Policies for healthier communities: Historical, legal, and practical elements of the obesity prevention movement

Annual Review of Public Health

Volumn 33, Issue , 2012, Pages 307-324

  Graff, Samantha K ^a   Kappagoda, Manel ^a   Wooten, Heather M ^a   McGowan, Angela K ^b   Ashe, Marice ^a  

^a Public Health Law and Policy   (United States)

^b ROBERT WOOD JOHNSON FOUNDATION   (United States)

Author keywords

Food; Law; Physical activity; Policy; Regulation

Indexed keywords

CHRONIC DISEASE; COMMUNITY CARE; GOVERNMENT REGULATION; HEALTH CARE PLANNING; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH PROGRAM; HUMAN; LEGAL ASPECT; NATIONAL HEALTH ORGANIZATION; OBESITY; PREVENTION STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SOCIAL ASPECT;

HEALTH POLICY; HEALTH PROMOTION; HUMANS; LIFE STYLE; OBESITY; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84861405751     PISSN: 01637525     EISSN: 15452093     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev-publhealth-031811-124608     Document Type: Review

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