Research on the effects of policy and the economy on obesity


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	-	Advocating for Public Policy Change to Promote Healthy Weight

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	-	Community Programs Promote Healthy Eating and Physical Activity in the Bay Area

	-	Obesity Prevention Science

	-	Obesity-Related Basic and Translational Science

	-	Obesity-Related Clinical Research and Clinical Trials

	-	Packard Pediatric Weight Control Program

	-	Pediatric Weight Clinic

	-	Public Policy Research on Obesity

	-	Training and Professional Education in Childhood and Adolescent Obesity



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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.

Lucile Packard Children's Hospital is located in Palo Alto, adjacent to Stanford University Hospital, approximately 20 miles north of San Jose, CA and 40 miles south of San Francisco.

Lucile Packard Children's Hospital
725 Welch Road
Palo Alto, California 94304
(650) 497-8000