NCCORTools

Our work is supporting researchers and practitioners with tools that help build the capacity for research and surveillance.

  • Create Thriving, Activity-Friendly Communities

    Create Thriving, Activity-Friendly Communities

    This tool serves as a growing collection of resources and research to help public health practitioners, decision makers, and community members make the business case for improving the built environment.

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  • A Guide to Methods for Assessing Childhood Obesity

    A Guide to Methods for Assessing Childhood Obesity

    This User Guide walks you through the most common adiposity assessment methods and includes several case studies to help you understand which methods are most appropriate for research and evaluation of childhood adiposity.

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  • A Toolkit for Evaluating Childhood Healthy Weight Programs

    A Toolkit for Evaluating Childhood Healthy Weight Programs

    This toolkit offers guidance on evaluation and access to guides, databases, research articles, and other tools to support your evaluation needs.

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  • Measures Registry Resource Suite

    Measures Registry Resource Suite

    The suite is a series of three tools—the Measures Registry, User Guides, and Learning Modules, which help users understand key measurement concepts and find appropriate measures for research and evaluation projects

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  • Youth Compendium of Physical Activities

    Youth Compendium of Physical Activities

    The Youth Compendium of Physical Activities provides a list of 196 common activities in which youth participate and the estimated energy cost associated with each activity.

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  • Catalogue of Surveillance Systems

    Catalogue of Surveillance Systems

    This interactive web tool provides one-stop access to a wide array of national, state, and local surveillance systems at multiple levels.

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