This report from the field describes the design, implementation, and early evaluation results of the Healthy Weight Collaborative, a federally supported learning collaborative to develop, test, and disseminate an integrated change package of six promising, evidence-based clinical and...

With the prevalence of obesity on the rise, keeping young children physically active is an important strategy to promote their health and well-being. But survey instruments to measure physical activity in preschool-aged children are lacking. Furthermore, direct measures of their physical...

This article describes a literature review of articles published from 2005 to 2012 to (1) provide examples of the spectrum of roles that primary care providers can play in the successful treatment and prevention of childhood obesity in both clinic and community settings, and (2) synthesize the...

This report details how Head Start—the largest federally funded early childhood education program in the U.S. that reaches one million children—uses a multilevel approach to prevent childhood obesity that involves staff, parents, and community partners.

This article examines the relationship between maternal infant-feeding style and adiposity in childhood to determine whether feeding style explains any of the association between maternal obesity and childhood obesity. Researchers found little relationship between maternal feeding style during...

This article describes a literature review of articles published from 2005 to 2012 to (1) provide examples of the spectrum of roles that primary care providers can play in the successful treatment and prevention of childhood obesity in both clinic and community settings, and (2) synthesize the...

With the prevalence of obesity on the rise, keeping young children physically active is an important strategy to promote their health and well-being. But survey instruments to measure physical activity in preschool-aged children are lacking. Furthermore, direct measures of their physical...

This article outlines a mixed methods approach to systems change evaluation and offers a case study of how this approach has been used to evaluate the development of system infrastructure supporting the implementation, spread, and sustainability of evidence-based home visiting projects. The...

This brief is designed to support quality improvement (QI) efforts by describing the status of the evidence and presenting information that categorizes such efforts using a typology of QI models and targets.