Evaluating obesity prevention efforts [electronic resource] : a plan for measuring progress / Committee on Evaluating Progress of Obesity Prevention Efforts ; Food and Nutrition Board ; Lawrence W. Green, Leslie Sim, and Heather Breiner, editors.
Green, Lawrence W., editor.; Sim, Leslie J., editor.; Breiner, Heather, editor.; Institute of Medicine (U.S.). Food and Nutrition Board, issuing body.; Institute of Medicine (U.S.). Committee on Evaluating Progress of Obesity Prevention Efforts, issuing body.
2013
RA645.O23 E93 2013eb
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Evaluating obesity prevention efforts [electronic resource] : a plan for measuring progress / Committee on Evaluating Progress of Obesity Prevention Efforts ; Food and Nutrition Board ; Lawrence W. Green, Leslie Sim, and Heather Breiner, editors.
ISBN
0309285275
9780309285278
9780309289627
9780309285285 electronic book
Published
Washington, District of Columbia : National Academies Press, [2013]
Copyright
©2013
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (461 pages) : illustrations (some color)
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RA645.O23 E93 2013eb
Dewey Decimal Classification
616.398
Summary
"Obesity poses one of the greatest public health challenges of the 21st century, creating serious health, economic, and social consequences for individuals and society. Despite acceleration in efforts to characterize, comprehend, and act on this problem, including implementation of preventive interventions, further understanding is needed on the progress and effectiveness of these interventions. Evaluating Obesity Prevention Efforts develops a concise and actionable plan for measuring the nation's progress in obesity prevention efforts--specifically, the success of policy and environmental strategies recommended in the 2012 IOM report Accelerating Progress in Obesity Prevention: Solving the Weight of the Nation. This book offers a framework that will provide guidance for systematic and routine planning, implementation, and evaluation of the advancement of obesity prevention efforts. This framework is for specific use with the goals and strategies from the 2012 report and can be used to assess the progress made in every community and throughout the country, with the ultimate goal of reducing the obesity epidemic. It offers potentially valuable guidance in improving the quality and effect of the actions being implemented. The recommendations of Evaluating Obesity Prevention Efforts focus on efforts to increase the likelihood that actions taken to prevent obesity will be evaluated, that their progress in accelerating the prevention of obesity will be monitored, and that the most promising practices will be widely disseminated."--Publisher's description.
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Includes bibliographical references.
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Green, Lawrence W., editor.
Sim, Leslie J., editor.
Breiner, Heather, editor.
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Institute of Medicine (U.S.). Food and Nutrition Board, issuing body.
Institute of Medicine (U.S.). Committee on Evaluating Progress of Obesity Prevention Efforts, issuing body.
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Evaluating obesity prevention efforts : a plan for measuring progress.
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Improving the Usefulness of Obesity Evaluation Information to Potential Users
Framework for Evaluation
Indicators for the Evaluation Plans
Evaluating Progress in Promoting Health Equity: A Review of Methods and Tools for Measurement
National Obesity Evaluation Plan
Community Obesity Assessment and Surveillance
Monitoring and Summative Evaluation of Community Interventions
Systems and Evaluation: Placing a Systems Approach in Context
Taking Action: Recommendations for Evaluating Progress of Obesity Prevention Efforts
Appendix A: Acronyms
Appendix B: Glossary
Appendix C: Guiding Principles for Evaluation
Appendix D: Table of Indicator Data Sources
Appendix E: Disparities Tables
Appendix F: National Plan Resources
Appendix G: Community Health Assessment and Surveillance Resources
Appendix H: Community Intervention Resources
Appendix I: Panel Agenda
Appendix J: Committee Biographies.

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