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
Healthy Weight BMI Calculator - Ministry of Health
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
Submissions
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
Updated 28 Nov, 2023