Real-world public health interventions demonstrate how research evidence informs program scale-up.

ABSTRACT: Evidence-based population interventions rely on intervention testing (efficacy and effectiveness trials) to determine what works to improve public health. We investigated the characteristics of real-world public health interventions to address obesity and explored the extent to which research testing was undertaken prior to scale-up. We identified 90 population health interventions targeting physical activity, nutrition or obesity-related health behaviours and collected publicly available information on their key characteristics and outcomes. We then assessed the differences between interventions that followed a research pathway and those that did not. Two-thirds (n = 60) of the interventions were reported as having followed a research pathway. Univariate logistic regression analysis revea

SUBMITTER: Crane M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11419317 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature