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The workshop was convened by the Roundtable on Obesity Solutions, which is part of the Health and Medicine Division of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. Bill Purcell, currently with Farmer Purcell White & Lassiter, PLLC, and former mayor of Nashville, Tennessee, introduced the workshop and 1 The planning committee's role was limited to planning the workshop, and this Proceedings of a Workshop was prepared by the workshop rapporteur with staff assistance as a factual summary of what occurred at the workshop.
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The roundtable has focused on the current state of obesity solutions and how to drive progress. Through meetings, public workshops, publications, and four innovation collaboratives, the roundtable serves as a trusted venue for in spiring and developing multisector collaborations and policy initiatives to prevent and treat obesity and its adverse consequences throughout the entire life span and eliminate obesity-related health disparities, as well as highlighting promising solutions to overcome challenges in implementation and scalability.
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• Although there is growing evidence that the built environment affects health, public health officials are not involved in deci sion making regarding the built environment, although recent efforts have highlighted the linkages between public health and urban planning. In his introductory remarks, James Sallis, distinguished professor of family medicine and public health, University of California, San Diego, provided a broad overview of how the built environment can affect weight.
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Sallis observed that despite growing evidence of environmental influences on health, health care providers and public health officials are not the ones making decisions about parks or transportation. He argued that changing the built environment requires new partnerships among multiple sectors, including retail food, city planning, urban design, real estate, transportation, architecture, parks and recreation, criminology, economics, law, advocacy, and public health.
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Chapter 3 contains three case studies from leaders who are changing the built environment at the local, regional, and state levels. Chapter 4 addresses a challenge in using the built environment to advance obesity solutions: making healthy environments equitably available.
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