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Expert Consensus and Call on Actions for Weight Management in China: Advancing Healthy China Initiative Through Strategic Actions.
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Global Health Institute, School of Public Health, Xi'an Jiaotong University Health Science Center, Xi'an City, Shaanxi Province, China.
China faces a critical public health challenge with obesity rates exceeding 50% among adults and 20% among children. In response, the National Health Commission launched a comprehensive three-year "Year of Weight Management" initiative in March 2024, further emphasized by the 36th Patriotic Health Month's theme "Healthy Towns - Healthy Weight" in April 2024. These initiatives underscore the urgent necessity for implementing comprehensive strategies to combat obesity and its associated non-communicable diseases.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFToowoomba Healthy Towns: A Citizen Science Initiative on Active Transport in Regional South East Queensland, Australia.
J Phys Act Health
November 2024
Department of Epidemiology & Population Health and of Medicine, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA, USA.
Background: Engaging in active transport will enable individuals across the life course to increase their habitual levels of physical activity. The aim of this study was to engage citizen scientists (CS) to identify factors that influence active transport in their community.
Methods: The Our Voice citizen science methodology developed at Stanford University was employed.
This paper sets out the main findings from two rounds of interviews with senior representatives from the UK's urban development industry: the third and final phase of a 3-year pilot, Moving Health Upstream in Urban Development' (UPSTREAM). The project had two primary aims: firstly, to attempt to value economically the health cost-benefits associated with the quality of urban environments and, secondly, to interview those in control of urban development in the UK in order to reveal the potential barriers to, and opportunities for, the creation of healthy urban environments, including their views on the use of economic valuation of (planetary) health outcomes. Much is known about the 'downstream' impact of urban environments on human and planetary health and about how to design and plan healthy towns and cities ('midstream'), but we understand relatively little about how health can be factored in at key governance tipping points further 'upstream', particularly within dominant private sector areas of control (e.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFHow can planning add value to obesity prevention programmes? A qualitative study of planning and planners in the Healthy Towns programme in England.
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Department of Social & Environmental Health Research, Faculty of Public Health and Policy, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London, UK.
The planning profession has been advocated as an untapped resource for obesity prevention, but little is known about how planners view their roles and responsibilities in this area. This paper investigates the role of planners in the Healthy Towns programme in England, and explores the limits and potential for obesity prevention within planning policy and practice. Using a qualitative approach, 23 planning stakeholders were interviewed, identifying the potential for planning in public health, particularly the 'health proofing' of local planning policy.
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