If you work on a public sector health campaign, the chances are that someone else somewhere is working on the same issue. One Stop Shop offers health professionals a chance to share unpublished research and information on consumer knowledge, attitudes, beliefs and behaviour across a range of public health priorities.

If you work on a public sector health campaign, the chances are that someone else somewhere is working on the same issue. One Stop Shop offers health professionals a chance to share unpublished research and information on consumer knowledge, attitudes, beliefs and behaviour across a range of public health priorities.

Childhood obesity: Desk research

To inform the selection of the most effective interventions to halt the growth in obesity in children, the DH commissioned this research looking into the evidence for the causes of obesity in this age group.

In particular, the DH wish to understand:

Child obesity: Segmentation research

The main purpose of the project is to quantify the segments of parents of children aged 2-10 in terms of their attitudes to healthy eating and physical activity, and the behaviours (positive or negative) they demonstrate within these areas, considering socio-economic, ethnic, and geographic differences.

Research with key BME communities around childhood obesity: Qualitative research

The purpose of this study was to provide practical guidelines on developing culturally appropriate interventions targeted at priority ethnic minority communities. It looked at understanding by the Black African, the Bangladeshi and the Pakistani communities in terms of:

  • The issues relevant to obesity, such as eating a healthy diet and taking physical exercise, risks of childhood obesity and sources of information on these
  • Current eating and physical activity behaviours
  • How it would be possible to change behaviour