Lessons Learned for Obesity Prevention and Care from Five Integrated Programs

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 ◽  
Author(s):  
William H. Dietz ◽  
◽  
Jennifer E. Fassbender ◽  
Jeffrey Levi ◽  
Nicolaas P. Pronk ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Obesity Prevention ◽  
Lessons Learned ◽  
Integrated Programs

“Full of Ourselves PLUS”: Lessons Learned when Implementing an Eating Disorder and Obesity Prevention Program

2011 ◽  
Vol 1 (3) ◽  
pp. 109-117 ◽  
Author(s):  
Justine J. Reel ◽  
Carlie Ashcraft ◽  
Rachel Lacy ◽  
Robert A. Bucciere ◽  
Sonya Soohoo ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Eating Disorder ◽  
Obesity Prevention ◽  
Prevention Program ◽  
Lessons Learned ◽  
Obesity Prevention Program

scholarly journals Mitigating Impacts of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Gorilla Conservation: Lessons From Bwindi Impenetrable Forest, Uganda

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gladys Kalema-Zikusoka ◽  
Stephen Rubanga ◽  
Alex Ngabirano ◽  
Lawrence Zikusoka
Keyword(s):  
Animal Health ◽  
Lessons Learned ◽  
Viewing Distance ◽  
Great Ape ◽  
Community Members ◽  
Non Profit ◽  
Health Community ◽  
Coffee Farmers ◽  
Integrated Programs ◽  
Village Health

The COVID-19 pandemic, affecting all countries, with millions of cases and deaths, and economic disruptions due to lockdowns, also threatens the health and conservation of endangered mountain gorillas. For example, increased poaching due to absence of tourism income, led to the killing on 1st June 2020 of a gorillaby a hungry community member hunting duiker and bush pigs. Conservation Through Public Health (CTPH), a grassroots NGO and non-profit founded in 2003 promotes biodiversity conservation by enabling people to co-exist with wildlife through integrated programs that improve animal health, community health, and livelihoods in and around Africa's protected areas and wildlife rich habitats. Through these programs, we have helped to mitigate these impacts. CTPH worked with Uganda Wildlife Authority and other NGOs to improve great ape viewing guidelines and prevent transmission of COVID-19 between people and gorillas. Park staff, Gorilla Guardians herding gorillas from community land to the park and Village Health and Conservation Teams were trained to put on protective face masks, enforce hand hygiene and a 10-meter great ape viewing distance. To reduce the communities' need to poach, CTPH found a UK-based distributor, for its Gorilla Conservation Coffee social enterprise enabling coffee farmers to earn revenue in the absence of tourism and provided fast growing seedlings to reduce hunger in vulnerable community members. Lessons learned show the need to support non-tourism dependent community livelihoods, and more responsible tourism to the great apes, which CTPH is advocating to governments, donors and tour companies through an Africa CSO Biodiversity Alliance policy brief.

The critical role of communications in a multilevel obesity-prevention intervention: Lessons learned for alcohol educators

2017 ◽  
Vol 100 ◽  
pp. S3-S10 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniel P. Hatfield ◽  
Sarah A. Sliwa ◽  
Sara C. Folta ◽  
Christina D. Economos ◽  
Jeanne P. Goldberg
Keyword(s):  
Obesity Prevention ◽  
Critical Role ◽  
Lessons Learned ◽  
Prevention Intervention

scholarly journals School-Based Obesity Prevention Interventions for Chilean Children During the Past Decades: Lessons Learned

2012 ◽  
Vol 3 (4) ◽  
pp. 616S-621S ◽  
Author(s):  
Juliana Kain ◽  
Ricardo Uauy ◽  
Fernando Concha ◽  
Bárbara Leyton ◽  
Nelly Bustos ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Obesity Prevention ◽  
Lessons Learned ◽  
The Past ◽  
School Based ◽  
Prevention Interventions

scholarly journals Childhood obesity prevention studies: lessons learned and to be learned

2006 ◽  
Vol 9 (8A) ◽  
pp. 1121-1129 ◽  
Author(s):  
MBE Livingstone ◽  
TA McCaffrey ◽  
KL Rennie
Keyword(s):  
Childhood Obesity ◽  
Obesity Prevention ◽  
Population Based ◽  
Lessons Learned ◽  
Lifestyle Behaviour ◽  
Childhood Obesity Prevention ◽  
Attrition Rates ◽  
Subject Selection ◽  
Prevention Studies ◽  
Prevention Programmes

AbstractObjectiveTo provide an overview of methodological issues in the design, delivery and evaluation of childhood obesity prevention programmes.DesignReview of existing literature.SettingInternational.ResultsInterventions have varied considerably with regard to their design, subject selection criteria, sample size, attrition rates, intervention components and duration of both the intervention and the follow-up phases. However, overall, there is only a limited body of consistent, high-quality evidence on which valid and generalisable conclusions can be drawn about best practices for the prevention of childhood obesity.ConclusionsAlthough the rationale for targeting children and adolescents through primary prevention is now compelling, effective obesity prevention remains elusive. There is increasing consensus that prevention of childhood obesity necessitates multifaceted health promotion interventions based on population health principles. By definition, such interventions should have a range of outcome indicators of effectiveness, generalisability and sustainability, not just the traditional ones focused on individual lifestyle behaviour change. Given the complexity and intricacy of population-based intervention programmes, multiple methods of data collection which combine both qualitative and quantitative approaches will need to be fully exploited in order to move towards evidence-based practice in the future.

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