Policy paper
Healthy Lives, Healthy People: A Call to Action on Obesity in England
How the new approach to public health will encourage a wide range of partners to take action on obesity.
This was published under the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government
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This document announces new national ambitions for combined efforts to combat obesity:
- a sustained downward trend in the level of excess weight in children by 2020
- a downward trend in the level of excess weight averaged across all adults by 2020
Updates to this page
Published 13 October 2011