Prevention of childhood overweight and obesity

Prevention of childhood overweight and obesity
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UNICEF
Overview

As part of UNICEF's Nutrition Strategy 2020-2030, this course focuses on the prevention of childhood overweight and obesity

The course includes 15 expert videos from global thought leaders working at the frontline

Who should do this course?

For UNICEF staff members at the global, regional, and country levels
For relevant partner organizations (including government partners, implementing partners, consultants and researchers)

What are the course deliverables?

Describe the drivers and effects of childhood overweight and obesity
Understand the need for comprehensive multi-sectoral national strategies to prevent childhood overweight and obesity
Consider ways to ensure adequate funding for childhood overweight and obesity prevention in the context of multiple forms of malnutrition
Understand the government's imperative to adopt a child rights-based approach to protect children
Describe how to define the scope of regulatory measures for childhood overweight and obesity prevention policies
Identify the evidence-based and cost-effective interventions to prevent childhood overweight and obesity
Provide tools to support and implement overweight and obesity prevention policies
Identify data to plan, monitor, and evaluate policies

More about this course

This course will provide UNICEF staff members and relevant partner organizations with the necessary technical foundation to begin gathering evidence for, programming around, and reporting on the prevention of childhood overweight and obesity within their context
It introduces the scope and scale of the problem, relevant existing global mandates and regulatory frameworks to address the problem, evidence-based interventions to implement, and the role of politics
Understand the role of politics and the food and beverage industry in childhood overweight and obesity prevention policies