Programming towards Childhood Obesity

[Childhood obesity--towards effectiveness].

OBJECTIVE To review therapeutic approaches to childhood obesity and also its diagnosis and prevention. SOURCES OF DATA Searches were performed of scientific papers held on the MEDLINE, Ovid, Highwire and Scielo databases. Keywords utilized were: "childhood", "obesity" and a variety of combinations of this term with "treatment", "prevention" and "consequence". The search returned papers includ...

paradigm shift of health towards obesity in childhood

Towards Health in All Policies for Childhood Obesity Prevention

The childhood obesity epidemic can be best tackled by means of an integrated approach, which is enabled by integrated public health policies, or Health in All Policies. Integrated policies are developed through intersectoral collaboration between local government policy makers from health and nonhealth sectors. Such intersectoral collaboration has been proved to be difficult. In this study, we ...

obesity in childhood

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ABC of obesity. Childhood obesity.

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