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Preventing and Managing Childhood and Adolescent Obesity
Obesity in children has tripled in the last 30 years. Childhood Obesity (formerly Obesity and Weight Management) addresses today’s critical mandate to stem the obesity epidemic in children and adolescents. Childhood Obesity will provide the central forum to explore effective, actionable strategies for addressing weight management and obesity prevention.
Action-oriented coverage includes:
- The genetic, behavioral, and environmental factors causing obesity in children and adolescents
- “Real-world” prevention and management initiatives and interventions
- Plans and protocols to effect change at the family, school, and community level
- Strategies to promote education and policy changes
- The role of primary care healthcare providers
- Long-term health risks for overweight children
- Health disparities and lack of access to health care
- Lessons learned and best practices
- Economic impact of childhood obesity
- Research advances
In Every issue:
- Original peer-reviewed articles
- Perspectives and roundtable discussions
- Nonprofit and government initiatives and programs
- Global Childhood Obesity Update
- Clinical Roundup
- Profiles of successful school food programs
- Patient motivation tools and handouts
- Literature Watch
- Web Watch
The Journal is in collaboration with the American Association of Diabetes Educators, American Dietetic Association, the American College of Sports Medicine, and the American Academy of Family Physicians.
Indexed/Abstracted in:
EMBASE/Excerpta Medica; Scopus; CAB Abstracts