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Obesity in children and adolescents: prevention, treatment

Africa

• International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
  • Childhood Obesity Prevention in Africa: A Systematic Review of Intervention Effectiveness and Implementation [2019]

Australia

• Australian Institute of Health and Welfare
  • Childhood overweight and obesity—the impact of the home environment [2021]

• BMC Public Health
  • Interventions to prevent or treat childhood obesity in Maori & Pacific Islanders: a systematic review [2020]

• Health Promotion Journal of Australia
  • Childhood Obesity Prevention and General Practice: A Mapping Review of Australian Clinical Resources [2025]

• Health Research Policy and Systems
  • Does citation matter? Research citation in policy documents as an indicator of research impact – an Australian obesity policy case-study [2018]

• Pediatric Obesity
  • The impact of community-based childhood obesity prevention interventions in Australia by socio-economic position: An individual participant data meta-analysis [2025]

Canada

• Canada's Drug Agency
  • Interventions for the Prevention or Management of Childhood Obesity: A Review of the Clinical Evidence [2013]

• Canadian Family Physician
  • Evaluating routine pediatric growth measurement as a screening tool for overweight and obese status [2021]

• Pediatric Obesity
  • Effectiveness of behavioural and psychological interventions for managing obesity in children and adolescents: A systematic review and meta-analysis framed using minimal important difference estimates based on GRADE guidance to inform a clinical practice guideline [2025]

Canada, Europe, United States

• Children
  • Key Gaps in the Prevention and Treatment of Obesity in Children and Adolescents: A Critical Appraisal of Clinical Guidelines [2025]

China

• Frontiers in Endocrinology
  • Effectiveness of lifestyle interventions for treatment of overweight/obesity among children in China: A systematic review and meta-analysis [2022]

• PLoS ONE
  • Systematic review and meta-analysis of school-based obesity interventions in mainland China [2017]

Colombia

• Preventing Chronic Disease: Public Health Research, Practice and Policy
  • Individual, Family, and Community Predictors of Overweight and Obesity Among Colombian Children and Adolescents [2014]

Denmark

• Health Research Policy and Systems
  • Involving national stakeholders in a systems approach to map drivers of childhood obesity and actions to prevent childhood obesity in Denmark: the Generation Healthy Kids Study [2025]

Europe

• BMC Public Health
  • Establishing consensus on key public health indicators for the monitoring and evaluating childhood obesity interventions: a Delphi panel study [2020]

• European Association for the Study of Obesity
  • The Ethics of Childhood Obesity Treatment - from the Childhood Obesity Task Force (COTF) of European Association for the Study of Obesity (EASO) [2014]

• European Childhood Obesity Group
  • Adherence to Treatment Recommendations in Chronic Disease: What Is (Im)Possible? Expert Conclusions from the 30th ECOG Workshop 2021 [2022]

• European Society of Cardiology
  • Lifestyle interventions to change trajectories of obesity-related cardiovascular risk from childhood onset to manifestation in adulthood: a joint scientific statement of the task force for childhood health of the European Association of Preventive Cardiology and the European Childhood Obesity Group [2023]

• Nutrition Reviews
  • Effectiveness of social marketing strategies to reduce youth obesity in European school-based interventions: a systematic review and meta-analysis [2016]

• Pediatric Obesity
  • A school-based intervention for obesity prevention and management: Effectiveness and determinants of its success. The Feel4Diabetes study [2025]

Germany

• Obesity Facts
  • Current Guidelines for Obesity Prevention in Childhood and Adolescence [2018]

Gulf Cooperation Council

• Systematic Reviews
  • A systematic review of school-based weight-related interventions in the Gulf Cooperation Council countries [2024]

High-income countries

• Obesity Reviews
  • The effectiveness of interventions during the first 1,000 days to improve energy balance-related behaviors or prevent overweight/obesity in children from socio-economically disadvantaged families of high-income countries: a systematic review [2023]

India

• Indian Journal of Endocrinology and Metabolism
  • Determinants, consequences and prevention of childhood overweight and obesity: An Indian context [2014]

• Journal of Family Medicine and Primary Care
  • Optimizing the impact of health and related programmes / policies to address the issue of Childhood Obesity in India----A narrative review [2021]

International

• Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences
  • Behavior-change lifestyle interventions for the treatment of obesity in children and adolescents: A scoping review [2025]

• BioMed Research International
  • Systematic Review of Setting-Based Interventions for Preventing Childhood Obesity [2021]

• BMC Public Health
  • Identifying behaviour change techniques in school-based childhood obesity prevention interventions: a secondary analysis of a systematic review [2025]
  • The effect of psychological interventions targeting overweight and obesity in school-aged children: a systematic review and meta-analysis [2023]

• Bulletin of the World Health Organization
  • Healthy weight in childhood [2023]

• Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews
  • Interventions to prevent obesity in children aged 2 to 4 years old [2025]
  • Interventions to prevent obesity in children aged 5 to 11 years old [2024]
  • Interventions to prevent obesity in children aged 12 to 18 years old [2024]
  • Interventions to prevent obesity in school-aged children 6-18 years: An update of a Cochrane systematic review and meta-analysis including studies from 2015-2021 [2022]

• Cureus
  • Impact of School-Based Interventions on Pediatric Obesity: A Systematic Review [2023]

• EClinicalMedicine
  • Interventions to prevent obesity in school-aged children 6-18 years: An update of a Cochrane systematic review and meta-analysis including studies from 2015-2021 [2022]

• Frontiers in Nutrition
  • Guidelines for treating child and adolescent obesity: A systematic review [2022]

• Frontiers in Pediatrics
  • Barriers and facilitators of childhood obesity prevention policies: A systematic review and meta-synthesis [2023]
  • Prevalence of and Trends in the Co-Existence of Obesogenic Behaviors in Adolescents From 15 Countries [2021]

• Frontiers in Public Health
  • Comparative effectiveness of school-based obesity prevention programs for children and adolescents: a systematic review and network meta-analysis [2024]

• Global Health Research and Policy
  • How are adolescents engaged in obesity and chronic disease prevention policy and guideline development? A scoping review [2023]

• International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity
  • A secondary analysis of the childhood obesity prevention Cochrane Review through a wider determinants of health lens: implications for research funders, researchers, policymakers and practitioners [2021]

• International Pediatric Association
  • Childhood Obesity as a Global Problem: a Cross-sectional Survey on Global Awareness and National Program Implementation [2024]

• JAMA Network Open
  • Interventions for Childhood Central Obesity: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis [2025]

• Obesity Reviews
  • Umbrella review of systematic reviews to inform the development and translation of community-based childhood obesity prevention interventions [2025]
  • Clinical practice guidelines for the prevention of childhood obesity: A systematic review of quality and content [2022]

• Pediatric Obesity
  • The long-term effects of primary school-based obesity prevention interventions in children: A systematic review and meta-analysis [2023]

• United Nations Children's Fund - UNICEF
  • Prevention of Overweight and Obesity in Children and Adolescents

• World Obesity Federation
  • Childhood obesity treatment: government guidelines & recommendations

Ireland

• BMC Public Health
  • Barriers and facilitators to adoption, implementation and sustainment of obesity prevention interventions in schoolchildren– a DEDIPAC case study [2019]

Italy

• Italian Journal of Pediatrics
  • The treatment of obesity in children and adolescents: consensus position statement of the Italian society of pediatric endocrinology and diabetology, Italian Society of Pediatrics and Italian Society of Pediatric Surgery [2023]

Japan, United States

• Nutrients
  • A Multi-Level Approach to Childhood Obesity Prevention and Management: Lessons from Japan and the United States [2025]

Latin America

• Nutrients
  • School-Based Interventions to Prevent Overweight in Latin America: A Scoping Review and Policy Analysis [2025]

Lebanon

• Frontiers in Public Health
  • Time to Act: Lessons Learnt from the First Pilot School-Based Intervention Study from Lebanon to Prevent and Reduce Childhood Obesity [2015]

Low and middle income countries

• Lancet Global Health
  • Interventions to reduce and prevent childhood obesity in low-income and middle-income countries: a systematic review and meta-analysis [2023]

Mexico

• Global Health Action
  • Obesity-promoting factors in Mexican children and adolescents: challenges and opportunities [2016]

• Nutrition Reviews
  • Interventions to Treat Obesity in Mexican Children and Adolescents: Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis [2022]

• Prevention Science
  • Interventions to Prevent Obesity in Mexican Children and Adolescents: Systematic Review [2022]

Netherlands

• BMC Health Services Research
  • The development of the Dutch "National model integrated care for childhood overweight and obesity" [2023]

• PLoS ONE
  • Prevalence of overweight among Dutch primary school children living in JOGG and non-JOGG areas [2021]
  • A set of pedagogical recommendations for improving the integrated approach to childhood overweight and obesity: A Delphi study [2020]

Republic of Korea

• Healthcare Informatics Research
  • Development of Child-Teen Obesity Treatment Service Platform [2016]

• Journal of Korean Medical Science
  • Barriers and Facilitators of Pediatric Obesity Prevention and Management (POPM) Programs in Korea: Focusing on the Questionnaire About the Linkage in Community Level [2024]

Spain

• Journal of Epidemiology
  • Cost-Effectiveness of the EdAl (Educació en Alimentació) Program: A Primary School-Based Study to Prevent Childhood Obesity [2018]

