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China – seven cities
   
 

Prevention and control of tobacco use and obesity through integrated community-based interventions in urban and rural chinese communities.

Principal investigator

Lee Liming, MD, MPH

Co-principal investigator

Anderson Johnson, PhD

Intervention type

Community intervention

Targeted population

Seven cities from the China Seven Cities Study

Target factors

Risk factors    Diseases 
  • Tobacco use
  • Nutrition/diet
  • Physical inactivity
  • Obesity
 
  • Chronic diseases

Purpose/Goals

To develop and implement community-based programmes for obesity prevention and smoking cessation through family-centred programmes with separate strategies for different age bands: infancy/early childhood, middle/late childhood, adolescence, adulthood, and later life.