My name is Claire Beynon and I am a Specialty Registrar in Public Health in Wales. I am passionate about reducing childhood obesity in the UK and wanted to explore how the wider determinants of health impact childhood obesity in children after accounting for deprivation.
One of my placements gave me the opportunity to work with the Nuffield Trust and University College London (UCL) as well as my home institution of Public Health Wales. I used the Childhood Measurement Programme data for Wales collected over the last five years and matched this to the wider determinants of health by local authority area.
Following a presentation of the results to the Welsh Government and Welsh Local Government Association I produced a simple one page summary of the research to share with local authority staff.
The idea of this simple summary was to turn research language into plan English and to communicate the findings of the research clearly. This work was also timed to influence the Wales Obesity Strategy (Healthy Weight: Healthy Wales). For more information on the study please contact Claire.beynon@wales.nhs.uk Work undertaken by Public Health Wales, University College London and the Nuffield Trust.
