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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 qualit
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- Author
- Committee on Evaluating Progress of Obesity Prevention Effort, Food and Nutrition Board, Institute of Medicine
- Publisher
- National Academies Press
- Published
- 2014
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780309285315
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- Medical, Medicine
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