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Healthy Weight, Healthy Lives:
A toolkit for developing local strategies

  • Document type:
    Report
  • Author:
    Department of Health
  • Published date:
    6 October 2008
  • Product number:
    283780
  • Gateway reference:
    10224
  • Pages:
    249
  • Copyright holder:
    Crown

This toolkit is to help PCTs and Local Authorities plan, coordinate and implement comprehensive strategies to prevent and manage overweight and obesity.  It provides information and tools including useful statistics, practical initiatives, evidence of effectiveness, checklists, frameworks and examples of good practice.

It is an update on the previous toolkit Lightening the Load: Tackling Overweight and Obesity: A toolkit for developing local strategies.  There are new tools that provide a breakdown of the cost of obesity to every PCT.  Other new tools include research from the upcoming Change4Life campaign that provides insight into families views on diet and activity.

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