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Harnessing the potential of older adults to measure and modify their environments: long-term successes of the Neighborhood Eating and Activity Advocacy Team (NEAAT) Study

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Acknowledgments

This work was supported in part by a Clinical Translational Science Award Seed Grant awarded through the Stanford University Office of Community Health (PI: King). At the time this study was conducted, Drs. Buman and Hekler were supported by US Public Health Service grant 5T32L007034 from the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute and Dr. Otten was supported by a Nutrilite Training Grant. Drs. Winter and Sheats are currently supported by US Public Health Service grant 5T32L007034 from the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute. We thank Rhonda McClinton-Brown and Jill Evans from the Stanford University Office of Community Health for their continued support and the residents for their participation.

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  1. Stanford Prevention Research Center, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA, USA

    Sandra J Winter, Jylana L Sheats & Abby C King

  2. School of Nutrition and Health Promotion, Arizona State University, Phoenix, AZ, USA

    Matthew P Buman & Eric B Hekler

  3. School of Public Health, Department of Health Services, Nutritional Sciences Program, University of Washington, Washington, WA, USA

    Jennifer J Otten

  4. Health Policy and Planning, San Mateo County Health System, San Mateo, CA, USA

    Cathleen Baker

  5. Mid-Pen Housing, Foster City, CA, USA

    Dominique Cohen

  6. East Palo Alto Planning Division, City of East Palo Alto, CA, USA

    Brent A Butler

  7. Department of Health Research and Policy, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA, USA

    Abby C King

  8. Healthy Aging Research and Technology Solutions (HARTS) Lab, Stanford Prevention Research Centre, Stanford University School of Medicine, Suite 100, 1070 Arastradero Road, Palo Alto, CA, 94304-1334, USA

    Sandra J Winter

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Implications

Research: Empowering “citizen scientists” through advocacy and skills training to gather, analyze, and disseminate data can overcome previously identified challenges in translating research into practice and policy.

Practice: Using a citizen scientist approach can help build community capacity and facilitate community support and empowerment, which increases intervention relevance and helps to ensure its suitability to the cultural and contextual needs of the community.

Policy: Using a citizen scientist approach and “voice” can result in the allocation of substantial government dollars for neighborhood improvements that can facilitate active living and greater public health inclusion in municipal processes and activities, even in times of local government financial constraint.

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Winter, S.J., Buman, M.P., Sheats, J.L. et al. Harnessing the potential of older adults to measure and modify their environments: long-term successes of the Neighborhood Eating and Activity Advocacy Team (NEAAT) Study. Behav. Med. Pract. Policy Res. 4, 226–227 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1007/s13142-014-0264-1

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