On the Way to Wellville: A Clinical Trial for Population Health
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A community-level clinical trial called The Way to Wellville uses a five-year competition across five (maybe six) towns under 100,000 to test coordinated interventions across schools, employers, retailers, transit and parks, with published baselines and five outcome metrics (obesity rate, graduation, etc.), a requirement to share data, and an expectation of vendor and researcher involvement; it unexpectedly drew 42 applications (vs 20 expected) and creates a Greater Wellville network to seed reproducible, scalable changes.
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