Obesity Interventions in Underserved Communities: Evidence and Directions
A groundbreaking new book on obesity prevention, co-edited by MPRC faculty associate Ruth Enid Zambrana, will be published in November 2014 by Johns Hopkins University Press. Obesity Interventions in Underserved Communities: Evidence and Directions draws upon the work of a wide range of expert authors to present effective ideas for treating and limiting obesity in communities. This book gives analysis of the literature of society and health (e.g., the efficiency of preschool obesity prevention programs), as well as commentaries that form our insight of particular parts of the obesity epidemic, and research on creative approaches to combating obesity in racial/ethnic minority groups. The literature reviews, commentaries, and field reports collected in this volume address obesity prevention and treatment programs executed across a range of underserved populations, particularly for children and adolescents.
Please join the editors for a book launch reception to be held at the annual meeting of the American Public Health Association in New Orleans. The reception will be in room 224 of the Ernest N. Morial Convention Center on November 17th at 6:00 PM.
Ruth Enid Zambrana is a professor in the Department of Women’s Studies and the director of the Consortium on Race, Gender, and Ethnicity at the University of Maryland, College Park. She is an adjunct professor of family medicine at the University of Maryland School of Medicine. Her co-editors for this volume are Virginia M. Brennan (Meharry Medical College) and Shiriki K. Kumanyika (University of Pennsylvania, Perelman School of Medicine).