Now Reading: Neighborhoods, Obesity, and Diabetes – A Randomized Social Experiment
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Neighborhoods, Obesity, and Diabetes — A Randomized Social Experiment – As compared with the control group, the group with a randomly assigned opportunity to use a voucher to move to a neighborhood with a lower poverty rate had lower prevalences of a BMI of 35 or more, a BMI of 40 or more, and a [...]
Now Reading: Does mobile technology support behavior change? Does it support weight loss?
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The quick answer is: don’t focus on the technology. This is not one, not two, but three papers published in the last six months, the last one last week, encompassing an impressive body of work around behavior change and weight loss, from the same research group led by Bonnie Spring, PhD, at Northwestern University. There’s [...]
Meet the Member: Kaiser Permanente Care Management Institute Annual Meeting, Behavior Change track
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View ‘KPCMI 16582′ on Flickr.com The photograph on the left is from the graphical recording of an immersive experience around the Kaiser Permanente member perspective around the issue of behavior change. The experience was created by Kaiser Permanente’s Innovation Consultancy (@kpinnovation), led by Christi Zuber (@czuber) (of course!) in partnership with the Care Management Institute, [...]
Now Reading: Walking Among Adults – United States, 2005 and 2010
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Vital Signs: Walking Among Adults — United States, 2005 and 2010. MMWR. 2012;61 Just in time for this week’s walk with a doc in Washington, DC (see: Walk With a Doc – Washington, DC , August 10, 2012 | Ted Eytan, MD), the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (@CDC , @CDCObesity) released this report [...]
Societal collaboration to reduce obesity example : School Garden, Rehoboth Beach, Delaware, USA
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As I was reading the Bipartisan Policy Center’s report “Lots to Lose” on obesity ( See: Now Reading: Bipartisan Policy Center’s Lots to Lose – We can reduce our obesity burden through societal collaboration | Ted Eytan, MD ), I actually came across a real life example in my travels. Note the date on the [...]
Now Reading: Bipartisan Policy Center’s Lots to Lose – We can reduce our obesity burden through societal collaboration
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Lots to Lose: How America’s Health and Obesity Crisis Threatens Our Economic Future. Washington, DC; 2012. This is a report about obesity, just published by the Bipartisan Policy Center ( @BPC_Bipartisan), that I have been anticipating ever since I had the pleasure of sharing the stage with people from across industries and institutions with the [...]
Now Reading: Economic Promise, Social Equity, and Health of Walkable Places in Washington, DC
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Leinberger C, Alfonzo M. Walk this Way: The Economic Promise of Walkable Places in Metropolitan Washington, DC. Washington; 2012. This is the continuation of a post I wrote yesterday (see: Photo Friday: The Social Determinants of Milo | Ted Eytan, MD). Despite what web sites like walkable.com say, Washington, DC is the most walkable city [...]