Waters / Swinburn / Seidell Preventing Childhood Obesity

Evidence Policy and Practice
1. Auflage 2011
ISBN: 978-1-4443-5929-9
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: EPUB
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E-Book, Englisch, 320 Seiten, E-Book

Reihe: Evidence-Based Medicine

Obesity is one of the biggest public health challenges in the 21stcentury. Devising effective policy and practice to combat childhoodobesity is a high priority for many governments and healthprofessionals internationally. This book brings togethercontributors from around the world and showcases the latestevidence-based research on community and policy interventions toprevent unhealthy weight gain and improve the health and well-beingof children. The authors highlight from the evidence available whatis and what is not effective and provide recommendations on how toimplement and evaluate promising interventions for obesityprevention.
This book is an essential read for all public healthpractitioners, early childhood professionals, health care providersand clinicians working to reduce the prevalence of childhoodobesity in their communities.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Waters, Elizabeth

Swinburn, Boyd

Seidell, Jacob

Uauy, Ricardo

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Section 1: The Context.
Introduction to section.
1 The childhood obesity epidemic (Tim Lobstein, Louise Baur,Rachel Jackson-Leach).
2 Lessons from the control of other epidemics (MickeyChopra).
3 Childhood obesity prevention overview (Ricardo Uauy, RishiCaleyachetty, Boyd Swinburn).
4 No Country for Fat Children? Ethical questions concerningcommunity based programs to prevent obesity (Marieke ten Have,Inez de Beaufort, Soren Holm).
5 The human rights approach to childhood obesity prevention(Naomi Priest, Boyd Swinburn, Elizabeth Waters).
Section 2: Evidence synthesis.
Introduction to section.
6 Evidence framework for childhood obesity prevention (BoydSwinburn).
7 Evidence of multi setting approaches for obesity prevention:translation to best practice (Andrea Sanigorski, ChristinaEconomos).
8 Evidence of the influence of home and family environment(Johannes Brug, Saskia te Velde, Ilse de Bourdeaudhuij, StefKremers).
9 Obesity prevention in early childhood (Ladda Mo-suwan,Andrea Sanigorski).
10 Obesity Prevention in primary school settings: evidence fromintervention studies (Juliana Kain, Yang Gao, Colleen Doak,Simon Murphy).
11 Obesity prevention in secondary schools (Lauren Prosser,Tommy Visscher, Colleen Doak, Luis A. Moreno).
12 The prevention of childhood obesity in primary care settings:evidence and practice (Karen Lock, Rebecca Hillier).
13 Links between children's independent mobility, activetransport, physical activity, and obesity (Carolyn Whitzman,Vivian Romero, Mitch Duncan, Carey Curtis, Paul Tranter, MatthewBurke).
14 Evidence on the food environment and obesity (DeborahCohen).
15 Food and beverage marketing to children (Gerard Hastings,Georgina Cairns).
16 Poverty, household food insecurity, and obesity in children(Cate Burns, SJ Jones, Edward Frongillo).
17 Socio-cultural issues and body image (Helen Mavoa, ShirikiKumanyika, Andre Renzaho).
18 Developing countries perspective on interventions to preventoverweight and obesity in children (Laura Irizarry Figueroa,Juan A. Rivera).
Section 3: Evidence generation and utilisation.
Introduction to Section.
19 Evaluation of community based obesity program interventions(Laurence Moore, Lisa Gibbs).
20 Economic evaluation of obesity interventions (Marj Moodie,Rob Carter).
21 Monitoring of childhood obesity (Jaap Seidell).
22 Knowledge translation and exchange for obesity prevention(Rebecca Armstrong, Lauren Prosser, Maureen Dobbins, ElizabethWaters).
23 The role of advocacy (Jane Martin).
Section 4: Policy and practice.
Introduction to section.
24 The role of policy in preventing childhood obesity (MarkLawrence, Boyd Swinburn).
25 Developing the political climate for action (Phil James,Neville Rigby).
26 Community interventions: planning for sustainability (AnneSimmons, Jean Michel Borys, Boyd Swinburn).
27 Community capacity building (Colin Bell, Eva Elliott, AnneSimmons).
28 Social marketing to prevent childhood obesity (NadineHenley, Sandrine Raffin).
29 Obesity in early childhood and working in pre-school settings(Andrea de Silva-Sanigorski, Camila Corvalan, RicardoUauy).
30 Working with schools (Goof Buijs, Sue Bowker).
31 Working in primary care (Raina Elley, KarenHoare).
32 Working with minority groups in developed countries (LisaGibbs, Mulugeta Abebe, Elisha Riggs).
33 Developing countries' perspective on policies and practice(Juliana Kain, Camila Corvalan, Ricardo Uauy).
34 Preventing childhood obesity: looking forward (BillDietz).

Über Autor(innen)

Elizabeth Waters, MPH, DPhil
Jack Brockhoff Chair of Child Public Health, McCaughey Centre,Melbourne School of Population Health, University of Melbourne,Melbourne, Australia
Boyd A. Swinburn MBChB, MD, FRACP
Professor of Population Health, School of Exercise and NutritionSciences and Director, WHO Collaborating Centre for ObesityPrevention, Deakin University, Melbourne, Australia
Jacob C. Seidell, PhD
Professor of Nutrition and Health; Director, Institute of HealthSciences, EMGO Institute for Health and Care Research, VUUniversity and VU University Medical Center, Amsterdam, TheNetherlands
Ricardo Uauy PhD MD
Professor, Nutrition and Public Health Intervention, LondonSchool of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London, UK and Instituteof Nutrition, INTA - University of Chile, Santiago, Chile