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

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Journal of Health Care for the Poor and Underserved

Volume, Issue, Pages: 24(2):103-15
DOI: 10.1353/hpu.2013.0095
Date published: May 2013
Authors: Margaret B Hargreaves, Todd Honeycutt, Cara Orfield, Michaela Vine, Charlotte Cabili, Michaella Morzuch, Sylvia K Fisher, Ronette Briefel
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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.