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Obesity in children and adolescents

 

Asia

• Asia Pacific Journal of Clinical Nutrition
  • Childhood obesity in Asia: the value of accurate body composition methodology [2014]

Australia

• Public Health Research and Practice
  • Aboriginal childhood overweight and obesity: the need for Aboriginal designed and led initiatives [2019]
  • Codesign of the Population Health Information Management System to measure reach and practice change of childhood obesity programs [2018]

Canada

• Canadian Paediatric Society
  • Promoting Optimal Monitoring of Child Growth in Canada: Using the New WHO Growth Charts [2010]

• Paediatrics & Child Health
  • Canadian Pediatric Endocrine Group extension to WHO growth charts: Why bother? [2013]

China

• PLoS ONE
  • Body Mass Index Is Better than Other Anthropometric Indices for Identifying Dyslipidemia in Chinese Children with Obesity [2016]

Europe

• European Association for the Study of Obesity
  • Childhood Obesity Is a Chronic Disease Demanding Specific Health Care - a Position Statement from the Childhood Obesity Task Force (COTF) of the European Association for the Study of Obesity (EASO) [2015]

• European Childhood Obesity Group
  • The Assessment of Eating Behaviour in Children Who Are Obese: A Psychological Approach. A Position Paper from the European Childhood Obesity Group [2014]
  • The ECOG Free Obesity eBook

• WHO Regional Office for Europe
  • Mapping the health system response to childhood obesity in the WHO European Region: an overview and country perspectives [2019]

India

• Indian Academy of Pediatrics
  • Revised Indian Academy of Pediatrics 2015 growth charts for height, weight and body mass index for 5–18-year-old Indian children [2015]

Ireland, United Kingdom

• BMC Public Health
  • Mediators of socioeconomic differences in overweight and obesity among youth in Ireland and the UK (2011-2021): a systematic review [2022]

Italy

• Italian Journal of Pediatrics
  • Diagnosis, treatment and prevention of pediatric obesity: consensus position statement of the Italian Society for Pediatric Endocrinology and Diabetology and the Italian Society of Pediatrics [2018]

Mexico

• Nutrición Hospitalaria
  • Accuracy of body mass index for age to diagnose obesity in Mexican schoolchildren [2015]

Middle East, North Africa

• Advances in Pediatric Research
  • A systematic review of childhood obesity in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region: Health impact and management [2017]

• BMC Pediatrics
  • Early childhood obesity: a survey of knowledge and practices of physicians from the Middle East and North Africa [2017]

Netherlands

• BMC Health Services Research
  • Health care providers’ perceived barriers to and need for the implementation of a national integrated health care standard on childhood obesity in the Netherlands – a mixed methods approach [2016]

New Zealand

• Ministry of Health New Zealand
  • Clinical Guidelines for Weight Management in New Zealand Children and Young People [2016]

Poland

• Nutrients
  • Childhood Obesity: Position Statement of Polish Society of Pediatrics, Polish Society for Pediatric Obesity, Polish Society of Pediatric Endocrinology and Diabetes, the College of Family Physicians in Poland and Polish Association for Study on Obesity [2022]

Republic of Korea

• Pediatric Gastroenterology, Hepatology & Nutrition
  • Clinical Practice Guideline for the Diagnosis and Treatment of Pediatric Obesity: Recommendations from the Committee on Pediatric Obesity of the Korean Society of Pediatric Gastroenterology Hepatology and Nutrition [2019]

South-East Asia

• WHO Regional Office for South-East Asia
  • The double burden of malnutrition: priority actions on ending childhood obesity [2020]

United Kingdom

• BMC Public Health
  • The views of young children in the UK about obesity, body size, shape and weight: a systematic review [2011]

• Department of Health and Social Care
  • Childhood obesity: government response
  • Childhood obesity: a plan for action, chapter 2
  • Childhood obesity: a plan for action

• National Institute for Health and Care Excellence
  • Managing overweight and obesity among children and young people: lifestyle weight management services [2013]

• Public Health England
  • National child measurement programme
  • Child weight management: short conversations with families
  • Child weight management: commission and provide services

United States

• American Academy of Pediatrics
  • Clinical Practice Guideline for the Evaluation and Treatment of Children and Adolescents With Obesity [2023]
  • Stigma Experienced by Children and Adolescents With Obesity [2017]

• American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists
  • Obesity in Adolescents [2017]

• American Heart Association
  • Severe Obesity in Children and Adolescents: Identification, Associated Health Risks, and Treatment Approaches [2013]

• Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
  • CDC Grand Rounds: Childhood Obesity in the United States [2011]
  • Progress on Childhood Obesity
  • Childhood Overweight and Obesity

• Childhood Obesity
  • Children's Hospital Association Consensus Statements for Comorbidities of Childhood Obesity [2014]

• Endocrine Society
  • Pediatric Obesity—Assessment, Treatment, and Prevention: An Endocrine Society Clinical Practice Guideline [2017]

• Frontiers in Pediatrics
  • Referrals and Management Strategies for Pediatric Obesity—DocStyles Survey 2017 [2018]

WHO

• World Health Organization
  • Taking action on childhood obesity [2018]
  • Report of the Commission on Ending Childhood Obesity: implementation plan: report by the Secretariat [2017]
  • Report of the Commission on Ending Childhood Obesity: implementation plan: executive summary [2017]
  • Report of the commission on ending childhood obesity [2016]
  • Consideration of the evidence on childhood obesity for the Commission on Ending Childhood Obesity: report of the ad hoc working group on science and evidence for ending childhood obesity, Geneva, Switzerland [2016]

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