Journal article
Involvement of Local Health Departments in Obesity Prevention: A Scoping Review
Journal of public health management and practice, Vol.28(2), pp.E345-E353
03/01/2022
DOI: 10.1097/PHH.0000000000001346
PMCID: PMC8781226
PMID: 33729187
Abstract
Introduction: Local health department (LHD) obesity prevention (OP) efforts, particularly by rural LHDs, are seemingly uncommon, in part, due to limited infrastructure, workforce capacity, accessible data, and available population-level interventions aimed at social determinants of health (SDOH). Methods: We conducted a scoping review to determine LHD roles in OP efforts and interventions. Inclusion criteria were articles including evidence-based OP and LHD leaders or staff. Articles were coded by type of LHD involvement, data use, intervention characteristics, use of an SDOH lens, and urban or rural setting. Results: We found 154 articles on LHD OP-52 articles met inclusion criteria. Typically, LHDs engaged in only surveillance, initial intervention development, or evaluation and were not LHD led. Data and SDOH lens use were infrequent, and interventions typically took place in urban settings. Conclusion: LHDs could likely play a greater role in OP and population-level interventions and use data in intervention decision making. However, literature is limited. Future research should focus on LHD capacity building, including academic-public health partnerships. Studies should include rural populations, data, and SDOH frameworks addressing "upstream" factors.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Involvement of Local Health Departments in Obesity Prevention: A Scoping Review
- Creators
- Anna Petrovskis - University of WashingtonBarbara Baquero - University of WashingtonBetty Bekemeier - University of Washington
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- Journal of public health management and practice, Vol.28(2), pp.E345-E353
- DOI
- 10.1097/PHH.0000000000001346
- PMID
- 33729187
- PMCID
- PMC8781226
- NLM abbreviation
- J Public Health Manag Pract
- ISSN
- 1078-4659
- eISSN
- 1550-5022
- Publisher
- Lippincott Williams & Wilkins
- Number of pages
- 9
- Grant note
- Seattle Chapter of the ARCS Foundation 1 CPIMP171144-01-00 / Department of Health and Human Services, Office of the Assistant Secretary for Health
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 03/01/2022
- Academic Unit
- Community and Behavioral Health
- Record Identifier
- 9984363610502771
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