Background: Comprehensive multisector, multilevel approaches are needed to address
childhood obesity. This article introduces the structure of a multidisciplinary team approach …

Background: The long-term success of child obesity prevention and control efforts depends
not only on the efficacy of the approaches selected, but also on the strategies through which …

Background: This is the first of a set of articles in this issue on the Childhood Obesity
Research Demonstration (CORD) project and provides an overview of the multisite …

Background: Childhood obesity remains prevalent and is increasing in some disadvantaged
populations. Numerous research, policy and community initiatives are undertaken to impact …

Background: The evidence for and our understanding of community-level strategies such as
policies, system, and environmental changes that support healthy eating and active living is …

Classification systems can be useful for evaluating and communicating the impact of
interventions. We describe how a typology was created to inform the development of a …

Objective The cross-site process evaluation plan for the Childhood Obesity Research
Demonstration (CORD) project is described here. Design The CORD project comprises 3 …

Abstract Introduction: The Childhood Obesity Research Demonstration (CORD) project links
public health and primary care interventions in three projects described in detail in …

Objective: Using a community-based participatory research and systems-based approach,
the purpose of this community case study is to describe the planning process and first-year …

Guided by a community-based participatory research and systems-based approach, this 3-
year mixed-methods case study describes the experiences and capacity development of a …