Personal qualities which suit paediatrics Patience, sensitivity, emotional resilience Communication skills Team working Informality Sense of humour Flexible, opportunistic Committed to child health Hopefully the experience of being part of…
6 Fetal medicine Chapter map Multidisciplinary collaboration is the key to fetal medicine. Good contraceptive advice is important for the young person, while assisted conception allows more couples the joy…
Summary and recommendations for research and practice Social marketing is one of many tools available for changing behavior; it applies commercial marketing principles to achieve socially desirable goals. Seven overarching…
Summary and recommendations for research and practice Well-evaluated community-based obesity prevention programs are needed to provide the evidence of effectiveness of such approaches. Selection of priority communities for program implementation…
Summary and recommendations for research and practice Developing countries are faced with the double burden of malnutrition. However, as income rises, the problem of obesity becomes progressively more important. In…
Summary and recommendations for research and practice Definitions distinguish between monitoring and screening. Monitoring is purposive, systematic measuring to determine trends over time, variation between populations or places, and so…
Summary and recommendations for research and practice Knowledge translation and exchange (KTE) processes are intended to facilitate the creation and application of knowledge. To best support obesity prevention knowledge translation…
Summary and recommendations for practice Interventions should be complex and ecological in nature, addressing the multiple and interactive influences on obesity, of which the primary school is one part. Interventions…
Introduction As the foregoing chapters indicate, obesity has become a prevalent disease among children and adolescents worldwide and in most countries, the prevalence continues to increase. The causes of childhood…
Summary and recommendations for practice Key elements in converting academic analyses into policy implementation Prepare groundwork by producing coherent evidence, reports and briefing papers, to promote public and political awareness….
