title: Developing stories from the field to highlight policy, systems, and environmental approaches in obesity prevention.
abstract: As obesity prevention initiatives increasingly shift toward approaches focused on policy, systems, and environmental change, opportunities to share experiences from the field and lessons learned are growing. Stories are a tool to illustrate processes and outcomes of initiatives that can complement quantitative results. The use of stories, however, is not widely recognized, and the methods and tools available to develop stories are limited. Therefore, we describe the methods used to collect, develop, and disseminate stories featuring comprehensive obesity prevention efforts that various state health departments are planning and implementing. We also discuss potential challenges and provide recommendations that public health practitioners may consider when developing similar stories.
authors: Washington University, Campus Box 1196, One Brookings Dr, St. Louis, MO 63130-4899, USA. MZwald@wustl.edu
authors: Marissa
authors: M
authors: Zwald
authors: Jan
authors: J
authors: Jernigan
authors: Gayle
authors: G
authors: Payne
authors: Rosanne
authors: R
authors: Farris
mesh_terms: D000739:Anecdotes as Topic; D003159:Community-Institutional Relations; D003625:Data Collection / Q000379:methods / Q000592:standards; D004282:Documentation / Q000379:methods* / Q000592:standards; D006291:Health Policy; D006293:Health Promotion / Q000379:methods*; D006801:Humans; D033181:Information Dissemination; D009765:Obesity / Q000517:prevention & control*; D015279:Organizational Culture; D017410:Practice Guidelines as Topic; D036301:Qualitative Research