Public Policy Research on Obesity

Center for Healthy Weight public policy research programs look at the effects of policy and economic factors on child and adolescent obesity. These studies generally use large data sets to examine variations and/or inequalities in:

• Access to care
• Patient outcomes
• Economic and social consequences of 
  • Policies 
  • Structural and environmental factors

The results of this research:

• Help guide policymaking to reduce health disparities (differences in the quality of health and access to care) among population groups or geographic areas
  
  
• Improve the quality of medical care and public health programs and their effects on child, adolescent and family health and well-being

Local, state, national and international government and other policymakers rely upon this research.

The Center for Health Policy at Stanford University conducts innovative, multidisciplinary research on critical health policy and health care delivery issues, including childhood obesity.