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- Title
The Voices for Healthy Kids Campaign and US State Legislation to Prevent Childhood Obesity.
- Authors
Bleich, Sara N.; Jones-Smith, Jesse; Jones, Hannah; O'Hara, Marguerite; Rutkow, Lainie
- Abstract
We documented childhood obesity legislative activity in all 50 US states that occurred in parallel to the first year of Voices for Healthy Kids (Voices), a campaign to mobilize evidence-based legislation addressing childhood obesity. We identified 217 bills in the year before Voices (November 2012 to October 2013) and 304 bills at follow-up (November 2013 to October 2014). In states with active Voices grantees, the bill enactment rate was 50% higher (increasing from 10% at baseline to 15% at follow-up)
- Subjects
UNITED States; PREVENTION of childhood obesity; STATE laws -- Social aspects; OBESITY; LEGISLATIVE bills; U.S. states politics &; government; FINANCE; TWENTY-first century; ECONOMICS; LEGISLATIVE bills -- Social aspects; LAW; CONFIDENCE intervals; LEGISLATION; REGRESSION analysis; RESEARCH funding; DESCRIPTIVE statistics; ODDS ratio
- Publication
American Journal of Public Health, 2016, Vol 106, Issue 3, p436
- ISSN
0090-0036
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.2105/AJPH.2015.303002