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Adopt a whole systems approach to obesity

Tackling obesity effectively—accomplishing a population wide-shift—requires a comprehensive and integrated whole systems approach, involving a range of measures focusing on individuals, social and other systems, including at the local and community level, and on the interrelated physical, physiological, social and cognitive factors that determine health outcomes.

 

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Tackling obesity in the UK
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Tackling obesity
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Adopt a whole systems approach to obesity
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Deploy and integrate as many interventions as possible at scale
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Improve collaboration across organisational boundaries
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Involve all stakeholders in the process of change
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Target interventions across the whole course of life
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Set clear, long-term societal goals and deepen the sense of urgency
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Changes required across many different policy areas
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Causal factors in one domain thwart progress in other domains
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Who should adopt a whole systems approach to obesity?
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Need to appreciate and incorporate multiple perspectives
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Relational complexity of problems makes them hard to grasp as a whole
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Foresight – Obesity System Map
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Develop a coherent fiscal, regulatory and governance framework
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Improve obesity training for healthcare professionals
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Improve public education, literacy & actions on obesity and nutrition
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Reshape the food environment to encourage healthier eating patterns
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Shape the physical environment to encourage physical activity
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Develop a coherent fiscal, regulatory and governance framework
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Invest in employee health and wellbeing
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Improve the costs and outcomes of medical interventions
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Many obesity policy measures appear to be cost-effective for society
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Scarce health resources would be better spent elsewhere
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