023. Tables and charts describe trends among children ages 2 through 19 for Marion, the contiguous 7 counties, and for the region. The report also describes trends by sex, race and ethnicity, and age group, and it explores changes associated with time periods immediately before and during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Weight Trends Among Children and Adolescents within Central Indiana (posted 2024)

Project Team: Jennifer Crago, Thomas Duszynski, Amy Hancock, Nimish Valvi, Ava Luo

This inaugural report describes data through 2022. An extensive introduction, recommendations for policy and practice change, references and appendices position these new data in the urgent and broad local and national efforts to reduce and prevent childhood obesity.

 

 

 

Our Partners: 

• The IU Richard M. Fairbanks School of Public Health
• Regenstrief Institute
• Indiana Health Information Exchange

Interested in learning more?  Here are some additional resources:

• State of Childhood Obesity
• Childhood Overweight & Obesity, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
• Indiana Department of Health, Division of Nutrition and Physical Activity