Kontakt 2010, 12(2):151-158 | DOI: 10.32725/kont.2010.020

A comparison of British and Czech models of the solution to children obesityHealth and Social Sciences

Helena Šašková*, Heather Norris1
1 Crompton Health Centre, Bolton, Velká Británie, dětský dietolog

The purpose of the work presented here is a comparison of two programmes of the solution to children obesity respecting this problem as whole. The authors of materials analyzed are the societies STOB in the Czech Republic and MEND in Great Britain. These are particularly PPS presentations, web sites, promoting materials and also direct communication with representatives of these societies and rich expert experience of one of the present authors. The attention was paid to similar features of and differences in the programmes considered.
The first part of the article is aimed at risks of obesity and alarming statistics exerting the extent of the obesity and overweight in childhood. In this comparison, the Czech Republic has a relatively good position, but this should not lead to underestimating the problem. In the main part of our work, we describe successful methods of the solution to children obesity and present data on the programmes compared. Their methodology is very similar and both programmes achieve good results. The most essential difference can be found in the attitude to the evaluation, which is enviable in the case of the programme MEND - it is long-term and based on evidence. There are also different attitudes of governments and expert public to children obesity problems. The reduction in excess kilograms in Britain is not only matter of individuals, but the healthy life style is supported at the level of the whole society.
It is necessary to start taking our advantages (we are able to take meals within the family at one table to a more considerable extent compared to west culture, we grow vegetable foodstuffs and are used to spend free time in active manner, etc.), which should not be depreciated due to the consumption-oriented style of life.

Keywords: MEND programme; STOB programme; multi-component interventions; strategy of behaviour changes; helping relationship based on cooperation

Received: December 16, 2009; Accepted: March 24, 2010; Prepublished online: June 14, 2010; Published: June 14, 2012  Show citation

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Šašková H, Norris H. A comparison of British and Czech models of the solution to children obesity. Kontakt. 2010;12(2):151-158. doi: 10.32725/kont.2010.020.
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