Healthy Voices – giving a voice to the youth
Today, young people under the age of 25 represent the largest part of the population. As our next generation of leaders, policymakers and workforce, we need to ensure youth health is a focal point of […]
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Today, young people under the age of 25 represent the largest part of the population. As our next generation of leaders, policymakers and workforce, we need to ensure youth health is a focal point of […]
It is not uncommon for the views and positions of stakeholders involved in a project to differ. Nonetheless, given their unique expertise, their individual contribution shouldn’t be undermined. Stakeholder engagement is a central component of […]
To promote a shared understanding of the challenges and necessity for joint actions to define and implement solutions for childhood obesity, we aim to recommend to national authorities and the European Commission a sustainability plan […]
To strengthen interdisciplinary research and foster participatory and inclusive multi-actor approaches, STOP engages with different stakeholder groups in a systematic way. The aim of this engagement is to build a space in which multiple stakeholders […]
On September 2nd, 2020, EU-projects CO-CREATE, STOP and PEN met at ECO/ICO 2020 for a joint symposium where they discussed how the three projects are trying to address some unresolved challenges around childhood obesity and […]
Food environments influence dietary choices that can have a significant impact on the prevention of childhood obesity. Many food environment interventions have been undertaken at the school level but evidence of their effectiveness in the […]
In Sweden, child health care (CHC) nurses play a key role in preventing children’s overweight and obesity, and understanding underlying factors that influence these conversations is crucial to offer support to families. We interviewed 17 […]
Estimates reveal that one in eight of the world’s children aged between five and ten years is living with obesity. Given the long-term health, social and economic consequences of childhood obesity, it is urgent to […]
The study aimed to explore the extent to which built environments and mobility measures impact childhood obesity. For reasons of both data availability and due to the intrinsic aim of these measures being addressed to […]
Launched by Michelle Obama in collaboration with the Obama White House and the Partnership for a Healthier America, the Drink Up campaign was a social marketing campaign undertaken to encourage healthier behaviours and decrease the […]