http://www.oxha.org The documents below relate to key issues, progress and events of relevance to OxHA. daily 1 2005-09-09T10:52:10Z http://www.oxha.org/knowledge/publications/promoting-pa-among-children This guidance from the UK's NICE, ‘Promoting physical activity, active play and sport for pre-school and school-age children and young people in family, pre-school, school and community settings’, is aimed at everyone who has a direct or indirect responsibility for promoting physical activity for children and young people. The recommendations relate to all children and young people up to the age of 18, including those with a medical condition or disability. There is a specific focus on children aged 11 and under and girls aged 11 to 18. No publisher katycooper Europe Physical activity/inactivity Government action Youth and children 2009-02-09T13:24:17Z Link http://www.oxha.org/knowledge/publications/nice-physical-activity-for-children This guidance, 'Promoting physical activity for children and young people', is for all those who have a direct or indirect role in - and responsibility for - promoting physical activity for children and young people. This includes those working in the NHS, education, local authorities and the wider public, private, voluntary and community sectors. It will also be of interest to parents, grandparents and other carers (including professional carers), children and young people and other members of the public. It includes recommendations for schools, but does not make recommendations for the national curriculum. No publisher katycooper Europe Schools Physical activity/inactivity Government action Youth and children 2009-03-02T18:02:45Z Link http://www.oxha.org/knowledge/publications/ASH_BeyondSmokingKills.pdf This report, subtitled 'Protecting children, reducing inequalities', is published by Action on Smoking and Health (ASH), in collaboration with the British Heart Foundation, Cancer Research UK and endorsed by over 100 health and welfare organisations. It calls on the UK government to introduce a comprehensive tobacco control strategy which could help a further 4.5 million smokers to quit by 2015 by: a) requiring plain packaging for all tobacco products (research in the report shows that young people are between 3 and 4 times less likely to pick a plain pack as a branded one if they were trying smoking for the first time); b) prohibiting the display of tobacco products in shops; c) clamping down on smuggling; and d) giving smokers access to safer non-tobacco alternatives to smoking No publisher katycooper Europe NGO action Government action Youth and children Smoking 2008-11-12T13:13:52Z File http://www.oxha.org/knowledge/publications/Fit%20City%20in%20Smart%20Moves%20Oct%2008.pdf This short article (at the bottom of the pages) about OxHA's Fit City competition appears in the UK Department of Transport's Smartmoves magazine, issue 5 (October 2008). The full magazine can be found at http://www.dft.gov.uk/pgr/sustainable/smarterchoices/smartmoves/issue5smartmove.pdf No publisher katycooper OxHA Physical environment Physical activity/inactivity Design Youth and children 2008-10-14T14:29:31Z File http://www.oxha.org/knowledge/publications/design-for-play This UK document, 'Design for play: a guide for creating successful play spaces', is intended primarily for commissioners and designers of children’s play areas, to support good practice in the development and improvement of public play space. It presents guiding principles, suggested approaches and aims to inspire innovative and creative ideas. No publisher katycooper Government action Physical activity/inactivity Design Youth and children 2008-11-12T14:47:07Z Link http://www.oxha.org/knowledge/publications/change4life The Change4Life initiative is a government scheme to bring together multiple stakeholders to help to 'change the lives of families in England by improving their diet, exercise and attitude to good health'. It is a national movement, launched in autumn 2008 before a major publicity campaign starts in January 2009. No publisher katycooper Europe Diet / nutrition Personal behaviour Physical activity/inactivity Government action Youth and children 2008-11-12T13:35:37Z Link http://www.oxha.org/knowledge/publications/FTCmktingtochildrenreport2008.pdf This major report, 'Marketing food to children and adolescents: a review of industry expenditures, activities, and self-regulation', by the Federal Trade Commission is the first accurately to assess the spending by 44 major US food and beverage companies on their marketing to children. In 2006, $1.6 billion was spent on advertising aimed at 2- to 17-year-olds. The report aims to be a benchmark for future years. No publisher katycooper North America Business / industry Product marketing Diet / nutrition Youth and