Reducing obesity is a priority for health policy (DH, 2016). It is one of the six high impact areas for health visitors to demonstrate health improvement (DH, 2016).Obesity is a key area for government action – recognised as a public health priority with “Excess Weight in 4-5 year olds and 10-11 year olds” forming indicators within the Public Health Outcomes Framework 2013-2016. Childhood obesity represents a significant health inequality with greater rates witnessed amongst children in disadvantaged areas and some ethnic groups. A wide portfolio of research now also recognises a strong link between overweight children and obesity into adulthood and, apart from the personal and psychological costs to the individual, there are increasing costs to the NHS and wider society, with projected costs of billions of pounds to both.
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Health Visitors & their multi- agency team members
