The Healthy Weight Collaborative: Using Learning Collaboratives to Enhance Community-Based Prevention Initiatives Addressing Childhood Obesity

Margaret B. Hargreaves, Todd Honeycutt, Cara Orfield, Michaela Vine, Charlotte Cabili, Michaella Morzuch, Sylvia K. Fisher and Ronette Briefel

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Abstract: This report from the field describes the design, implementation, and early evaluation results of the Healthy Weight Collaborative, a federally supported learning collaborative to develop, test, and disseminate an integrated change package of six promising, evidence-based clinical and community-based strategies to prevent and treat obesity for children and families.

Keywords: Healthy Weight Evaluation Learning Collaboratives; Childhood Obesity; Children and families; Nutrition (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 13
Date: 2013-05-30
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