Childhood Nutrition and Wellbeing

Health professionals are well placed to advocate and support changes which will help their patients and communities prevent childhood obesity.
 

Bay Navigator

• Raising Healthy Kids: Weight management in children pathway
• Resources to support children, families and whanau
• Referrals and intervention services

Medical Officer of Health reports

• Childhood obesity prevention: Creating change to ‘shift the curve’
• Leading the Charge on Preventing Childhood Obesity
• Childhood Obesity Prevention – What will it take to change our food environments and where do we start?
• Sugary Drinks, Health and Individual Responsibility

Technical reports

• B4 School Check data - body size
  
• Drinks in Schools Report

Healthy Weight BMI Calculator - Ministry of Health

• For children and adults over 2 years old 

NZ – WHO BMI Growth Charts

• Self-plotting growth charts for boys and girls 2-19 years (excel spreadsheet)
• Boys growth chart 2-19 years (printable PDF)
• Girls growth chart 2-19 years (printable PDF)
• BMI Centile Calculator

Briefing paper

• Toi Te Ora Public Health's Childhood Obesity Prevention Strategy

Submissions

• ASA Code for Advertising to Children & Code for Advertising Food

Ministry of Health childhood obesity plan and related information

• Childhood obesity plan
• Childhood obesity plan: Background information
• Eating and activity guidelines for New Zealand adults and a summary of the guidelines and related information

 
Other links and resources

• Toi Te Ora Public Health - Healthy Pregnancies Education Day
• World Health Organization - Report on the commission on ending childhood obesity
• World Health Organization - Commission on ending childhood obesity
• The Lancet - How can governments support healthy food preferences?
• The Lancet - Obesity 2015
• Agencies for Nutrition Action (ANA)
• Fight the Obesity Epidemic (FOE)
• Australia’s Obesity Policy Coalition
• Sugar By Half