Healthy weight, healthy lives: A toolkit for developing local strategies
This toolkit is intended as a resource
to help those working at local level to plan, coordinate and implement comprehensive strategies to
prevent and manage overweight and obesity.
October 2008
This toolkit has been designed to follow on from Healthy Weight, Healthy Lives: Guidance for local areas and to provide further support for developing a local strategy to tackle overweight and obesity. It is primarily aimed at commissioners of public health services in both primary care trusts and local authorities.
The document is not compulsory but is intended to help local multi-agency teams – including public health, health promotion and primary care professionals, and strategic planners in both the NHS and local government in England – to develop and implement strategies and action plans to tackle the year-on-year rise of overweight and obesity through prevention and management.
The toolkit provides a comprehensive collection of information and tools to assist with delivering current national and local policies. It purposefully does not provide detailed information about care and treatment of overweight and obesity, but rather offers signposts to well established and comprehensive material covered elsewhere.
Downloads
- Healthy weight, healthy lives: A toolkit for developing local strategies [FULL REPORT 5.2 MB pdf]
The toolkit has five sections:
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Section A: Overweight
and obesity: the public health problem [260KB pdf]
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Section B: Tackling
overweight and obesity [207KB pdf]
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Section C: Developing
a local overweight and obesity strategy [171KB pdf]
- Section D: Resources for commissioners [935KB pdf]
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Section E: Resources
for healthcare professionals [1.7MB pdf]
Tools from Section D can be downloaded individually:
- Tool 1: Commissioning for health and wellbeing: a checklist
- Tool 2: Obesity prevalence ready-reckoner
- Tool 3: Estimating the local cost of obesity
- Tool 4: Identifying priority groups
- Tool 5: Setting local goals
- Tool 6: Local leadership
- Tool 7: What success looks like – changing behaviour
- Tool 8: Choosing interventions
- Tool 9: Targeting behaviours
- Tool 10: Communicating with target groups – key messages
- Tool 11: Guide to the procurement process
- Tool 12: Commissioning weight management services for children, young people and families
- Tool 13: Commissioning social marketing
- Tool 14: Monitoring and evaluation:a framework
- Tool 15: Useful resources
Tools from Section E can be downloaded individually:
- Tool 1: Clinical care pathways
- Tool 2: Early identification of patients
- Tool 3: Measurement and assessment of overweight and obesity – ADULTS
- Tool 4: Measurement and assessment of overweight and obesity – CHILDREN
- Tool 5: Raising the issue of weight – Department of Health advice
- Tool 6: Raising the issue of weight – perceptions of overweight healthcare professionals and overweight people
- Tool 7: Leaflets and booklets for patients
