Obesity prevention in children and young people: what policy actions are needed?
Overweight and obesity in childhood and adolescence are associated with adverse health consequences throughout the lifecourse. Rates of childhood overweight and obesity have reached alarming proportions in many countries and pose an urgent and serious challenge. Policy responses across the world hav...
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| author | William Bellew Adrian Bauman James Kite Bridget Foley Lindsey Reece Margaret Thomas Seema Mihrshahi Lesley King |
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| description | Overweight and obesity in childhood and adolescence are associated with adverse health consequences throughout the lifecourse. Rates of childhood overweight and obesity have reached alarming proportions in many countries and pose an urgent and serious challenge. Policy responses across the world have been piecemeal. Evidence based policy actions and interventions are available to build a comprehensive approach to overweight and obesity but, in most countries, a narrow selection of interventions are chosen, often implemented over short time periods and typically with small-scale investment. The most cost-effective policy actions are rarely selected, or only partially adopted. Genuinely comprehensive, long-term population-wide approaches are scant. Leading-edge fiscal and regulatory strategies face aggressive, often effective, opposition from lobby groups. We outline the policy actions, governance and accountability mechanisms needed to tackle this global epidemic. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-bcd9c179c4234992bf9c46da613796c32022-12-22T00:54:43ZengSax InstitutePublic Health Research & Practice2204-20912019-03-0129110.17061/phrp2911902Obesity prevention in children and young people: what policy actions are needed?William Bellew 0Adrian Bauman1James Kite2Bridget Foley3Lindsey Reece4Margaret Thomas5Seema Mihrshahi6Lesley King7Prevention Research Collaboration, Sydney School of Public Health, University of Sydney, NSW, AustraliaPrevention Research Collaboration, Sydney School of Public Health, University of Sydney, NSW, Australia Prevention Research Collaboration, Sydney School of Public Health, University of Sydney, NSW, AustraliaPrevention Research Collaboration, Sydney School of Public Health, University of Sydney, NSW, Australia Prevention Research Collaboration, Sydney School of Public Health, University of Sydney, NSW, AustraliaPrevention Research Collaboration, Sydney School of Public Health, University of Sydney, NSW, Australia Prevention Research Collaboration, Sydney School of Public Health, University of Sydney, NSW, Australia Prevention Research Collaboration, Sydney School of Public Health, University of Sydney, NSW, Australia Overweight and obesity in childhood and adolescence are associated with adverse health consequences throughout the lifecourse. Rates of childhood overweight and obesity have reached alarming proportions in many countries and pose an urgent and serious challenge. Policy responses across the world have been piecemeal. Evidence based policy actions and interventions are available to build a comprehensive approach to overweight and obesity but, in most countries, a narrow selection of interventions are chosen, often implemented over short time periods and typically with small-scale investment. The most cost-effective policy actions are rarely selected, or only partially adopted. Genuinely comprehensive, long-term population-wide approaches are scant. Leading-edge fiscal and regulatory strategies face aggressive, often effective, opposition from lobby groups. We outline the policy actions, governance and accountability mechanisms needed to tackle this global epidemic.http://www.phrp.com.au/issues/march-2019-volume-29-issue-1/obesity-prevention-in-children-and-young-people-what-policy-actions-are-needed/ |
| spellingShingle | William Bellew Adrian Bauman James Kite Bridget Foley Lindsey Reece Margaret Thomas Seema Mihrshahi Lesley King Obesity prevention in children and young people: what policy actions are needed? Public Health Research & Practice |
| title | Obesity prevention in children and young people: what policy actions are needed? |
| title_full | Obesity prevention in children and young people: what policy actions are needed? |
| title_fullStr | Obesity prevention in children and young people: what policy actions are needed? |
| title_full_unstemmed | Obesity prevention in children and young people: what policy actions are needed? |
| title_short | Obesity prevention in children and young people: what policy actions are needed? |
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