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Informationen zum Autor 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 Nutrition Sciences and Director, WHO Collaborating Centre for Obesity Prevention, Deakin University, Melbourne, Australia Jacob C. Seidell, PhD Professor of Nutrition and Health; Director, Institute of Health Sciences, EMGO Institute for Health and Care Research, VU University and VU University Medical Center, Amsterdam, The Netherlands Ricardo Uauy PhD MD Professor, Nutrition and Public Health Intervention, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London, UK and Institute of Nutrition, INTA - University of Chile, Santiago, Chile Klappentext Obesity is one of the biggest public health challenges in the 21st century. Devising effective policy and practice to combat childhood obesity is a high priority for many governments and health professionals internationally. This book brings together contributors from around the world and showcases the latest evidence-based research on community and policy interventions to prevent unhealthy weight gain and improve the health and well-being of children. The authors highlight from the evidence available what is and what is not effective and provide recommendations on how to implement and evaluate promising interventions for obesity prevention. This book is an essential read for all public health practitioners, early childhood professionals, health care providers and clinicians working to reduce the prevalence of childhood obesity in their communities. Zusammenfassung Written by authors from the Cochrane Collaboration and WHO sponsored symposium on obesity! this book provides evidence-based reviews of what is and what is not effective in preventing overweight and obesity and reducing the incidence and prevalence. 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 ( Mickey Chopra ). 3 Childhood obesity prevention overview ( Ricardo Uauy, Rishi Caleyachetty, Boyd Swinburn ). 4 No Country for Fat Children? Ethical questions concerning community 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 ( Boyd Swinburn ). 7 Evidence of multi setting approaches for obesity prevention: translation to best practice ( Andrea Sanigorski, Christina Economos ). 8 Evidence of the influence of home and family environment ( Johannes Brug, Saskia te Velde, Ilse de Bourdeaudhuij, Stef Kremers ). 9 Obesity prevention in early childhood ( Ladda Mo-suwan, Andrea Sanigorski ). 10 Obesity Prevention in primary school settings: evidence from intervention 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, active transport, physical activity, and obesity ( Carolyn Whitzman, Vivian Romero, Mitch Duncan, Carey Curtis, Paul Tranter, Matthew Burke ). 14 Evidence on the food environment and obesity ( Deborah Cohen ). 15 Foo...
