Catalyzing Medicaid-Public Health Collaboration to Reduce Childhood Obesity
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Description
Explains cross-sector interventions tested by 5 states - Arizona, Maryland, Oklahoma, Oregon, and Texas - participating in the Center for Health Care Strategies' Innovations in Childhood Obesity Initiative. Each state profile highlights how Medicaid and public health agencies are using innovative approaches to address childhood obesity in their high-risk communities. The Texas initiative focuses on childhood obesity in the rural, low-income population along the U.S./Mexico border.
Author(s)
Alexandra Maul, Stephen A. Somers
Date
11/2017
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Document
Organization
Center for Health Care Strategies
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Children and youth · Medicaid · Networking and collaboration · Obesity and weight control · Public health · U.S.-Mexico Border Region · Wellness, health promotion, and disease prevention · Arizona · Maryland · Oklahoma · Oregon · Texas