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Considerations for an Obesity Policy Research Agenda
American journal of preventive medicine, v 36(4), pp 351-357
01 Apr 2009
PMID: 19211215
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Abstract
The rise in obesity levels in the U.S. in the past several decades has been dramatic, with serious implications for public health and the economy. Experiences in tobacco control and other public health initiatives have shown that public policy may be a powerful tool to effect structural change to alter population-level behavior. In 2007, the National Cancer Institute convened a meeting to discuss priorities for a research agenda to inform obesity policy. Issues considered were how to define obesity policy research, key challenges and key partners in formulating and implementing an obesity policy research agenda, criteria by which to set research priorities, and specific research needs and questions. Themes that emerged were: (1) the embryonic nature of obesity policy research, (2) the need to study "natural experiments" resulting from policy-based efforts to address the obesity epidemic, (3) the importance of research focused beyond individual-level behavior change, (4) the need for economic research across several relevant policy areas, and (5) the overall urgency of taking action in the policy arena. Moving forward, timely evaluation of natural experiments is of especially high priority. A variety of policies intended to promote healthy weight in children and adults are being implemented in communities and at the state and national levels. Although some of these policies are supported by the findings of intervention research, additional research is needed to evaluate the implementation and quantify the impact of new policies designed to address obesity.
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- Title
- Considerations for an Obesity Policy Research Agenda
- Creators
- Robin A. McKinnon - NCI, Bethesda, MD 20892 USATracy Orleans - Robert Wood Johnson Fdn, Princeton, NJ 08540 USAShiriki K. Kumanyika - Univ Penn, Philadelphia, PA 19104 USADebra Haire-Joshu - Washington Univ, St Louis, MO USASusan M. Krebs-Smith - NCI, Bethesda, MD 20892 USAEric A. Finkelstein - RTI Int, Res Triangle Pk, Res Triangle Pk, NC 27709 USAKelly D. Brownell - Yale Univ, New Haven, CT USAJoseph W. Thompson - Univ Arkansas Med Sci, Little Rock, AR 72205 USARachel Ballard-Barbash - NCI, Bethesda, MD 20892 USA
- Publication Details
- American journal of preventive medicine, v 36(4), pp 351-357
- Publisher
- Elsevier
- Number of pages
- 7
- Grant note
- Z99 CA999999 / Intramural NIH HHS; United States Department of Health & Human Services; National Institutes of Health (NIH) - USA
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Language
- English
- Academic Unit
- Urban Health Collaborative; Dana and David Dornsife School of Public Health
- Web of Science ID
- WOS:000264407700012
- Scopus ID
- 2-s2.0-61649104546
- Other Identifier
- 991019312322304721
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- Public, Environmental & Occupational Health