The Voices for Healthy Kids Campaign and US State Legislation to Prevent Childhood Obesity | Zendy

Sara N. Bleich | Zendy; Jessica C. JonesSmith | Zendy; Hannah Jones | Zendy; Marguerite O’Hara | Zendy; Lainie Rutkow | Zendy

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The 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).

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