Thailand

• Nutrients
  • Progress towards Achieving the Recommendations of the Commission on Ending Childhood Obesity: A Comprehensive Review and Analysis of Current Policies, Actions and Implementation Gaps in Thailand [2021]

United Kingdom

• BMJ Open
  • Assessing the impact of obesity interventions in the early years: a systematic review of UK-based studies [2024]

• International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
  • Preventing Childhood Obesity in Primary Schools: A Realist Review from UK Perspective [2021]

• National Institute for Health and Care Excellence
  • Evidence reviews for the effectiveness of healthy living programmes in preventing overweight and obesity in children and young people [2025]
  • Obesity in children and young people: prevention and lifestyle weight management programmes [2015]

• Obesity
  • Psychological well-being and the reversal of childhood overweight and obesity in the UK: a longitudinal national cohort study [2024]

• Office for Health Improvement and Disparities
  • Promoting healthy weight in children, young people and families

• PLoS ONE
  • Obesity prevention in the early years: A mapping study of national policies in England from a behavioural science perspective [2020]

• Public Health England
  • Healthier weight conversations: support for professionals
  • Family weight management: changing behaviour techniques

• UK National Screening Committee
  • Obesity

United States

• Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
  • Interventions for High Body Mass Index in Children and Adolescents: An Evidence Update for the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force [2024]
  • Screening for Obesity and Interventions for Weight Management in Children and Adolescents [2017]

• American Academy of Pediatrics
  • The Role of the Pediatrician in the Promotion of Healthy, Active Living [2024]
  • Appraisal of Clinical Care Practices for Child Obesity Treatment. Part II: Comorbidities [2023]
  • Appraisal of Clinical Care Practices for Child Obesity Treatment. Part I: Interventions [2023]
  • Preventing Obesity and Eating Disorders in Adolescents [2016]

• American Heart Association
  • Approaches to the Prevention and Management of Childhood Obesity: The Role of Social Networks and the Use of Social Media and Related Electronic Technologies [2013]
  • Evaluating Parents and Adult Caregivers as “Agents of Change” for Treating Obese Children: Evidence for Parent Behavior Change Strategies and Research Gaps: a scientific statement from the American Heart Association [2012]
  • Overweight in Children and Adolescents: Pathophysiology, Consequences, Prevention, and Treatment [2005]

• American Journal of Preventive Medicine
  • Pediatric Obesity Prevention and Treatment Among Hispanics: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis [2022]

• American Psychological Association
  • Clinical Practice Guideline for the Treatment of Obesity and Overweight in Children and Adolescents

• Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
  • Preventing Childhood Obesity: 6 Things Families Can Do

• Endocrine Society
  • Prevention and Treatment of Pediatric Obesity: An Endocrine Society Clinical Practice Guideline Based on Expert Opinion [2008]

• JMIR Pediatrics and Parenting
  • Technology-Based Obesity Prevention Interventions Among Hispanic Adolescents in the United States: Scoping Review [2022]

• Journal of Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities
  • Racial/Ethnic Differences in the Age-Varying Association Between Adherence to 8-5-2-1-0 Guidelines in Adolescents with High BMI [2025]

• Nutrients
  • Lifestyle Behaviors Associated with Weight Loss Intent in Adolescent Girls: Findings from the US 2021 National Youth Risk Behavior Survey [2025]

• Obesity Medicine Association
  • Medication-induced weight gain and advanced therapies for the child with overweight and obesity: An Obesity Medicine Association (OMA) Clinical Practice Statement 2022 [2022]

• Preventive Medicine Reports
  • E-cigarette and marijuana use and the attainment of obesity prevention guidelines among U.S. adolescents [2021]

• Seminars in Pediatric Neurology
  • Adolescent Bariatric Surgery Program Characteristics: The Teen Longitudinal Assessment of Bariatric Surgery (Teen-LABS) Study Experience [2013]

• Society for Adolescent Health and Medicine
  • Preventing and Treating Adolescent Obesity: A Position Paper of the Society for Adolescent Health and Medicine [2016]

• Society of Behavioral Medicine
  • Curbing Summertime Weight Gain among America’s Youth [2017]

• U.S. Preventive Services Task Force
  • High Body Mass Index in Children and Adolescents: Interventions [2024]

Western countries

• BMC Pediatrics
  • Family systems approaches in pediatric obesity management: a scoping review [2024]

WHO

• World Health Organization
  • A primary health care approach to obesity prevention and management in children and adolescents: policy brief [2023]
  • Guideline: assessing and managing children at primary health-care facilities to prevent overweight and obesity in the context of the double burden of malnutrition [2017]
  • Population-based approaches to childhood obesity prevention [2012]
  • Population-based prevention strategies for childhood obesity : report of a WHO forum and technical meeting, Geneva, 15-17 December 2009 [2010]

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