The Healthy Weight Collaborative: using learning collaboratives to enhance community-based prevention initiatives addressing childhood obesity

J Health Care Poor Underserved. 2013;24(2 Suppl):103-15. doi: 10.1353/hpu.2013.0095.

Abstract

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.

MeSH terms

  • Cooperative Behavior
  • Health Promotion / organization & administration*
  • Humans
  • Pediatric Obesity / prevention & control*
  • Program Evaluation
  • Public Health
  • United States