Preventive Intervention Programs in the Area of Healthy Nutrition for Children – the Projects of the World Health Organization to Fight Children Obesity

Czech version

Authors: J. Fialová
Authors‘ workplace: Ústav preventivního lékařství, Lékařská fakulta Masarykovy univerzity, Brno vedoucí prof. MUDr. Z. Derflerová Brázdová, DrSc.
Published in: Čes-slov Pediat 2009; 64 (12): 660-663.
Category: Review

Overview

One of the most important and most efficient strategies in the fighting of obesity and related diseases is a complex education for health and healthy lifestyle from the early childhood. This kind of prevention requires coordination of a series of participants. The foreign experience has shown that only their systematic and coordinated collaboration can bring about corresponding results. The creation of such environment is the goal of intervention preventive programs prepared by the World Health Organization.

The paper introduces the WHO programs directed to the fight against children obesity, their coordination, the applied principles and method and their implication in the Czech Republic. The participation of pediatricians in these program is quite desirable because their professional competence suitably supplement and correct the effort of other participants of preventive programs, such as family, school, public and private institutions.

Key words:
prevention of obesity, health promotion at school, preventive intervention programs, World Health Organization

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Czech-Slovak Pediatrics

2009 Issue 12