title: The Voices for Healthy Kids Campaign and US State Legislation to Prevent Childhood Obesity.
abstract: We documented childhood obesity legislative activity in all 50 US states that occurred in parallel to the first year of Voices for Healthy Kids (Voices), a campaign to mobilize evidence-based legislation addressing childhood obesity. We identified 217 bills in the year before Voices (November 2012 to October 2013) and 304 bills at follow-up (November 2013 to October 2014). In states with active Voices grantees, the bill enactment rate was 50% higher (increasing from 10% at baseline to 15% at follow-up).
authors.affiliation: Sara N. Bleich, Hannah Jones, Marguerite O'Hara, and Lainie Rutkow are with the Department of Health Policy and Management, and Jesse Jones-Smith is with the Department of International Health, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD.
authors.forename: Sara N
authors.initials: SN
authors.lastname: Bleich
authors.affiliation: Sara N. Bleich, Hannah Jones, Marguerite O'Hara, and Lainie Rutkow are with the Department of Health Policy and Management, and Jesse Jones-Smith is with the Department of International Health, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD.
authors.forename: Jesse
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Jones-Smith
authors.affiliation: Sara N. Bleich, Hannah Jones, Marguerite O'Hara, and Lainie Rutkow are with the Department of Health Policy and Management, and Jesse Jones-Smith is with the Department of International Health, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD.
authors.forename: Hannah
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Jones
authors.affiliation: Sara N. Bleich, Hannah Jones, Marguerite O'Hara, and Lainie Rutkow are with the Department of Health Policy and Management, and Jesse Jones-Smith is with the Department of International Health, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD.
authors.forename: Marguerite
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: O'Hara
authors.affiliation: Sara N. Bleich, Hannah Jones, Marguerite O'Hara, and Lainie Rutkow are with the Department of Health Policy and Management, and Jesse Jones-Smith is with the Department of International Health, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD.
authors.forename: Lainie
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Rutkow
mesh_terms: D006291:Health Policy / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence*; D006293:Health Promotion / Q000458:organization & administration*; D006801:Humans; D063766:Pediatric Obesity / Q000517:prevention & control*; D013219:State Government; D014481:United States