Evaluating Community-Based Health Improvement Programs.

ABSTRACT: Increasingly, public and private resources are being dedicated to community-based health improvement programs. But evaluations of these programs typically rely on data about process and a pre-post study design without a comparison community. To better determine the association between the implementation of community-based health improvement programs and county-level health outcomes, we used publicly available data for the period 2002-06 to create a propensity-weighted set of controls for conducting multiple regression analyses. We found that the implementation of community-based health improvement programs was associated with a decrease of less than 0.15 percent in the rate of obesity, an even smaller decrease in the proportion of people reporting being in poor or fair health, and a smalle

SUBMITTER: Fry CE 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5845775 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature