title: Policy, Systems, and Environmental Approaches to Obesity Prevention: Translating and Disseminating Evidence from Practice.
abstract: To reduce obesity prevalence, public health practitioners are intervening to change health behaviors as well as the policies, systems, and environments (PSEs) that support healthy behaviors. Although the number of recommended PSE intervention strategies continues to grow, limited guidance is available on how to implement those strategies in practice. This article describes the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Center for Training and Research Translation's (Center TRT's) approach to reviewing, translating, and disseminating practitioner-developed interventions, with the goal of providing more practical guidance on how to implement PSE intervention strategies in real-world practice. As of August 2014, Center TRT had disseminated 30 practice-based PSE interventions. This article provides an overview of Center TRT's process for reviewing, translating, and disseminating practice-based interventions and offers key lessons learned during the nine years that Center TRT has engaged in this work.
authors.affiliation: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, School of Nursing, Chapel Hill, NC.
authors.forename: Jennifer
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Leeman
authors.affiliation: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Center for Health Promotion & Disease Prevention, Chapel Hill, NC.
authors.forename: Nancy
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Aycock
authors.affiliation: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Center for Health Promotion & Disease Prevention, Chapel Hill, NC.
authors.forename: Amy
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Paxton-Aiken
authors.affiliation: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Center for Health Promotion & Disease Prevention, Chapel Hill, NC.
authors.forename: Abby
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Lowe-Wilson
authors.affiliation: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Center for Health Promotion & Disease Prevention, Chapel Hill, NC ; University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Gillings School of Global Public Health, Department of Nutrition, Chapel Hill, NC.
authors.forename: Janice
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Sommers
authors.affiliation: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Division of Nutrition, Physical Activity, and Obesity, Atlanta, GA.
authors.forename: Rosanne
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Farris
authors.affiliation: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Division of Nutrition, Physical Activity, and Obesity, Atlanta, GA.
authors.forename: Diane
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Thompson
authors.affiliation: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Center for Health Promotion & Disease Prevention, Chapel Hill, NC ; University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Gillings School of Global Public Health, Department of Nutrition, Chapel Hill, NC.
authors.forename: Alice
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Ammerman
mesh_terms: D055317:Evidence-Based Practice; D006801:Humans; D033181:Information Dissemination; D009657:North Carolina; D009765:Obesity / Q000517:prevention & control*; D057170:Translational Research, Biomedical