News and Opinion
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Preventing childhood obesity during infancy in UK primary care
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- Published on Thursday, 23 June 2011
Researched in Nottingham, the paper presents the outcome of a
mixed-methods study of health care professions’ knowledge, beliefs and practice. It concludes that interventions are still needed to improve health visitors’ and nursery nurses’ knowledge
How apposite that from both sides of the Atlantic documents are focussing on preventing childhood obesity measures when, up to now, the Department of Health has been “ content “ only to look at issues from the school years onwards