31 Working in primary care
Summary and recommendations for research and practice Primary care is an important setting to assess and reduce risk of childhood obesity during the antenatal, infancy, childhood and adolescent stages. Maternal…
30 Working with schools
Summary and recommendations for research and practice Dealing with obesity in schools includes promoting healthy eating, physical activity and mental health. School-based interventions have proven moderately effective in preventing obesity,…
29 Obesity in early childhood and working in pre-school settings
Summary and recommendations for research and practice The new WHO growth standards for children aged 0–5 years are a major improvement on previous reference standards. The risk of obesity is…
27 Community capacity building
Summary and recommendations for research and practice For healthy eating and physical activity to become the norm for children, the places where they live, learn and play need to foster…
1 The childhood obesity epidemic
Summary Childhood obesity can be measured in various ways, but applying a single method across all available data shows a rapid rise in the numbers of children affected. Very few…
16 Poverty, household food insecurity and obesity in children
Summary In this chapter we discuss the: definition of poverty and financial stress; definition of household food insecurity; prevalence of food insecurity in children in countries with developed and developing…
24 The role of policy in preventing childhood obesity
Summary Policies are statements of intent about action and they can shape the components of the food system and/or physical activity environment to help prevent obesity among children. The role…
23 The role of advocacy
Summary Advocacy is an important component of any strategy to effect improvements in public health outcomes. Advocacy should challenge vested interests, promote policy solutions, engage with government and challenge community…
6 Evidence framework for childhood obesity prevention
Summary and recommendations for practice There are complex evidence needs for preventing childhood obesity. The International Obesity Taskforce has developed an evidence framework for obesity prevention and it poses five…
13 Links between children’s independent mobility, active transport, physical activity and obesity
Summary and recommendations for practice Internationally, the past 40 years have seen a number of inter-related trends in developed Anglo-American countries, including radically declining levels of children’s independent mobility (CIM),…
