How do we create healthy, active schools?
Increasing levels of obesity and physical inactivity have raised concerns across Europe. In the United Kingdom over a third of children leave school classified as obese. Schools are key sites in attempts to improve health and wellbeing in children. This event will explore ways to make schools healthier and more active places. Drawing on experiences from Norway and London, this one day session will bring together perspectives from researchers, practitioners, and educators on techniques for improving health, wellbeing, and physical activity in schools.
Geir Kåre Resaland from the Sogn og Fjordane University College in Norway, along with Tom Wergaland from Trudvang school, will describe their experiencs of promoting physical activity and health through the school curriculum and these will be complemented with case studies from the UK.
Organiser: Harry Rutter
Harry is a senior clinical research fellow at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine. He is a public health physician with expertise in obesity and its determinants, transport, environment, sustainability, climate change, complexity, systems, knowledge translation, and policy. Harry was the founder director of the National Obesity Observatory 2007-2011. He led the establishment of the Department of Health National Child Measurement Programme; and was a core contributor to the WHO Health Economic Assessment Tool for Walking and Cycling.
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