In the battle against childhood obesity, review effectiveness before implementing policies
Monday, March 15, 2010 - 04:14
in Health & Medicine
Before developing specific anti-obesity strategies, lawmakers and advocates should review the evidence on program effectiveness and costs in order to avoid policies that either won't work or will waste money, says Cornell economist John Cawley, in 'The Economics of Childhood Obesity,' published in the peer-reviewed journal Health Affairs, March 2, 2010...