149 research outputs found
Policy options for responding to obesity: evaluating the options
No full textThis summary report maps the views of stakeholders involved in tackling obesity, based on an EC-funded project (Porgrow). The summary report abstracts from 10 individual country reports. The methodology is based on Prof Stirling¿s `multi-criteria mapping¿. Prof Millstone initiated and led the Porgrow project, and identifying obesity as an emerging area for applying science and technology policy is largely due to his efforts. The co-author, Dr Lobstein, was based in SPRU during the writing-up of the project. Further details are given in a special issue of Obesity Reviews (Vol. 8, Supp., May 2007, ISSN 1467-7881)
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Policy options for responding to obesity: evaluating the options
No full textThis summary report maps the views of stakeholders involved in tackling obesity, based on an EC-funded project (Porgrow). The summary report abstracts from 10 individual country reports. The methodology is based on Prof Stirling¿s `multi-criteria mapping¿. Prof Millstone initiated and led the Porgrow project, and identifying obesity as an emerging area for applying science and technology policy is largely due to his efforts. The co-author, Dr Lobstein, was based in SPRU during the writing-up of the project. Further details are given in a special issue of Obesity Reviews (Vol. 8, Supp., May 2007, ISSN 1467-7881)
sj-docx-1-inq-10.1177_00469580231154651 – Supplemental material for Childhood Overweight and Obesity in Vietnam: A Landscape Analysis of the Extent and Risk Factors
No full textSupplemental material, sj-docx-1-inq-10.1177_00469580231154651 for Childhood Overweight and Obesity in Vietnam: A Landscape Analysis of the Extent and Risk Factors by Hoang Van Minh, Dr Quynh Long Khuong, Tuan Anh Tran, Hong Phuong Do, Fiona Watson and Tim Lobstein in INQUIRY: The Journal of Health Care Organization, Provision, and Financing</p
Maternal and child obesity: some policy challenges
No full textThe recent rise in the prevalence of obesity in the UK population includes women of
reproductive age and children. For both groups there are specific health concerns
consequent on excess bodyweight, including obstetric complications, fetal growth
abnormalities and a range of obesity co-morbidities seen in children that were rarely
found in young people a generation earlier. This paper identifies some of the issues which
challenge policy-makers: guidelines for gestational weight gain and for weight loss after
pregnancy; inequalities and interventions in pregnancy; interventions to prevent child
obesity; and the role of individuals, government and the commercial sector in implementing
policies for promoting healthy weight.</jats:p
Socioeconomic patterning of childhood overweight status in Europe.
No full textThere is growing evidence of social disparities in overweight among European children. This paper examines whether there is an association between socioeconomic inequality and prevalence of child overweight in European countries, and if socioeconomic disparities in child overweight are increasing. We analyse cross-country comparisons of household inequality and child overweight prevalence in Europe and review within-country variations over time of childhood overweight by social grouping, drawn from a review of the literature. Data from 22 European countries suggest that greater inequality in household income is positively associated with both self-reported and measured child overweight prevalence. Moreover, seven studies from four countries reported on the influence of socioeconomic factors on the distribution of child overweight over time. Four out of seven reported widening social disparities in childhood overweight, a fifth found statistically significant disparities only in a small sub-group, one found non-statistically significant disparities, and a lack of social gradient was reported in the last study. Where there is evidence of a widening social gradient in child overweight, it is likely that the changes in lifestyles and dietary habits involved in the increase in the prevalence of overweight have had a less favourable impact in low socio-economic status groups than in the rest of the population. More profound structural changes, based on population-wide social and environmental interventions are needed to halt the increasing social gradient in child overweight in current and future generations
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