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Leveraging Health Communication, Data, and Innovative Approaches for Sustainable Systems-Wide Changes to Reduce the Prevalence of Obesity: Proceedings of a Workshop - in Brief
Leveraging Health Communication, Data, and Innovative Approaches for Sustainable Systems-Wide Changes to Reduce the Prevalence of Obesity: Proceedings of a Workshop - in Brief
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Participants in the workshop discussed how health communication might enhance the understanding and the use of current modeling and data-driven efforts to advance obesity solutions; they also explored innovative data and policy approaches for obesity solutions. This Proceedings of a Workshop -- in Brief highlights the presentations and discussions that occurred at the workshop and is not intended to provide a comprehensive summary of the information shared during the workshop.1 The information summarized here reflects the knowledge and opinions of individual workshop participants and should not be seen as a consensus of the workshop participants, the Roundtable on Obesity Solutions, or the National Academies.
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Moreover, individual-level interventions to improve diet and promote physical activity are often emphasized in initial approaches to address obesity. Niederdeppe discussed the effects of communication interventions to promote individual behaviors such as diet and physical activity.
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Donnelly provided several suggestions for increasing physical activity in schools without decreasing academic instruction: increasing active time during physical education class and recess, providing access to physical activity before and after school, promoting active travel (i.e., walking, biking, or other nonmotorized transport) to school, providing physically active lessons, and using physical activity as a classroom management or behavior tool.
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The relative benefits of weight loss compared to improvements in other clinical domains depend on what type of weight loss treatment is under consideration, O'Connor explained, and he emphasized that optimal decision support tools will ideally address multiple clinical domains because at least four clinical issues are present in the average adult primary care encounter. Communicating evidence-informed, personalized estimates of benefits and risks of weight management options is challenging, O'Connor acknowledged.
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She noted it seemed clear that the rising prevalence of adverse health indicators could not be attributed to individual choices alone, which she said led to the Department of Health's realization that improving the availability and accessibility of healthy food choices is at least as -- if not more important than -- educating people about making healthy choices. Bassett highlighted several policy approaches pioneered by the NYC Department of Health, beginning with its 2006 requirements for chain restaurants to post calorie information on their menus and for all restaurants to remove trans fats from most of their menu offerings.
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An equity-centered strategy to reduce health inequities addresses social and political pressures or policies for changing social determinants of health, she said, as it applies a human-centered approach to identifying and prioritizing interventions that will maximize benefits for disadvantaged populations. Shifting to reflect on the workshop presentations and discussions, de Guia proposed that health communication, data, community engagement, and equitable policy solutions are critical and interrelated components to advance efforts to reduce the prevalence of obesity.
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2021. Leveraging health communication, data, and innovative approaches for sustainable systems-wide changes to reduce the prevalence of obesity: Proceedings of a workshop -- in brief.
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