The voices for healthy kids campaign and US state legislation to prevent childhood obesity

S.N. Bleich, J. Jones-Smith, H. Jones, M. O'Hara and L. Rutkow

American Journal of Public Health, 2016, vol. 106, issue 3, 436-439

Abstract: We documented childhood obesity legislative activity in all 50 US states that occurred in parallel to the first year of Voices for Healthy Kids (Voices), a campaign to mobilize evidence-based legislation addressing childhood obesity. Weidentified 217 bills in the year before Voices (November 2012 to October 2013) and 304 bills at follow-up (November 2013 to October 2014). In states with active Voices grantees, the bill enactment rate was 50% higher (increasing from 10% at baseline to 15% at follow-up).

Keywords: government; health care policy; health promotion; human; legislation and jurisprudence; organization and management; Pediatric Obesity; United States, Health Policy; Health Promotion; Humans; Pediatric Obesity; State Government; United States (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016
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DOI: 10.2105/AJPH.2015.303002

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