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…
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,…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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),…
Summary and recommendations for research To date, most health economics studies have focused on “describing” and “predicting” the magnitude of the obesity problem. This type of economic study alone does…
