Policy paper

Healthy Lives, Healthy People: A Call to Action on Obesity in England

How the new approach to public health will encourage a wide range of partners to take action on obesity.

• From: Department of Health and Social Care
• Published: 13 October 2011

This was published under the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

Applies to England

Documents

Healthy Lives, Healthy People: A Call to Action on Obesity in England

PDF, 575 KB, 54 pages

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A Call to action On Obesity in England: Equality Analysis

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Details

This document announces new national ambitions for combined efforts to combat obesity:

• a sustained downward trend in the level of excess weight in children by 2020
• a downward trend in the level of excess weight averaged across all adults by 2020

Published 13 October 2011