TABLE 1.

Priori Coding Categories Used for the Qualitative Analysis of Meeting Transcripts

1. What is important?

Risk factors

For pediatric cancers

For cancers in adulthood

Protective factors

For pediatric cancers

For cancers in adulthood

Evidence needed to justify taking public health action

2. What is missing?

Additional data that would have the greatest impact or create tipping points for action

3. What can be done now?

The role of public health agencies

Lessons learned from other prevention efforts

Barriers to putting scientific findings into public health practice

Coordinating health promotion/disease prevention efforts toward broader shared goals

Communicating certainty or uncertainty to policy makers and the public

Avoiding unintended consequences

4. Other

A code for information not captured by the categories above