This issue develops a concise and actionable plan for measuring the nation's progress in obesity prevention efforts--specifically, the success of policy and environmental strategies recommended in the 2012 IOM report This book offers a framework that will provide guidance for systematic and routine planning, implementation, and evaluation of the advancement of obesity prevention efforts.

This framework is for specific use with the goals and strategies from the 2012 report and can be used to assess the progress made in every community and throughout the country, with the ultimate goal of reducing the obesity epidemic. It offers potentially valuable guidance in improving the quality and effect of the actions being implemented.

Table of Contents
Summary
1 Introduction
2 Improving the Usefulness of Obesity Evaluation Information to Potential Users
3 Framework for Evaluation
4 Indicators for the Evaluation Plans
5 Evaluating Progress in Promoting Health Equity: A Review of Methods and Tools for Measurement
6 National Obesity Evaluation Plan
7 Community Health Assessment and Surveillance
8 Monitoring and Summative Evaluation of Community Interventions
9 Systems and Evaluation: Placing a Systems Approach in Context
10 Taking Action: Recommendations for Evaluating Progress of Obesity Prevention Efforts
Appendixes
A Acronyms
B Glossary
C Guiding Principles for Evaluation
D Table of Indicator Data Sources
E Disparities Tables
F National Plan Resources
G Community Health Assessment and Surveillance Resources
H Community Intervention Resources
I Panel Agenda
J Committee Biographies

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