Healthy Eating and Active Lifestyles

Best Practices in Public Health

Overweight and obesity affects over half of all men and women in OECD countries. This has significant health and economic consequences. As part of OECD’s work on promoting best practices in public health, this report outlines policy recommendations on how to address two leading overweight risk factors: poor diet and lack of physical activity. Policy recommendations are drawn from a review of high-priority interventions implemented in OECD and EU27 countries.

Published on June 07, 2022

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Foreword	Read PDF
Acronyms and abbreviations	Read PDF
Executive summary	Read PDF
Key findings and recommendations	Read PDF
Overweight and its threat to public health	Read PDF
Nutri-Score	Read PDF
Physical Activity on Prescription	Read PDF
Combined Lifestyle Intervention	Read PDF
Multimodal Training Intervention	Read PDF
Young People at a Healthy Weight	Read PDF
ToyBox	Read PDF
The Danish Whole Grain Partnership	Read PDF
StopDia pilot	Read PDF
SI!	Read PDF
Diabetes in Europe: Prevention using lifestyle, physical activity and nutrition	Read PDF
Personalised Approach to Obesity Management in Children	Read PDF
Let Food Be Your Medicine	Read PDF
Methodology	Read PDF

Policy Highlights

Create comprehensive policy packages that include interventions covering a range of settings – such as schools, primary care and the community – as well as population groups
Target the needs of disadvantaged groups such as those with a lower socio-economic status, for example by adapting interventions to the needs of these groups
Boost participation in weight reduction programmes using several strategies such as providing social support and asking participants to set goals targeting behaviour change
Adequately resource transfer and scale-up efforts for example to develop implementation material outlining key steps and “lessons learnt” from previous implementation efforts
Provide incentives that strengthen evidence-based research such as setting minimum evidence-based standards when determining which interventions to transfer or scale-up

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Healthy Eating and Active Lifestyles

Best Practices in Public Health

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