Book description
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.
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
