Childhood Obesity Prevention — Focusing on Population-Level Interventions and Equity

Gortmaker, Steven L. Ph.D.
Bleich, Sara N. Ph.D.
Williams, David R. Ph.D.

From the Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences (S.L.G., D.R.W.), and the Department of Health Policy and Management (S.N.B.), Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston.

This article was published on February 17, 2024, at NEJM.org.

Disclosure forms provided by the authors are available at NEJM.org.

New England Journal of Medicine 390(8):p 681-683, February 22, 2024. | DOI: 10.1056/NEJMp2313666

Childhood Obesity Prevention

Although new weight-loss drugs are important, scholars and policymakers shouldn't lose sight of population-level strategies that can prevent excess weight gain and obesity among children in the first place.