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The majority of efforts to reduce childhood obesity and the other consequences of poor nutrition and inactivity still center on getting kids—or their parents— to make better choices. Yet families inhabit an environment that makes healthy choices very, very difficult. The HEAC evaluation team aims to establish the evidence base for the importance of emphasizing environmental change in all efforts to reduce childhood obesity. Learn about the questions evaluation will seek to answer as a result of the 4-year HEAC intervention, and about the methods evaluating such environmental change requires.

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Evaluation [267kb]