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Sharifi M, Marshall G, Marshall R, et al. Accelerating progress in reducing childhood obesity disparities: exploring best practices of positive outliers. J Health Care Poor Underserved. 2013;24(2):193-9doi: 10.1353/hpu.2013.0099.
Sharifi, M., Marshall, G., Marshall, R., Bottino, C., Goldman, R., Sequist, T., & Taveras, E. M. (2013). Accelerating progress in reducing childhood obesity disparities: exploring best practices of positive outliers. Journal of health care for the poor and underserved, 24(2), 193-9. https://doi.org/10.1353/hpu.2013.0099
Sharifi, Mona, et al. "Accelerating progress in reducing childhood obesity disparities: exploring best practices of positive outliers." Journal of health care for the poor and underserved vol. 24,2 (2013): 193-9. doi: https://doi.org/10.1353/hpu.2013.0099
Sharifi M, Marshall G, Marshall R, Bottino C, Goldman R, Sequist T, Taveras EM. Accelerating progress in reducing childhood obesity disparities: exploring best practices of positive outliers. J Health Care Poor Underserved. 2013;24(2):193-9. doi: 10.1353/hpu.2013.0099. PMID: 23727974.
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J Health Care Poor Underserved. 2013;24(2):193-9. doi: 10.1353/hpu.2013.0099.

Accelerating progress in reducing childhood obesity disparities: exploring best practices of positive outliers.

Journal of health care for the poor and underserved

Mona Sharifi, Gareth Marshall, Richard Marshall, Clement Bottino, Roberta Goldman, Thomas Sequist, Elsie M Taveras

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  1. Obesity Prevention Program, Department of Population Medicine, Harvard Medical School and Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Institute, Boston, MA, USA.

PMID: 23727974 DOI: 10.1353/hpu.2013.0099

Abstract

Childhood obesity rates may have plateaued in some U.S. population subgroups, yet overall rates remain high and racial/ethnic and socioeconomic disparities appear to be widening. Successful strategies and best practices to inform obesity interventions and accelerate progress in reducing disparities in childhood obesity can be found among people who can be categorized as positive outliers, i.e., individuals who have succeeded, where many others have not, in changing their health behaviors, reducing their body mass index, and developing resilience in the context of adverse built and social environments. In this commentary, we discuss the central premise of a positive outlier approach and how successful strategies learned from positive outliers can be generalized and promoted to accelerate progress in childhood obesity.

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