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Direct linkGantner, Leigh A.; Olson, Christine M. – Evaluation and Program Planning, 2012
Community-based interventions to promote healthy weights by making environmental and policy changes in communities may be an important strategy in reversing the obesity epidemic. However, challenges faced by local public health professionals in facilitating effective environmental and policy change need to be better understood and addressed. To…
Descriptors: Public Health, Health Personnel, Body Weight, Obesity
Olson, Christine M.; Strawderman, Myla S. – Journal of Rural Health, 2008
Context: While food insecurity and obesity have been shown to be positively associated in women, little is known about the direction of the causal relationship between these 2 constructs. Purpose: To clarify the direction of the causal relationship between food insecurity and obesity. Methods: Chi-square and logistic regression analysis of data…
Descriptors: Security (Psychology), Obesity, Females, Pregnancy
