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In US community efforts to prevent childhood obesity, women leaders with more experience and connections have the greatest impact

In US community efforts to prevent childhood obesity, women leaders with more experience and connections have the greatest impact
2024-09-03
(Press-News.org) In US community efforts to prevent childhood obesity, women leaders with more experience and connections have the greatest impact.

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In your coverage, please use this URL to provide access to the freely available article in PLOS Complex Systems: https://journals.plos.org/complexsystems/article?id=10.1371/journal.pcsy.0000004  

Article Title: Determinants and facilitators of community coalition diffusion of prevention efforts

Author Countries: United States

Funding: TM, MP, and CE received funding from the JPB Foundation (PR0580) https://www.jpbfoundation.org. The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.

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