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Staffordshire University(史塔福郡大学)
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一键免费快速申请文章正文综述详细专业照片新闻校友录已获Offer学生资料University experts are working with youngsters from dozens of schools across north Staffordshire in a bid to cut childhood obesity.University experts are working with youngsters from dozens of schools across north Staffordshire in a bid to cut childhood obesity.
Staffordshire University’s Centre for Sport & Exercise Research has been running the CHAMPS programme to encourage pupils to form healthy eating habits and take regular exercise.
The Children’s Health and Activity Monitoring Programme (CHAMPS) has ongoing funding and includes two sports colleges, 17 High Schools, 75 Primary Schools and five Special Schools in and around Stoke-on-Trent.
The Government has expressed concern about obesity, with Health Secretary Alan Johnson suggesting the nation’s problem was “a potential crisis on the scale of climate change.”
Government figures suggest half the population could be obese within 25 years, with the cost of the epidemic, in terms of health care provision and lost work hours, possibly set to reach £45bn a year by 2050.
Researchers have worked with over 1,000 school children in north and south Stoke.
There are several aims to the research including a surveillance monitoring system which will be set up to track children’s physical activity levels.
A pilot intervention has begun in several schools which will include a more physically active school curriculum and after school activities, incorporating a wide range of health initiatives, delivered by school and community partners to create a school environment that encouraged healthier physical activity behaviors.
Workshops and events will be held with parents, teachers and pupils from the schools with the aim of raising awareness of children's health.
Professor Rachel Davey, Director of the Centre for Sport & Exercise Research, said: “This is a tremendous opportunity for us to help create healthier lives for the local school population and to address the significant challenge of halting the obesity epidemic.”
Hilary Jones, Dean of the Faculty of Health, gave the welcome address.
She said: “Partnership working is crucial for the health and well being of communities such as Stoke on Trent and North Staffordshire and the staff of the Faculty are pleased to be able to contribute.”
The Network Conference at Staffordshire University also gave delegates an opportunity to highlight best-practice strategies employed in support of the 2010 ambition of four hours’ high quality physical education and school sport (PESS) and to plan for the challenge of sustaining the long-term legacy of the 2012 London Olympics.
Delegates participated in a range of practical workshops on topics including daily physical activity, national and local research projects, gifted and talented provision, school to club links, community sports coach deployment and multi-skills and school sport associations.
Funding for the project came from the Medical Research Council and National Prevention Research Initiative.
