title: Combating obesity through the built environment: is there a clear path to success?
abstract: This article focuses on how an often-overlooked portion of PPACA, "Community Transformation Grants," might close the evidence gap in the relationship between obesity and the built environment and provide a pathway to effectively address this medically and economically costly epidemic.
authors.affiliation: University of Georgia, GA, USA.
authors.forename: Fazal
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Khan
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D002648:Child; D002958:City Planning; D004779:Environment Design; D018166:Health Care Reform; D006291:Health Policy; D006293:Health Promotion / Q000379:methods*; D006801:Humans; D009765:Obesity / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000517:prevention & control*; D058991:Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act; D014481:United States / Q000453:epidemiology