INFORMAS Europe

News from STOP

• STOP project funds an additional innovative industry-led pilot project to address childhood obesity across Europe October 27, 2020
  Based on the recent figures highlighted in the Global Atlas on Childhood Obesity, 158 million children between 5 and 19 years are living with obesity globally, a number that is predicted to increase to 254 […]
• STOP’s fourth newsletter released! October 27, 2020
  The fourth STOP newsletter has been released! In this issue, you can read about our project updates, as well as internal and external events and news. Find out about the impact COVID-19 is having on […]
• Social disparities in obesity treatment for children age 3-10 years: a systematic review October 20, 2020
  Overweight and obesity affect more than 25% of children in Europe. While childhood obesity has serious health implications, it also has social and economic consequences. While treatment interventions to address childhood obesity exist, few studies […]
• Creating Demand for Health: Effective Public Health Communications to induce behavioural change October 19, 2020
  On the 13-16 October, ICL coordinated a virtual training programme, funded by EIT Health, aimed at public health and policy professionals. The course welcomed 32 participants from Europe, the Americas, and Asia from a range […]
• Shift Design – Healthier and affordable fast food for families October 19, 2020
  The fourth and final STOP industry-led pilot project has now been funded. Shift Design was awarded €150,000 to develop innovations that have the potential to make critical improvements in the food environments faced by children […]
• Assessing the role of policies and actions to address childhood obesity (STOP workshop at the World Congress on Public Health 2020) October 19, 2020
  On October 13th, 2020, the STOP project organised a workshop at the World Congress on Public Health where we showcased the impact of different policy options evaluated through the project and attempted to increase participants’ […]
• Disrupting childhood obesity trends across Europe; a joint symposium of CO-CREATE, STOP and PEN October 19, 2020
  On September 2nd, 2020, EU-projects CO-CREATE, STOP and PEN met at ECO/ICO 2020 for a joint symposium where they discussed how the three projects are trying to address some unresolved challenges around childhood obesity and […]
• Blog: Tackling obesogenic environments would be effective and widely supported October 19, 2020
  With the global prevalence of obesity in the adult and children population increasing dramatically over the past decade, obesity prevention policies are a now priority for many governments and intergovernmental agencies. As part of the […]
• Childhood obesity during a global pandemic: exploring parents’ experiences of stress, change, and everyday disruption October 19, 2020
  The lives of families across Europe have been affected substantially by the COVID-19 pandemic. To understand how the pandemic and country-specific responses to it have influenced families of children with obesity, we interviewed parents from […]
• ‘Drink Up’ – A social media campaign to address childhood obesity in the US October 19, 2020
  The goal of the Drink Up campaign, a collaboration between the Partnership for a Healthier America (PHA) and First Lady Michelle Obama, was to deliver a clear, actionable, and positive message to shift the population […]