Objectives HOPE project
The HOPE project aims to support and advance the development and implementation of effective European, national and regional policies for obesity prevention and their negative consequences on health and health inequalities, by providing estimates of the potential impact of interventions directed at key behavioural and environmental determinants of obesity in the European Union.
The project aims to:
Create a European scientific network on environmental determinants and interventions of nutrition, physical activity, overweight and obesity prevention. This network of networks will put together all expertise and projects that are currently ongoing or being developed in the area of nutrition, physical activity, overweight and obesity, and socio-economic inequalities in these issues within the European Union. Based on this knowledge integration, the project Steering Committee will serve as a scientific advisory and consultancy board to the European Commission and Member State representatives for the formulation of evidence-based policies;
- Carry out quantitative analyses, modelling and systematic reviews on obesogenic physical activity and nutrition behaviours, their environmental determinants, consequences on health and health inequalities among children and adults, and prevention interventions, in order to provide an evidence-based inventory of best practices for the development of evidence-based policies and interventions for obesity prevention across the European Union.
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Both proximal and distal key determinants of overweight and obesity will be studied. Click on 'proximal determinants' or 'distal determinants' for more detail.
A conceptual diagram of obesity determinants can be found here.
