Creating a Community Coalition to Prevent Childhood Obesity in Yakima County, Washington: Rev It Up! 2008

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• Journal Article:
  Preventing Chronic Disease (PCD)
• Personal Author:
  Faubion, Robin Johannsen ; Brown, Jessica ; Bindler, Ruth C. ; Miller, Kris
• Description:
  Background ; One-third of the US population is obese, and childhood obesity has tripled since the late 1970s. Childhood obesity is a significant health issue requiring interventions on individual, interpersonal, community, organizational, and policy levels. Community coalitions offer successful strategies for engaging community partners with health improvement goals. ; Community Context ; In 2008, Yakima County, an agricultural community in eastern Washington, was ranked the eighth fattest city in the United States. Recognizing the obesity problem, the Yakima Health District (YHD) established 2 objectives: to decrease rates of childhood obesity in Yakima County and to recruit and establish a community coalition of key stakeholders and experts to help address the problem. ; Methods ; The YHD spearheaded a movement to create a community coalition. The coalition applied for and received state and federal grants. In September 2008, the YHD held the first recruitment event for Rev It Up!, its community-based effort to address the obesity problem in Yakima. YHD invited the Washington State Department of Health to advise the coalition-building and action-planning process. ; Outcome ; The community coalition achieved 5 of 7 objectives, including developing a common vision, creating an advisory committee, and conducting a community inventory, prioritization process, and action plan. However, unexpected public health challenges in the YHD delayed coalition efforts. ; Interpretation ; Creating the Rev It Up! coalition met a community need and engaged community partners. Some potential partners were dissuaded by the 6-month period required to establish the coalition. Rev It Up! continues as a community effort to reduce rates of obesity in Yakima County.
• Subjects:
  • Community Case Studies
  • Advisory Committees
  • Bicycling
  • Capacity Building
  • Capital Financing
  • Child
  • Child Health Services
  • City Planning
  • Community Health Planning
  • Community Health Services
  More +
• Source:
  Prev Chronic Dis. 9.
• ISSN:
  1545-1151
• Document Type:
  Journal Article
• Volume:
  9
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  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/19729/cdc_19729_DS1.pdf
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• Collection(s):
  Preventing Chronic Disease
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