Obesity prevention - the basic strategy of actual Community Public Health programes fighting obesity

Abstract

There are summarised key strategies of community public health programmes fighting obesity, including the description of total methodology of planning these programmes with the stressing the importance of social marketing and inevitable on-going and final evaluation of the effects of such programmes. There are as well listed the main political documents, which create the base for on-going international, European and local Czech programmes fighting obesity.

Keywords

• obesity
• prevention
• Public Health programmes
• social marketing
• European platform for physical activity
• nutrition and health