Should strategies to tackle childhood obesity also focus on mental health?

Focus on Childhood and Adolescent Mental Health.

Mental Health, Wellness, and Childhood Overweight/Obesity

Childhood obesity is a growing concern, and while progress has been made to understand the association between multiple biological factors (i.e., genetics, nutrition, exercise etc.), little is known about the relationship between mental health and childhood obesity. In this paper, we offer a review of current evidence about the association between mental health and childhood obesity. A systemat...

Building grass roots capacity to tackle childhood obesity.

AIMS In recognition of the increasing problem of child obesity in London and elsewhere, we were commissioned to build capacity to tackle this major public health concern. This paper describes one of the outputs of this work: to develop and deliver effective brief intervention training on the subject of childhood healthy/unhealthy weight and obesity to be used by anyone who works with children a...

NHS spending should focus on mental rather than physical health to promote wellbeing.

Health budgets should be reallocated to focus on mental rather than physical health if the United Kingdom is serious about enhancing wellbeing, the former head of the Civil Service has said. Lord O’Donnell, now retired as cabinet secretary and currently chair of a new government initiative to promote the measurement and use of wellbeing measurements, said that the work done by the Office for Na...

Focus on women's mental health.

wo of the articles in this issue's Focus on Women's Mental Health section provide data on phenomenology and risk of psychiatric disorders in women, while 2 articles report findings from treatment trial results. The perimenopause has been identified as a high-risk time for major depressive disorder in women, as reviewed by Steinberg et al. in the introduction section of their article. The author...