Obesity: Reports

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• Active travel briefings for local authorities
  The national ‘Active Travel and Health' group has produced three briefings on walking and cycling for local authorities. The briefings are in the form of short Powerpoint presentations and bring together all the latest e ...
  
  Publisher: Public Health England Obesity Knowledge and Intelligence
  Published Date: 2013
  
  
• Changes in children’s BMI between 2006/07 and 2011/12
  A PHE trend analysis report has shown that children from deprived areas are almost twice as likely to be obese than those in affluent areas. This report presents analysis of data from the first six years of the National ...
  
  Publisher: Public Health England (PHE)
  Published Date: 2013
  
  
• Obesity and critical care in children
  Obesity poses unique challenges for the ICU team. Important changes in cardiovascular, pulmonary and immunologic physiology predispose such patients to respiratory failure, thromboembolic disease, abdominal compartment s ...
  
  Publisher: Paediatrics and Child Health
  Published Date: 2013
  
  
• Type 2 diabetes mellitus: incidence, management and prognosis (journal article)
  Type 2 diabetes mellitus in childhood emerged in the UK in about 2000, and now affects about 250 children or 1% of all childhood diabetes in the UK. It characteristically presents in an obese child, around the time of pu ...
  
  Publisher: Paediatrics and Child Health
  Published Date: 2013
  
  
• National Child Measurement Programme: Briefing for elected members
  These frequently asked questions for elected members have been jointly produced by the Local Government Association and Public Health England. They address a number of transitional issues relating to the transfer of resp ...
  
  Publisher: Local Government Association (LGA)
  Published Date: 2013
  
  
• Childhood obesity: a growing global health hazard extending to adulthood
  The prevalence of obesity in children in developed and developing countries has risen dramatically in the past few decades, and is currently at epidemic proportions. Obese children are more likely to experience psycholog ...
  
  Publisher: Pediatrics & Neonatology
  Published Date: 2013
  
  
• Obesity in childhood: a secular trend or an epidemic disease?
  The concern about obesity in children has increased worldwide. The question arises, whether this trend to obesity already starts during the prenatal period and to what extent the increase of weight is related to a secula ...
  
  Publisher: Journal of Child Health Care
  Published Date: 2013
  
  
• The scale of junk food temptation
  The new research, released by the School Food Trust, highlights the most and least tempting local authorities to go to school in by ranking all 149 authorities by the number of junk food outlets that exist per secondary ...
  
  Publisher: Children's Food Trust
  Published Date: 2013
  
  
• Adolescent bariatric surgery: “you may ask yourself: how did I get here?"
  The prevention and treatment of pediatric obesity are public health priorities. Not only do obese youth carry a heightened risk of obesity-related medical comorbidities once only seen as 'adult' diseases (e.g., hypertens ...
  
  Publisher: Journal of Pediatric Psychology
  Published Date: 2013
  
  
• Measuring up - the medical profession's prescription for the nation's obesity crisis
  According to the introduction of this report, the UK is the ‘fat man’ of Europe. The latest figures from the Health Survey for England 2009-11 show that a quarter of men and women are obese (BMI over 30) and two thirds o ...
  
  Publisher: Academy of Medical Royal Colleges
  Published Date: 2013
  
  
• Beyond 2012 - outstanding physical education for all
  This report is based on evidence from inspections of physical education between September 2008 and July 2012. Her Majesty’s Inspectors and additional inspectors from Ofsted visited 120 primary schools, 110 secondary scho ...
  
  Publisher: Ofsted
  Published Date: 2013
  
  
• Changes in children’s body mass index between 2006/07 and 2011/12
  This report presents analysis of data from the first six years of the National Child Measurement Programme (NCMP) and describes the changes that have taken place across survey years in the body mass index (BMI) of childr ...
  
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  Published Date: 2013
  
  
• Children, food and obesity
  This policy report for the opposition Labour Party examines options for improving children's health, including the introduction of legal limits on the sugar, fat, and salt content of food.
  
  Publisher: The Labour Party
  Published Date: 2013
  
  
• The importance of understanding the impact of children's food marketing on the brain
  A central component of understanding the impact of the food environment on the obesity epidemic will be to explore the influence of industry-developed cues on the brain and behaviour. This article discusses how this rela ...
  
  Publisher: The Journal of Pediatrics
  Published Date: 2013
  
  
• National Child Measurement Programme: England, 2011/12 school year
  This report summarises the key findings from the Government's National Child Measurement Programme (NCMP) for England, 2011/12 school year. The report provides high-level analysis of the prevalence of underweight, health ...
  
  Publisher: The Health and Social Care Information Centre
  Published Date: 2012