Health Promotion Board-Ministry of Health Clinical Practice Guidelines: Obesity

The Health Promotion Board (HPB) has developed the Clinical Practice Guidelines (CPG) on Obesity to provide health professionals in Singapore with recommendations for evidence-based interventions for obesity. This article summarises the introduction, epidemiology and executive summary of the key rec...

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Published in:Singapore medical journal 2016-06, Vol.57 (6), p.292-300
Main Authors: Lee, Yung Seng, Biddle, Stuart, Chan, Mei Fen, Cheng, Anton, Cheong, Magdalin, Chong, Yap Seng, Foo, Ling Li, Lee, Chung Horn, Lim, Su Chi, Ong, Wee Sian, Pang, Jonathan, Pasupathy, Shanker, Sloan, Robert, Seow, Mollie, Soon, Grace, Tan, Benedict, Tan, Thiam Chye, Teo, Soo Lay, Tham, Kwang Wei, van Dam, Rob M, Wang, John
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Adolescent
Anthropometry
Body Mass Index
Child
Clinical Practice Guidelines
Evidence-Based Medicine
Female
Health Promotion - standards
Humans
Male
Obesity - epidemiology
Obesity - therapy
Pediatric Obesity - epidemiology
Pediatric Obesity - therapy
Practice Guidelines as Topic
Singapore
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Summary:The Health Promotion Board (HPB) has developed the Clinical Practice Guidelines (CPG) on Obesity to provide health professionals in Singapore with recommendations for evidence-based interventions for obesity. This article summarises the introduction, epidemiology and executive summary of the key recommendations from the HPB-MOH CPG on Obesity for the information of SMJ readers. The chapters and page numbers mentioned in the reproduced extract refer to the full text of the guidelines, which are available from the Health Promotion Board website: http://www.hpb.gov.sg/cpg-obesity. The recommendations should be used with reference to the full text of the guidelines. Following this article are multiple choice questions based on the full text of the guidelines.
ISSN:0037-5675
DOI:10.11622/smedj.2016103