A Health Equity Approach to Obesity Efforts Proceedings of a Workshop (2019) / Chapter Skim
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Participants also discussed research needed to inform and mobilize equitycentered obesity prevention and treatment actions in the field. The workshop's full Statement of Task is in Box 1-1.2 1 The planning committee's role was limited to planning the workshop, and this Proceedings of a Workshop was prepared by the workshop rapporteur as a factual summary of what occurred at the workshop.
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Purcell explained further that the roundtable also provides a trusted venue for inspiring, developing, and examining multisector collaborations, as well as sustainable policy, environmental, and behavioral initiatives, designed to increase physical activity, reduce sedentary behavior, and improve the healthfulness of foods and beverages, with the goal of reducing the prevalence and adverse consequences of obesity and its related health disparities. Purcell underscored the workshop's exclusive focus on equity- entered c obesity prevention and treatment actions, noting that this topic has been a cross-cutting theme in the roundtable's activities.
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Chapter 4 examines concepts and principles of health equities and inequities through the contextual perspectives of history, culture, law, immigration status, and socioeconomic status. Chapter 5 describes examples of community and public health approaches to achieving equity in obesity prevention and treatment.
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