TY - JOUR
AU - Nijpels, Giel
AB - Background: The prevalence of overweight and obesity in Europe is high. It is a major cause of the overall rates of many of the main chronic (or non communicable) diseases in this region and is characterized by an unequal socio-economic distribution within the population. Obesity is largely determined by modifiable lifestyle behaviours such as low physical activity levels, sedentary behaviour and consumption of energy dense diets. It is increasingly being recognised that effective responses must go beyond interventions that only focus on a specific individual, social or environmental level and instead embrace system-based multi-level intervention approaches that address both the individual and environment. The EU-funded project “sustainable prevention of obesity through integrated strategies” (SPOTLIGHT) aims to increase and combine knowledge on the wide range of determinants of obesity in a systematic way, and to identify multi-level intervention approaches that are strong in terms of Reach, Efficacy, Adoption, Implementation and Maintenance (RE-AIM). Methods/Design: SPOTLIGHT comprises a series of systematic reviews on: individual-level predictors of success in behaviour change obesity interventions; social and physical environmental determinants of obesity; and on the RE-AIM of multi-level interventions. An interactive web-atlas of currently running multi-level interventions will be developed, and enhancing and impeding factors 
TI - Sustainable prevention of obesity through integrated strategies: The SPOTLIGHT project’s conceptual framework and design
JF - BMC Public Health
DO - 10.1186/1471-2458-12-793
DA - 2012-09-17
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/springer-journals/sustainable-prevention-of-obesity-through-integrated-strategies-the-O79pLxEMk1
SP - 1
EP - 7
VL - 12
IS - 1
DP - DeepDyve
ER -