Encouraging general practitioners to complete the four-year-old Healthy Kids Check and provide healthy eating and physical activity messages.

Conclusions: Boosting HKC claims and healthy eating and physical activity messages in general practice is feasible. More intensive strategies are required if obesity prevention and management benefits are to be achieved. Implications: General practice is an important but under-utilised source of advice for parents and data for policy makers on childhood obesity in Australia. PMID: 24750555 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

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Source: Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health - April 22, 2014 Category: Global & Universal Authors: Bell AC, Campbell E, Francis JL, Wiggers J Tags: Aust N Z J Public Health Source Type: research