Healthy Bodies and Minds

The Healthy Bodies and Minds topic aims to co-produce scalable community and system interventions to tackle the child and family obesity crisis.  It seeks to support the optimum physical health of children and families including prevention of obesity.

Healthy Bodies and Minds Projects

Setting up a community type 2 diabetes service for children and young people

When children and young people develop type 2 diabetes, it is a serious condition that can shorten their lives. People diagnosed with type 2 diabetes before they are 30 live,...

Tackling physical activity inequalities for Pakistani Muslim girls: Understanding behaviour and co-developing new intervention approaches

Data from Born in Bradford has consistently found that South Asian girls have the greatest risk of being inactive with only 22% meeting guidelines at age 7-11 years (compared to...

Forest school INterventions for Children’s Health

A growing number of children and young people are experiencing poor mental health. It is important to find ways to support them. A school-based intervention which is inclusive and has...

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Designing play into urban environments: strategic-level challenges and best practice in Bradford and Tower Hamlets, UK

Born and Bred in (BaBi): an efficient, place-based birth e-cohort network

Ambient air pollution and childhood obesity from infancy to late childhood: An individual participant data meta-analysis of 10 European birth cohorts