Interventions to Prevent Obesity
SBU does not issue recommendations or guidelines on how healthcare, dental care or social services should operate, or on which interventions and methods should be provided. SBU critically appraises and synthesises research on interventions and methods through systematic reviews.
An update of the chapter on preventing obesity in the SBU Report "Treating and Preventing Obesity – An Evidence Based Review".
(Originally published in Swedish, 2002. English edition published in 2004.)
Project Group: Mona Britton, Jan Östman, Ewalotte Ränzlöv.
Other contributors: Johan Bring (Statistical Analysis), Johan Skånberg (Chapter 4).
Manuscript reviewed by: Carl-Erik Flodmark, Claude Marcus, Jarl S:son Torgerson.
English translation by: Ron Gustafson.
Flodmark CE, Marcus C, Britton M. Interventions to prevent obesity in children and adolescents: a systematic literature review. Int J Obes 2006;30:579-89. Link to the article
How to cite this report: SBU. Interventions to prevent obesity. Stockholm: Swedish Council on Health Technology Assessment in Health Care (SBU); 2004. SBU report no 173E.