The Kaiser Permanente Community Health Initiative: overview and evaluation design.

Cheadle, Allen; Schwartz, Pamela M; Rauzon, Suzanne; Beery, William L; Gee, Scott; Solomon, Loel · Am J Public Health · 2010

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We provide an overview of the Kaiser Permanente Community Health Initiative--created in 2003 to promote obesity-prevention policy and environmental change in communities served by Kaiser Permanente-and describe the design for evaluating the initiative. The Initiative focuses on 3 ethnically diverse northern California communities that range in size from 37,000 to 52,000 residents. The evaluation assesses impact by measuring intermediate outcomes and conducting pre- and posttracking of population-level measures of physical activity, nutrition, and overweight.

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