Open AccessThe Voices for Healthy Kids Campaign and US State Legislation to Prevent Childhood Obesity
Author(s) -
Sara N. Bleich,
Jessica C. JonesSmith,
Hannah Jones,
Marguerite O’Hara,
Lainie Rutkow
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
american journal of public health
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.284
H-Index - 264
eISSN - 1541-0048
pISSN - 0090-0036
DOI - 10.2105/ajph.2015.303002
Subject(s) - legislation , childhood obesity , legislature , obesity , environmental health , medicine , child obesity , state (computer science) , political science , demography , law , sociology , overweight , algorithm , computer science
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).