The healthy weight collaborative: Quality improvement methods promoting healthy weight

Journal of Health Care for the Poor and Underserved

Volumn 23, Issue 3 SUPPL, 2012, Pages 21-33

  McPherson, Marianne E ^a   Vanderkruik, Rachel ^b   Reims, Kathy ^c   Coulouris, Natasha ^d   Anand, Shikha ^f   Linde Feucht, Sarah ^d   Homer, Charles J ^e  

^a National Initiative for Children's Healthcare Quality   (United States)

^b NICHQ   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^d HEALTH RESOURCES AND SERVICES ADMINISTRATION   (United States)

^e HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^f Harvard School of Public Health ^*

Author keywords

Action model to achieve healthy people 2020; Breakthrough series; Community based interventions; Community based organizations; Healthy weight adult; Healthy weight childhood; Learning collaborative; Model for improvement; Obesity prevention; Primary care; Public health; Quality improvement

Indexed keywords

EID: 84864692392     PISSN: 10492089     EISSN: 15486869     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1353/hpu.2012.0124     Document Type: Article

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