Childhood Obesity Program Area

RWJF is committed to tackling one of the most urgent threats to the health of our children and families—childhood obesity. Our goal is to reverse the childhood obesity epidemic by 2015.

Health e-Technologies: Building the Science of eHealth

May 28, 2010 | Program Result

Health e-Technologies supported research to evaluate the effectiveness of technological applications in improving health behaviors and chronic disease management and in enhancing patient-provider interactions.

Evaluability Assessment to Improve Public Health Policies, Programs, and Practices

April 1, 2010 | Journal Article

This articles looks at the ways in which evaluability assessments specifically serve public health programs. Evaluability assessments are an effective, yet inexpensive way to understand the assumptions behind objects and focus the program development.

Applying the Systematic Screening and Assessment Method to Childhood Obesity Prevention

April 1, 2010 | Journal Article

Using the Systematic Screening and Assessment (SSA) Method, over a 2-year period the project examined 458 such innovations 48 of these were studied further, and 20 (4.4%) were highly promising, in terms of likelihood of producing large population effects and being ready for evaluation.

NCQA Identifies Opportunities to Implement Measurements to Assess the Quality of Care for Childhood and Adolescent Obesity

November 11, 2008 | Program Result

The National Committee for Quality Assurance worked to identify potential quality measures that could be incorporated into HEDIS and used to improve the prevention, assessment and management of childhood and adolescent obesity.