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Alternative Title:
Prev Chronic Dis
Publisher's site:
http://dx.doi.org/10.5888/pcd15.170331
Personal Author:
Greer, Anna E. ; Knausenberger, Ann ;
Greer, Anna E. ; Knausenberger, Ann ; Less -
Description:
We examined the relative importance of 23 community issues among elected officials and health directors in Connecticut in 2016. For this cross-sectional study, 74 elected officials (40.7% response rate) and 47 health directors (62.7% response rate), who were purposively sampled, completed a questionnaire to rate their perceived importance of 23 community issues. Eight of these issues were related to active living, healthy eating, or obesity. We used χ|tests to evaluate differences in responses. Compared with elected officials, health directors significantly more often perceived obesity, access to healthy groceries, poor nutrition, lack of pedestrian walkways, and pedestrian safety as important. Elected officials significantly more often than health directors perceived lack of good jobs, quality of public education, and cost of living as important. Health advocates should work with both groups to develop and frame policies to address both upstream (eg, jobs, education) and downstream (eg, healthy eating policies) determinants of obesity.
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Cross-Sectional Studies
Diet, Healthy
Exercise
Government Employees
Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice
Health Policy
Humans
Obesity
Surveys And Questionnaires

Source:
Prev Chronic Dis. 15.
Pubmed ID:
29494331
Pubmed Central ID:
PMC5833314
Document Type:
Journal Article ;
Place as Subject:
Connecticut ;
Collection(s):
Preventing Chronic Disease
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