Interventions for Preventing Obesity in Children and Adolescents
A special issue of Healthcare (ISSN 2227-9032). This special issue belongs to the section "School Health".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 15 June 2025 | Viewed by 2582
Special Issue Editor
Interests: prevention and treatment of obesity and metabolic disorders in youth; type 2 diabetes prevention in Latino and African American youth; reduction in anxiety and depression in at-risk youth; tracking of physical activity and sedentary behavior; reduction in health disparities; physical activity and sedentary behavior interventions
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The Healthcare welcomes submissions for a Special Issue entitled “Interventions for Preventing Obesity in Children and Adolescents”. Healthcare is an international, scientific, peer-reviewed, open access journal on health care systems, industry, technology, policy, and regulation. Healthcare’s current impact factor is 2.8. More details can be found at https://www.mdpi.com/journal/healthcare.
The global childhood obesity epidemic has led to an increased awareness of low physical activity as a major public health concern. Behaviors that contribute to obesity, including the consumption of highly energy dense foods, low physical activity and high levels of sedentary behaviors, appear to be characteristic of today’s youth. There is a plethora of evidence to suggest that physical activity contributes significantly to reducing obesity along with associated health. Furthermore, health behaviors and physical activity can be tracked; therefore, it is prudent to invest our resources in preventing adverse health from occurring in our young population. This has led to the suggestion that interventions to promote physical activity in children might be an appropriate, population-based approach to prevent obesity and related chronic diseases. This Special Issue will focus on highlighting physical activity interventions aimed at the prevention of obesity in children and adolescents. We are particularly interested in, for instance, interventions conducted in at-risk, low-income, or minority youth and adolescents.
Thank you for considering the Healthcare as a scholarly outlet for disseminating your academic work.
Dr. Louise A. Kelly
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- physical activity
- sedentary behavior
- obesity
- overweight
- socio economic status
- accelerometry
- fundamental movement skills
- at-risk youth
- minority youth
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