title: Collaborating to combat childhood obesity.
abstract: Despite outstanding advances in children's health over the past several decades, rates of childhood obesity are near epidemic proportions. This paper highlights foundations' efforts to fight childhood obesity by convening organizations and effecting change at many levels of the community.
authors.affiliation: Grantmakers In Health, Washington, DC, USA. edesjardins@gih.org
authors.forename: Elise
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Desjardins
authors.forename: Anne L
authors.initials: AL
authors.lastname: Schwartz
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D001521:Behavior Therapy; D015992:Body Mass Index; D002648:Child; D002651:Child Advocacy; D002662:Child Health Services / Q000458:organization & administration; D002664:Child Nutritional Physiological Phenomena; D002675:Child, Preschool; D003153:Community Health Services / Q000458:organization & administration; D003299:Cooperative Behavior; D004032:Diet; D004734:Energy Metabolism; D015444:Exercise; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D015994:Incidence; D008297:Male; D009765:Obesity / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000517:prevention & control* / Q000628:therapy*; D050177:Overweight; D011050:Policy Making; D012307:Risk Factors; D014481:United States / Q000453:epidemiology