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The Kaiser Permanente Community Health Initiative: Overview and Evaluation Design

Year: 2010

Type: article

Abstract: We provide an overview of the Kaiser Permanente Community Health Initiative--created in 2003 to promote obesity-prevention policy and environmental change in communities served by Kaiser Permanente-and describe the design for evaluating the initiative. The Initiative focuses on 3 ethnically diverse northern California communities that range in size from 37,000 to 52,000 residents. The evaluation assesses impact by measuring intermediate outcomes and conducting pre- and posttracking of population-level measures of physical activity, nutrition, and overweight.

Source: American Journal of Public Health

DOI: 10.2105/ajph.2010.300001

Authors: Allen Cheadle, Pamela M. Schwartz, Suzanne Rauzon, William L. Beery, Scott Gee, Loel Solomon

Institution: University of Washington

Language: English

Topic: Obesity, Physical Activity, Diet

Subfield: Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health

Field: Medicine

Domain: Health Sciences

SDG: Good health and well-being

Open Access status: green

Funder: Kaiser Permanente