Evaluating obesity prevention efforts : 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.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

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.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Obesity--United States--Prevention--Evaluation.

Obesity.

Evidence-based medicine.

Obesity--Prevention.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (463 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Washington, District of Columbia : National Academies Press, [2013]

Language Note:

English

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.

Contents:

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.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780309285308

0309285305

9780309285285

0309285283

OCLC:

893439646