NOO works in partnership with the Obesity Learning Centre
News
Key National Obesity Observatory news items are listed here.
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....
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:...