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Community interventions: a brief overview and their application to the obesity epidemic.

Economos CD, Irish-Hauser S

John Hancock Center for Physical Activity and Nutrition, and Dorothy R. Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy, Tufts University, MA, USA.

Community-based interventions built on theory and informed by community members produce potent, sustainable change. This intervention model mobilizes inherent community assets and pinpoints specific needs. Advancing community-based research to address obesity will require training of future leaders in this methodology, funding to conduct rigorous trials, and scientific acceptance of this model.

Published 7 March 2007 in J Law Med Ethics, 35(1): 131-7.
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