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Selection of priority groups for obesity prevention current approaches and development of an evidence-informed framework
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posted on 2010-10-01, 00:00 authored by Melanie NicholsMelanie Nichols, Boyd SwinburnResources for obesity prevention interventions are inevitably limited, necessitating the selection of priority groups to ensure effective and equitable use of funds. This paper aims to review published approaches to selection of priority groups ('target populations') for obesity prevention, and to present the development of a new systematic framework for organizing and assessing evidence for selecting priority groups. A review was conducted of the process and justification described for selecting priority groups in a sample of obesity prevention publications. Using the results of this review and adaptation of theory and frameworks in both the obesity prevention and health promotion priority-setting literature, a framework was developed for assessment of potential priority groups for obesity prevention. The published literature lacks discussion of and explicit processes for selection of priority groups for obesity prevention intervention. The new framework describes specific types of evidence that should be considered in the assessment of a potential priority group for obesity prevention and has applications for funding and implementing community-based or settings-level obesity prevention interventions and research. Application of this framework has the potential to enhance the effective use of limited obesity prevention resources and to identify areas in need of additional research evidence.
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Obesity reviewsVolume
11Issue
10Pagination
731 - 739Publisher
Wiley-Blackwell Publishing Ltd.Location
Oxford, EnglandPublisher DOI
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1467-7881eISSN
1467-789XLanguage
engNotes
Published Online: 6 Jan 2010Publication classification
C1 Refereed article in a scholarly journalCopyright notice
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