News
Key National Obesity Observatory news items are listed here.
First NOO Newsletter
The first Obesity Observatory newsletter is now available to download from the NOO publications section....
Convenience stores Change4Life
On 13 November, the Department of Health and the Association of Convenience Stores launched a Change4Life pilot in the North East to improve the quality and promotion of fresh fruit and veg available in convenience stores including Spar, Londis, Costcutter, Premier, Nisa and Mills Group....
Healthy Weight, Healthy Lives: Commissioning weight management services for children & young people
This guide has been developed to support local areas in commissioning weight management services for children and young people. It is designed to reflect the move towards world class commissioning and joint commissioning of children’s services, and complements the existing suite of Healthy Weight, Healthy Lives publications.
£30M Healthy Towns Kick Start Change4Life
Nine towns have won the opportunity to lead the way in helping their residents live healthier lives as part of the new Change4Life movement, Health Secretary Alan Johnson announced today....
The “Healthy Towns” - Dudley, Halifax (Calderdale), Sheffield, Tower Hamlets, Thetford, Middlesbrough, Manchester, Tewkesbury and Portsmouth - are part of a new coalition called Change4Life which is backed by Government, food retailers, charities and community groups....
The nine towns will share a £30 million pot from Government to encourage healthy lifestyles through increasing the opportunities for their population to be more physically active and make healthy food choices....
Change4Life
Change4Life is a new movement, supported by the Department of Health, which aims to improve children’s diets and levels of activity so reducing the threat to their future health and happiness....
Healthy Weight, Healthy Lives: A toolkit for developing local strategies.
Healthy Weight, Healthy Lives: A toolkit for developing local strategies. This document supercedes the lightening the load toolkit.
Schemes to promote healthy weight among obese and overweight children in England
The DH commissioned review of Child obesity interventions being undertaken has been released....
National Child Measurement Programme: Detailed Analysis of the 2006/07 National Dataset
This report, entitled National Child Measurement Programme: Detailed Analysis of the 2006/07 National Dataset, highlights the usefulness of the NCMP for advancing our understanding of underweight, overweight and obesity in children....
NCMP guidance for public health observatories (PHOs) - May 2008
The NCMP guidance for public health observatories (PHOs) provides information on further analyses that may be undertaken on the 2006/07 National Child Measurement Programme (NCMP) dataset in order to: ...
- produce a regional overview of the data ...
- obtain a better understanding of the epidemiology of child obesity and overweight within their area ...
- feed back useful information to PCTs ...
- help improve participation and data quality in the 2007/08 NCMP....
