Estelle Wilcox is Assistant Director of the Division of Personal Health at a mid-sized health department in a mid-sized town in the Midwest. She’s concerned about overweight children in the local school district and wants to start a weight management program. Before Estelle inquires about funding for her idea, she’d like to find out some proven approaches and interventions to addressing the public health problem of obesity in children and the criteria for designing successful programs. Using our seven-step guide to searching the public health literature, we can begin the process of addressing Estelle’s question.
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