Implementation of childhood obesity prevention and control policies in the United States and Latin America: Lessons for cross-border research and practice.

ABSTRACT: Progress has been made in the development and widespread implementation of effective interventions to address childhood obesity, yet important challenges remain. To understand how the United States and Latin American countries achieved success in implementing obesity policies and programs (PAPs) and identify improvement opportunities using implementation science principles. We identified three comparative case studies: (1) front-of-food package labeling (Mexico and Chile); (2) Open Streets/play streets (Colombia and the United States); and (3) the Baby-Friendly Hospital Initiative (Brazil and the United States). Information from multiple sources (e.g., scientific and gray literature and key informant interviews) was synthesized to describe barriers, facilitators, and progress of PAPs acros

SUBMITTER: Perez-Escamilla R 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8365637 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature