Examination of community-level interventions addressing early childhood obesity in Los Angeles County.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To help inform decisions regarding the equitable implementation of obesity interventions, we examined whether interventions were equitably reaching the most vulnerable communities, identified communities that received fewer interventions than expected, and estimated the effect of 'dose' of interventions on obesity prevalence.

Methods

We created a database to identify and characterize obesity-related interventions implemented in Los Angeles County from 2005 to 2015 linked to community-level sociodemographic and obesity prevalence data. We ran generalized linear models with a Gamma distribution and log link to determine if interventions were directed toward vulnerable communities and to identify communities that received fewer interventions than expected. We ran fixe

SUBMITTER: Jung S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11002848 | biostudies-literature | 2024 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature