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  Effects of overweight, obesity and/or inadequate physical activity on school and work performance
  Review of scientific evidence and policies on nutrition and physical activity - Objective area C: a comprehensive review of the scientific evidence on the effect of overweight/obesity and/or inadequate physical activity on school or work performance, summary report

  Overweight, obesity and their related diseases represent a leading cause of morbidity and mortality, and pose a major challenge for the sustainability of healthcare systems of EU Member States. The growing prevalence of overweight and obesity among all age groups across Europe constitutes a seri...

  Overweight, obesity and their related diseases represent a leading cause of morbidity and mortality, and pose a major challenge for the sustainability of healthcare systems of EU Member States. The growing prevalence of overweight and obesity among all age groups across Europe constitutes a serious concern for policy makers. Tackling this issue requires a comprehensive response that reflects the multifactorial and complex nature of obesity and overweight. One particularly important area of focus has been on the development of preventative strategies which include nutritional and physical activity interventions. The European Commission Directorate General for Health and Food Safety (DG SANTE) recognises the significant challenges policy makers face in developing effective and efficient policy interventions relating to diet and physical activity. One such challenge includes the complexity and breadth of the evidence base. By providing independent, accurate summaries of recent and relevant information and statistics on determinants of diet and physical activity and their impact on health, this project aims to support policy makers to continue to develop policy instruments which enable people to make healthier lifestyle choices. In particular, this project aims to support the development of healthier behaviours in vulnerable and/or at-risk subpopulations (including children, pregnant and lactating women, and older adults) and low socio-economic status groups (including low income and education).

  • Published: 2018-12-10
  • Corporate Author(s): Directorate-General for Health and Food Safety (European Commission)
  • Subject: child, eating habits, educational institution, health policy, human nutrition, nutritional disease, physical education, protection of animal life, public health, work
• Case C-759/18: Request for a preliminary ruling from the Judecătoria Rădăuţi (Romania) lodged on 3 December 2018 — OF v PG

  • Published: 2018-12-03
  • Corporate Author(s): Court of Justice (Court of Justice of the European Union)
  • Subject: child, divorce, forced marriage, judicial cooperation in civil matters in the EU, jurisdiction, parental authority, parental responsibility, residence
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  How to promote water intake in schools
  A toolkit

  Schools are a key environment to teach children healthy hydration and form long-term positive beverage consumption behaviours. School-based interventions can reach large groups of children of all social classes, and messages learned may be taken home to impact behaviours in the family and elsewh...

  Schools are a key environment to teach children healthy hydration and form long-term positive beverage consumption behaviours. School-based interventions can reach large groups of children of all social classes, and messages learned may be taken home to impact behaviours in the family and elsewhere. As children often consume at least one meal or snack during a school day, promoting healthy beverage choices in these meals may reinforce their healthy nutrition knowledge and behaviour. Along these lines, having a policy on healthy school nutrition appears to help reduce SSB intake. This policy toolkit aims to support the EU Action Plan on Childhood Obesity 2014-2020, particularly the area for action ‘Promote healthier environments, especially in schools and pre-schools’. This area aims to establish children’s health as a priority at schools and has as one of its objectives to ‘increase […] water intake in schools’.

  • Published: 2018-10-18
  • Corporate Author(s): Joint Research Centre (European Commission)
  • Subject: beverage, child, consumer behaviour, drinking water, eating habits, educational institution, human nutrition, public health, research report, school canteen, school environment
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  Mapping and zooming in on childhood obesity
  

  Overweight and obesity are a challenge for children and adolescents worldwide and in the EU. This report shows the dimension of the challenge at the EU level and tells a series of stories, illustrated through maps, that highlight and make the case for the importance of showing data disaggregated...

