Design and methods of Shape Up Under 5: Integration of systems science and community-engaged research to prevent early childhood obesity.

Design and methods of Shape Up Under 5: Integration of systems science and community-engaged research to prevent early childhood obesity.

Shape Up Under 5 (SUU5) was a two-year early childhood obesity prevention pilot study in Somerville, Massachusetts (2015-2017) designed to test a novel conceptual framework called Stakeholder-driven Community Diffusion. For whole-of-community interventions, this framework posits that diffusion of st...

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Main Authors: Julia M Appel, Karen Fullerton, Erin Hennessy, Ariella R Korn, Alison Tovar, Steven Allender, Peter S Hovmand, Matt Kasman, Boyd A Swinburn, Ross A Hammond, Christina D Economos
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2019-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0220169

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