children 2008-07-30T15:32:01Z File http://www.oxha.org/knowledge/publications/community-perspectives-on-obesity-prevention This report, available to read and download free, is a summary of a June 2008 Institute of Medicine (US) workshop on 'Community perspectives on obesity prevention in children'. It describes various locally-based childhood obesity prevention programs, their challenges and promises. No publisher katycooper North America Obesity Youth and children Community action 2008-11-12T12:45:19Z Link http://www.oxha.org/knowledge/publications/Young%20peoples%20health%20and%20rights.pdf This document, by Family Care International, is entitled 'Mobilising communities on young people's health and rights: An advocacy training guide '. It is a guide to strengthen community-level advocacy initiatives focusing on young people's health and rights. It identifies steps in defining goals and objectives, developing effective messages and activities, and monitoring and evaluating an advocacy campaign, and includes an advocacy toolkit for program managers and training guide. No publisher katycooper Access to health Global Human rights and health Youth and children 2008-11-12T12:52:10Z File http://www.oxha.org/knowledge/publications/inequalities-in-young-people-s-health This report, subtitled, 'Health behaviour in school-aged children: International report from the 2005/2006 survey', was produced for the WHO by the Child and Adolescent Health Research Unit at the University of Edinburgh. It provides 'data on young people across a wide range of health, education, social and family measures', and 'adopts a systematic approach to quantifying inequalities'. It 'sets out the associations between family affluence and the diverse health variables the study focuses on, presenting them by geographic region.' Warning: Large file (30 MB). No publisher katycooper Europe Access to health Personal behaviour Youth and children 2008-07-24T15:31:41Z Link http://www.oxha.org/knowledge/publications/sydney-principles-article This article by Swinburn et al. was published in Public Health Nutrition in May 2008. It concludes that ‘the Sydney Principles, which took a children’s rights-based approach, should be used to benchmark action to reduce marketing to children. The age definition for a child and the types of products which should have marketing restrictions may better suit a risk-based approach at this stage. The Sydney Principles should guide the formation of an International Code on Food and Beverage Marketing to Children.’ No publisher katycooper Human rights and health Government action Youth and children Product marketing 2008-06-27T13:20:53Z Link http://www.oxha.org/knowledge/publications/big-tobacco-s-guinea-pigs 'Big tobacco's guinea pigs: How an unregulated industry experiments on America's kids and consumers' is a Campaign for Tobacco-free Kids report on tobacco marketing practices that are unregulated by the government that recruit new youth users, create and sustain addiction to nicotine, and discourage users from quitting. It also demonstrates the effectiveness of tobacco products regulation. No publisher katycooper Product marketing Government action Youth and children Smoking 2009-03-02T17:58:47Z Link http://www.oxha.org/knowledge/publications/mend-in-denmark This link is to documents from an information meeting of the MEND programme, which is being developed for a Danish audience, in partnership with OxHA. No publisher katycooper OxHA Obesity Physical activity/inactivity Diet / nutrition Youth and children 2007-11-09T14:05:13Z Link http://www.oxha.org/knowledge/publications/child-friendly-cities In this talk, recorded at the National Museum of Australia, Dr Paul Tranter critiques the Disney movie Monsters Inc. in an entertaining examination of the serious issue of making our cities safe, fun and connective for our kids. He suggests three main ways of making cities child friendly: changes to urban form and transport; improving neighbourhood design; changes in social values. No publisher katycooper Government action Physical environment Physical activity/inactivity Design Youth and children 2008-04-11T14:38:46Z Link http://www.oxha.org/knowledge/publications/every-child-s-future-matters This report, by the UK's Sustainable Development Commission, developed out of the Every Child Matters (ECM) project, which aims to 'improve the daily experiences of all young people in England - from birth to nineteen - focusing on their wellbeing, personal development and future prosperity. This paper explores the influence of the environment on children's wellbeing and is written for everyone designing and delivering services that impact on children's lives.' No publisher katycooper Europe Access to health Physical environment Design Youth and children 2007-08-17T13:37:20Z Link