  Overweight and obesity are a challenge for children and adolescents worldwide and in the EU. This report shows the dimension of the challenge at the EU level and tells a series of stories, illustrated through maps, that highlight and make the case for the importance of showing data disaggregated at various levels (by socio-economic status or by region – NUTS2, and even NUTS3). The data and maps presented show that education level for example, is an important determinant of obesity. Data collected at local level are a powerful source of knowledge that can and should be used for evidence-informed and truly tailor-made targeted actions and policies. This is illustrated by the comprehensive yearly evaluation of children’s health that the Portuguese city of Gaia organises and the actions that stem from it. Interventions at local level based on local data have immediacy and deliver a sense of action and empowerment that is hardly achievable at national level. The stories selected here are mere examples; other stories, using other disaggregated data sets, could have been told. There is room and need for deepening data collection relevant to children’s health and childhood obesity and to make it more accessible and comparable. This will benefit decision-makers at every level, public health practitioners and researchers. And most importantly, it will benefit the health of children and adolescents in our continent.

  • Published: 2019-01-30
  • Corporate Author(s): Joint Research Centre (European Commission)
  • Subject: child, data collection, nutritional disease, public health, social indicator, socioeconomic conditions, weight and size, young person
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  Fighting child sexual abuse
  Prevention policies for offenders : inception report

  Sexual abuse and sexual exploitation of children constitute major violation of fundamental rights and in particular of children rights to protection and care necessary for their well-being, as it is stated in the UNHCR Convention on the Rights of the Child. A series of Union initiatives and in p...

  Sexual abuse and sexual exploitation of children constitute major violation of fundamental rights and in particular of children rights to protection and care necessary for their well-being, as it is stated in the UNHCR Convention on the Rights of the Child. A series of Union initiatives and in particular Directive 2011/93/EU on combating the sexual abuse and sexual exploitation of children and child pornography aim at supporting actively and in a coordinated way the implementation of prevention and repression policies. The aim of this research is to first map existing prevention programmes in the European Union and at International level, focusing on interventions and treatments for (potential) offenders before any abuse occurs, for convicted offenders in prisons, and for convicted offenders after they leave the prison to fight against recidivism. Prevention campaigns and programmes, helplines, and circles of aids in the International and European landscape are listed and referenced. The effectiveness of the approaches has not yet been fully demonstrated and presented. Nevertheless, the report also offers preliminary evaluations of the reported initiatives and highlights on the possible best practices. In addition, criteria for more thorough assessment are suggested. The prevention programmes are considered as an important contribution for a resilient and effective approach to fight against child sexual exploitation both in the cyberspace and offline, and to raise main stakeholders’ awareness to the issue.

  • Published: 2018-10-03
  • Corporate Author(s): Joint Research Centre (European Commission)
  • Subject: child, child pornography, child protection, children's rights, fight against crime, paedophilia, prevention of delinquency, public health, research report, sexual offence, sexual violence, young person
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  Reviews of scientific evidence and policies on nutrition and physical activity
  Objective area C : a comprehensive review of the scientific evidence on the effect of overweight/obesity and/or inadequate physical activity on school or work performance

  Overweight, obesity and their related diseases represent a leading cause of morbidity and mortality, and pose a major challenge for the sustainability of healthcare systems of EU Member States. The growing prevalence of overweight and obesity among all age groups across Europe constitutes a seri...

  Overweight, obesity and their related diseases represent a leading cause of morbidity and mortality, and pose a major challenge for the sustainability of healthcare systems of EU Member States. The growing prevalence of overweight and obesity among all age groups across Europe constitutes a serious concern for policy makers. Tackling this issue requires a comprehensive response that reflects the multifactorial and complex nature of obesity and overweight. One particularly important area of focus has been on the development of preventative strategies which include nutritional and physical activity interventions. The European Commission Directorate General for Health and Food Safety (DG SANTE) recognises the significant challenges policy makers face in developing effective and efficient policy interventions relating to diet and physical activity. One such challenge includes the complexity and breadth of the evidence base. By providing independent, accurate summaries of recent and relevant information and statistics on determinants of diet and physical activity and their impact on health, this project aims to support policy makers to continue to develop policy instruments which enable people to make healthier lifestyle choices. In particular, this project aims to support the development of healthier behaviours in vulnerable and/or at-risk subpopulations (including children, pregnant and lactating women, and older adults) and low socio-economic status groups (including low income and education).

