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From ToyBox Study to eToyBox: Advancing Childhood Obesity Reduction in Malaysian Kindergartens (2023)
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Summerbell, C., Reeves, S., & Gibson, E. (2023). From ToyBox Study to eToyBox: Advancing Childhood Obesity Reduction in Malaysian Kindergartens. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 20(16), Article 6614. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph20166614

Prevention and treatment of childhood obesity is a global concern and in Malaysia it is considered a national public health priority. Determinants of childhood obesity are multifactorial and include factors that directly and indirectly influence ener... Read More about From ToyBox Study to eToyBox: Advancing Childhood Obesity Reduction in Malaysian Kindergartens.

Co-design and content validity of the movement measurement in the early years (MoveMEY) tool for assessing movement behaviour of pre-school aged children (2023)
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Phillips, S. M., Summerbell, C., Hesketh, K. R., Saxena, S., & Hillier-Brown, F. C. (2023). Co-design and content validity of the movement measurement in the early years (MoveMEY) tool for assessing movement behaviour of pre-school aged children. International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity, 20, Article 95. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12966-023-01486-2

Process evaluation of a kindergarten-based intervention for obesity prevention in early childhood: the Toybox study Malaysia (2023)
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Cheah, W. L., Poh, B. K., Ruzita, A. T., Lee, J. A. C., Koh, D., Reeves, S., …Gibson, E. L. (2023). Process evaluation of a kindergarten-based intervention for obesity prevention in early childhood: the Toybox study Malaysia. BMC Public Health, 23(1), Article 1082. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12889-023-16023-w

Background
Toybox is a kindergarten-based intervention program that targets sedentary behavior, snacking and drinking habits, as well as promoting physical activity in an effort to improve healthy energy balance-related behaviors among children atte... Read More about Process evaluation of a kindergarten-based intervention for obesity prevention in early childhood: the Toybox study Malaysia.

Measurement Instruments for Integration within Children and Young People Healthcare Systems and Networks: A Rapid Review of the International Literature (2023)
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Dedat, Z., Hope, S., Hargreaves, D., Lloyd-Houldey, O., Nicholls, D., Scott, S., …Hillier-Brown, F. (2023). Measurement Instruments for Integration within Children and Young People Healthcare Systems and Networks: A Rapid Review of the International Literature. International Journal of Integrated Care, 23(2), 1-10. https://doi.org/10.5334/ijic.7028

Introduction: Robust measures of integration are essential for assessment of the development, design and implementation of integration within healthcare systems. This review aimed to identify measurement instruments for integration within children an... Read More about Measurement Instruments for Integration within Children and Young People Healthcare Systems and Networks: A Rapid Review of the International Literature.

Child and adolescent obesity (2023)
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Lister, N. B., Baur, L. A., Felix, J. F., Hill, A. J., Marcus, C., Reinehr, T., …Wabitsch, M. (2023). Child and adolescent obesity. Nature Reviews Disease Primers, 9(1), Article 24. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41572-023-00435-4

The prevalence of child and adolescent obesity has plateaued at high levels in most high-income countries and is increasing in many low-income and middle-income countries. Obesity arises when a mix of genetic and epigenetic factors, behavioural risk... Read More about Child and adolescent obesity.

‘Bigotry is all around us, and we have to deal with that’: Exploring LGBTQ+ young people’s experiences and understandings of health inequalities in North East England (2023)
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Griffin, N., Crowder, M., Kyle, P., Holding, E., Woodrow, N., Fairbrother, H., Dodd-Reynolds, C., Summerbell, C., & Scott, S. (2023). ‘Bigotry is all around us, and we have to deal with that’: Exploring LGBTQ+ young people’s experiences and understandings of health inequalities in North East England. SSM - Qualitative Research in Health, 3, Article 100263. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ssmqr.2023.100263

Background: Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer/questioning, intersex, asexual/agender+ (LGBTQ+ hereafter) people report poorer health and worse experiences of healthcare than the general population, compounded by growing inequalities in healt... Read More about ‘Bigotry is all around us, and we have to deal with that’: Exploring LGBTQ+ young people’s experiences and understandings of health inequalities in North East England.

Typology of how ‘harmful commodity industries’ interact with local governments in England: a critical interpretive synthesis (2023)
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McKevitt, S., White, M., Petticrew, M., Summerbell, C., Vasiljevic, M., Boyland, E., Cummins, S., Laverty, A. A., Junghans, C., Millett, C., De Vocht, F., Hrobonova, E., & Vamos, E. P. (2023). Typology of how ‘harmful commodity industries’ interact with local governments in England: a critical interpretive synthesis. BMJ Global Health, 8(1), https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjgh-2022-010216

Introduction Industries that produce and market potentially harmful commodities or services (eg, tobacco, alcohol, gambling, less healthy foods and beverages) are a major influence on the drivers of behavioural risk factors for non-communicable disea... Read More about Typology of how ‘harmful commodity industries’ interact with local governments in England: a critical interpretive synthesis.

Interventions to prevent obesity in children under 2 years old (2022)
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Moore, T. H., Phillips, S., Heslehurst, N., Hodder, R. K., Dawson, S., Gao, Y., Hesketh, K., & Summerbell, C. D. (2022). Interventions to prevent obesity in children under 2 years old. Cochrane Library, 2022(11), Article CD015324. https://doi.org/10.1002/14651858.cd015324

This is a protocol for a Cochrane Review (intervention). The objectives are as follows: The overall aim of the review is to determine the effectiveness of interventions to prevent obesity in children under two years old. This includes to assess obesi... Read More about Interventions to prevent obesity in children under 2 years old.

Interventions to prevent obesity in school-aged children 6-18 years: An update of a Cochrane systematic review and meta-analysis including studies from 2015–2021 (2022)
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Hodder, R. K., O'Brien, K. M., Lorien, S., Wolfenden, L., Moore, T. H., Hall, A., Yoong, S. L., & Summerbell, C. (2022). Interventions to prevent obesity in school-aged children 6-18 years: An update of a Cochrane systematic review and meta-analysis including studies from 2015–2021. EClinicalMedicine, 54, Article 101635. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eclinm.2022.101635

Background Childhood obesity remains a global public health priority due to the enormous burden it generates. Recent surveillance data suggests there has been a sharp increase in the prevalence of childhood obesity during the COVID-19 pandemic. The C... Read More about Interventions to prevent obesity in school-aged children 6-18 years: An update of a Cochrane systematic review and meta-analysis including studies from 2015–2021.