There are many factors that affect healthy eating, physical activity, and childhood obesity rates. Finding data on these factors is a critical task for researchers. ImpacTeen, part of RWJF's Bridging the Gap program, has issued a report which identifies existing surveillance systems and databases containing information that not only tracks the current state of the childhood obesity problem, but that can also provide evidence to help address it. These existing data sources should be useful to researchers.

Read the report to learn more about available datasets.