  • Published: 2018-12-10
  • Corporate Author(s): Directorate-General for Health and Food Safety (European Commission) ; ICF Consulting Services Ltd
  • Subject: child, eating habits, educational institution, health policy, human nutrition, nutritional disease, physical education, public health, sport, work
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  Using food reserves to improve food and nutrition security
  Information note

  The purpose of this note is to guide staff in the European Commission and in European Union delegations on the potential use of food reserves to improve food and nutrition security. The fight against hunger requires a combination of many instruments. This note discusses the circumstances in whic...

  The purpose of this note is to guide staff in the European Commission and in European Union delegations on the potential use of food reserves to improve food and nutrition security. The fight against hunger requires a combination of many instruments. This note discusses the circumstances in which food reserves may, or may not, be a useful component of such a multifaceted strategy, and provides guidelines to support decision-making.

  • Published: 2018-11-20
  • Corporate Author(s): Directorate-General for International Cooperation and Development (European Commission)
  • Subject: action programme, child, development policy, financial aid, food shortage, humanitarian aid, malnutrition, nutrition, nutritional needs
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  International family separation
  Cross-border parental child abduction

  • Published: 2019-01-16
  • Corporate Author(s): Directorate-General for Justice (European Commission) - Now known as... Directorate-General for Justice and Consumers (European Commission)
  • Subject: child, child protection, family, family law, illegal restraint, private international law
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  Implementing EU food and nutrition security policy commitments
  Third biennial report

  Latest edition.

  This is the third report highlighting the progress the EU and its Member States have achieved towards implementing their common policy on food security. This report is accompanied by Annexes that provide further information on analyses and case studies. Throughout the report, various examples re...

  This is the third report highlighting the progress the EU and its Member States have achieved towards implementing their common policy on food security. This report is accompanied by Annexes that provide further information on analyses and case studies. Throughout the report, various examples reflect how the EU and its Member States have further stepped up support and responded to the recommendations and Council conclusions made in 2016.

  • Published: 2018-11-08
  • Corporate Author(s): Directorate-General for International Cooperation and Development (European Commission)
  • Subject: action programme, child, development policy, financial aid, food shortage, humanitarian aid, malnutrition, nutrition, nutritional needs, report
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  Supporting the mid-term evaluation of the EU action plan on childhood obesity
  The childhood obesity study

  To support the European Commission with the mid-term (2014-2017) evaluation of the Action Plan, the Childhood Obesity Study was carried out. This study aimed to provide the European Commission and the EU Member States with an overview of the efforts during the first-half period of the Action Pla...

  To support the European Commission with the mid-term (2014-2017) evaluation of the Action Plan, the Childhood Obesity Study was carried out. This study aimed to provide the European Commission and the EU Member States with an overview of the efforts during the first-half period of the Action Plan as well as the prevalence of childhood obesity in 33 countries, being the 28 EU Member State as well as Iceland, Norway, Switzerland, Serbia, and Montenegro. Four tasks were included in this study. The first provides an overview on the prevalence of childhood overweight and obesity in the participating countries as well as an overall assessment of the main activities. The second provides a mapping of the activities carried out, on-going and/or planned in each of the Member States. Task 3 provides an overview of the engagement of EU Member States, the European Commission and international organisations in EU wide initiatives, projects, and Joint Actions in the field of nutrition and physical activity. The last task tries to give some insight into strengths and weaknesses for the implementation of the Action Plan.

  • Published: 2018-11-21
  • Corporate Author(s): Directorate-General for Health and Food Safety (European Commission) ; European Public Health Alliance (EPHA) ; National Institute for Public Health and the Environment (RIVM) ; Netherlands Institute for Health Services Research (NIVEL)
  • Subject: action programme, advertising, child, disease prevention, eating habits, medical research, nutritional disease, physical education, public health, school canteen