Asia - Australia - Canada - Chile - China - Europe - France - India - International - Ireland, United Kingdom - Italy - Kazakhstan - Latin America - Mexico - Middle East, North Africa - Netherlands - New Zealand - Poland - Qatar - Republic of Korea - United Kingdom - United States - WHO - WHO South-East Asia Region - {Related topics}

Asia

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

Australia

• Australian Journal of Rural Health
  • Childhood obesity in the first 2000 days: A focus on primary health care in regional and rural Australia [2025]

• Journal of Paediatrics and Child Health
  • Australian General Practitioners' Perspectives on Childhood Obesity Management [2026]

• 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

• Obesity Canada
  • Managing obesity in children: a clinical practice guideline [2025]
  • Canadian Pediatric Obesity Clinical Practice Guideline

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

Chile

• Journal of Global Health
  • Healthcare costs of childhood overweight and obesity in Chile: evidence from an analysis of linked administrative records [2026]

China

• Lancet Public Health
  • Control of childhood obesity and implications for policy in China [2024]

• 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 E-Book on Child and Adolescent Obesity

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

France

• Haute Autorité de Santé
  • Care pathway guide: overweight and obesity in children and adolescents [2023]

India

• Indian Academy of Pediatrics
  • Indian Academy of Pediatrics Revised Guidelines on Evaluation, Prevention and Management of Childhood Obesity [2023]
  • Childhood Obesity [2022]
  • Revised IAP growth charts for height, weight and body mass index for 5- to 18-year-old Indian children [2015]

International

• Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences
  • Obesity in children and adolescents: Scoping exercise and prioritization for World Health Organization clinical guidelines [2025]

• Journal of Clinical Research in Pediatric Endocrinology
  • Childhood Obesity as a Global Problem: a Cross-sectional Survey on Global Awareness and National Program Implementation [2024]

• Lancet Diabetes & Endocrinology
  • Obesity in children and adolescents: epidemiology, causes, assessment, and management [2022]

• Pediatric Obesity
  • Championing the use of people-first language in childhood overweight and obesity to address weight bias and stigma: A joint statement from the European-Childhood-Obesity-Group (ECOG), the European-Coalition-for-People-Living-with-Obesity (ECPO), the International-Paediatric-Association (IPA), Obesity-Canada, the European-Association-for-the-Study-of-Obesity Childhood-Obesity-Task-Force (EASO-COTF), Obesity Action Coalition (OAC), The Obesity Society (TOS) and the World-Obesity-Federation (WOF) [2023]

• World Obesity Federation
  • Obesity & Childhood

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
  • Cardiometabolic risk in children and adolescents with obesity: a position paper of the Italian Society for Pediatric Endocrinology and Diabetology [2024]
  • 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]

Kazakhstan

• Frontiers in Public Health
  • Two horizons, one burden: estimating lifetime and decade-long medical costs of childhood obesity in Kazakhstan [2026]

Latin America

• Revista de Gastroenterología de México (English Edition)
  • Consensus on the diagnosis, treatment, and follow-up in children and adolescents with overweight and obesity of the Latin American Society for Pediatric Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition (LASPGHAN) [2025]

Mexico

• Boletín Médico del Hospital Infantil de México
  • Ecological determinants of obesity risk in Mexican infants: a scoping review [2023]

• Obesity Reviews
  • Cultural factors related to childhood and adolescent obesity in Mexico: A systematic review of qualitative studies [2022]

Middle East, North Africa

• 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
  • Weight Management in 2–5 Year Olds [2016]
  • 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]

Qatar

• BMC Public Health
  • Childhood obesity governance in Qatar: a policy and legal benchmarking analysis against international child rights and WHO frameworks [2026]

Republic of Korea

• Journal of Obesity & Metabolic Syndrome
  • Obesity in Children and Adolescents: 2022 Update of Clinical Practice Guidelines for Obesity by the Korean Society for the Study of Obesity [2024]

• 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]

United Kingdom

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

• BMJ Open
  • Cross-sectional survey of child weight management service provision by acute NHS trusts across England in 2020/2021 [2022]

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

• Office for Health Improvement and Disparities
  • National child measurement programme

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

• American Journal of Preventive Medicine
  • National Collaborative on Childhood Obesity Research Efforts to Advance Childhood Obesity Research: Progress and Next Steps [2023]

• Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
  • Evidence-Based Guidelines for Child Obesity
  • Evaluation and Treatment for Child Obesity

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

• Cureus
  • Childhood Obesity Prevalence and Prevention Strategies in Primary Care: A Comprehensive Review [2025]

• Current Obesity Reports
  • Prevalence and Predictors of Guideline Concordant Pediatric Obesity Care: A Narrative Review [2026]

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

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

• Journal of Pediatrics: Clinical Practice
  • Aligning with Obesity Guidelines: A Quality Improvement Initiative in Pediatric Primary Care [2024]

• National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine
  • Obesity in the Early Childhood Years: State of the Science and Implementation of Promising Solutions [2016]

• Obesity Medicine Association
  • Special considerations for the child with obesity: An Obesity Medicine Association (OMA) clinical practice statement (CPS) 2024 [2024]
  • Assessment, differential diagnosis, and initial clinical evaluation of the pediatric patient with obesity: An Obesity Medical Association (OMA) Clinical Practice Statement 2022 [2022]

• Obesity Pillars
  • Clinical considerations in the management of obesity in children and adolescents [2025]

WHO

• World Health Organization
  • Global nutrition targets 2030: childhood overweight brief [2025]
  • 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]

WHO South-East Asia Region

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

{Related topics}

• Topic
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  • Obesity in children and adolescents: epidemiology
  • Obesity in children and adolescents: diet, nutrition, physical activity
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