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PAPERBACK price:$29.75 add to cart Rights & Permissions Free PDF Access Sign in to download PDF book and chapters Free Resources PDF SUMMARY Display this book on your site! Related Titles Bridging the Evidence Gap in Obesity Prevention:A Framework to Inform Decision Making Progress in Preventing Childhood Obesity: How Do We Measure Up? Other Related Titles Community Perspectives on Obesity Prevention in Children: Workshop Summaries (2009) Food and Nutrition Board (FNB) Citation Manager Export the bibliographic data for this book in your chosen format Web Search Builder Use this book's key terms to search within this book, across our collection, or across the Web. Skim This Chapter Skim this chapter and use this chapter's key terms to search within this book. Reference Finder Paste in your own text to find books that relate to your topic. Citation Manager . "1 Introduction." Community Perspectives on Obesity Prevention in Children: Workshop Summaries. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press, 2009. Please select a format: Page 3   E-mail Share on facebook Facebook Share on delicious Delicious Share on stumbleupon Stumble Share on twitter Twitter More Sharing ServicesMore The following HTML text is provided to enhance online readability. Many aspects of typography translate only awkwardly to HTML. Please use the page image as the authoritative form to ensure accuracy. 1 Introduction Participants in the June 2008 workshop included evaluators and site leaders involved in a variety of childhood obesity prevention programs that are part of the California Convergence project, an effort led and sponsored by The California Endowment and Kaiser Permanente. The California Convergence project is aimed at promoting learning, synergy, and collaboration among community demonstration programs that are at the cutting edge of efforts to address the problem of obesity in the state, as well as nationwide. Each program within the project is focused on enabling and encouraging people to make more healthful choices with respect to both diet and physical activity (California Convergence, 2008). The workshop included two 2-hour moderated discussions—one with program evaluators and one with site leaders. These two groups are involved on the ground in efforts to develop, implement, and evaluate local childhood obesity prevention programs. Their insights are critical to improving use of the current evidence base and understanding the best approaches to implementing and evaluating childhood obesity prevention programs. Based on recommendations of the California Convergence project, approximately 40 individuals representing diverse obesity prevention programs across the state were invited to participate in the workshop sessions; 11 evaluators and 22 site leaders attended. The workshop attendees are listed in Appendix C. A planning committee convened by the Institute of Medicine (IOM) prepared questions in advance of the workshop to facilitate the discussion. Using these questions as a starting point, the participants described the challenges involved in collecting and using relevant scientific evidence to Page 3 Front Matter (R1-R16) SUMMARY OF WORKSHOP--June 2008 (1-2) 1 Introduction (3-4) 2 Perspectives of Evaluators (5-10) 3 Perspectives of Site Leaders (11-14) References (15-16) SUMMARY OF WORKSHOP 2--May 2009 (17-18) Summary (19-24) 4 Introduction (25-28) 5 Community-Based Programs: How Does Information Help Them Achieve Their Goals? (29-46) 6 Research and Advocacy Groups: How Does Evidence Inform Policy? (47-62) 7 Decision Makers: How Do Community Perspectives Influence Policy? (63-74) 8 Closing Remarks (75-78) References (79-80) Appendix A: Workshop Agendas (81-84) Appendix B: Biographical Sketches (85-92) Appendix C: Workshop Attendees (93-96)

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Community Perspectives on Obesity Prevention in Children: Workshop Summaries 1 Introduction Participants in the June 2008 workshop included evaluators and site leaders involved in a variety of childhood obesity prevention programs that are part of the California Convergence project, an effort led and sponsored by The California Endowment and Kaiser Permanente. The California Convergence project is aimed at promoting learning, synergy, and collaboration among community demonstration programs that are at the cutting edge of efforts to address the problem of obesity in the state, as well as nationwide. Each program within the project is focused on enabling and encouraging people to make more healthful choices with respect to both diet and physical activity (California Convergence, 2008). The workshop included two 2-hour moderated discussions—one with program evaluators and one with site leaders. These two groups are involved on the ground in efforts to develop, implement, and evaluate local childhood obesity prevention programs. Their insights are critical to improving use of the current evidence base and understanding the best approaches to implementing and evaluating childhood obesity prevention programs. Based on recommendations of the California Convergence project, approximately 40 individuals representing diverse obesity prevention programs across the state were invited to participate in the workshop sessions; 11 evaluators and 22 site leaders attended. The workshop attendees are listed in Appendix C. A planning committee convened by the Institute of Medicine (IOM) prepared questions in advance of the workshop to facilitate the discussion. Using these questions as a starting point, the participants described the challenges involved in collecting and using relevant scientific evidence to

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Community Perspectives on Obesity Prevention in Children: Workshop Summaries inform the planning and implementation of multifaceted community-based obesity prevention programs, as well as opportunities for improving program evaluation. This brief summary highlights the ideas expressed by the program evaluators and site leaders during their respective workshop sessions; it should be noted that these ideas do not represent consensus views or recommendations.