Aims to create a new public health approach to the prevention of weight-related disorders, one that counters the confusion and frustration from public policies, messages, and programs that recipients of prevention efforts often experience.
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Prevention of Disordered Eating through Structural Change: The Population Health Framework and Lessons from Case Studies in Intensive Community-Based Intervention
Lindsay McLaren and Niva Piran
McLaren and Piran describe the population health framework and demonstrate its application to prevention of weight-related disorders. They describe the Health Promoting School model of the European Network of Health-Promoting Schools as an example of a community-based intervention that provides a possible path to sustained, population-level prevention of disordered eating.