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

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

Published: May 30, 2013
Publisher: Journal of Health Care for the Poor and Underserved, vol. 24, no. 2

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Associated Project

Evaluation of Model Communities: Healthy Weight Collaborative

Time frame: 2009-2013

Prepared for:

U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Health Resources and Services Administration

Authors

Margaret B. Hargreaves

Todd Honeycutt

Cara Orfield

Charlotte Cabili

Sylvia K. Fisher

Ronette Briefel

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.

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