The Role of Community Safety in Obesity Prevention: Exploring How Exposure to Crime and Violence Affect Physical Activity and Healthy Eating

This paper presents the main findings from the meeting with a focus on providing information that practitioners—community residents, service providers, and youth—can use. A companion paper presents the main findings of value to researchers. As one theme of the forum was the need for cross-disciplinary work that connects practitioners with researchers, this paper also briefly notes these research-related recommendations.