This study will use integrated conceptual framework, innovative statistical analysis approaches, and rich data from multiple sources to study how complex factors may affect childhood obesity and test potential intervention options.
China offers an unprecedented opportunity for systems-oriented pediatric obesity research considering its large population size, area and regional contextual variation; the rapid economic growth and many social- environmental transformations over the past 2-3 decades including dramatic changes in its food systems and food environment.
The System-oriented Global Childhood Obesity Intervention Program is an international collaborative that brings together researchers in childhood obesity and related research fields worldwide to fight the global childhood epidemic.
