General Article Is the UK Government’s childhood obesity programme working?

Topic Selected: Obesity Book Volume: 436

How has the UK Government’s National Child Measurement Programme (NCMP), designed to tackle childhood obesity, impacted child and parent mental health?

The Queen Mary University of London has researched England’s National Measurement Programme (NCMP), an intervention designed to tackle childhood obesity, to better understand the experiences of parents and their children categorised as ‘overweight’ and ‘very overweight’.

The results conclude that the current programme may actually harm the chi...

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