Guidance

Child weight management: short conversations with families

Practical advice and tools to support health and care professionals have conversations about weight management with children and their families.

• From: Public Health England
• Published: 3 October 2017

Documents

Let’s talk about weight: a step-by-step guide to conversations about weight management with children and families for health and care professionals

Ref: PHE publications gateway number 2017402

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Let’s talk about weight: infographic

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Details

This document offers tips on the short conversations health and care professionals should be having with overweight and obese patients about weight loss. It provides:

• practical advice on how to discuss weight loss
• tools to support making brief interventions

Published 3 October 2017