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

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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,...

Healthy Families

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...

Healthy Families

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...

Making a Difference: Our Latest Healthy Bodies and Minds case studies

IMPACT SNAPSHOT: BASIL+ Trial: Preventing Loneliness and Depression in Older People

We created an evidence-based telehealth intervention preventing loneliness in older adults, demonstrating £8 saved for every £1 invested and influencing national policy.

10 Year Plan Mental Health Older People

IMPACT SNAPSHOT: BASIL+ Trial: Preventing Loneliness and Depression in Older People

We created an evidence-based telehealth intervention preventing loneliness in older adults, demonstrating £8 saved for every £1 invested and influencing national policy.

Our latest Healthy Bodies and Minds publications

Healthy Families

Nurturing in nature: an evaluation of a nature-based group for parents and caregivers of babies and young children – a thematic analysis and logic model

Healthy Families

An assessment of the teacher completed ‘Early Years Foundation Stage Profile’ as a routine measure of child developmental health

Healthy Families

Internal consistency and structural validity of the parent-report preschool (2-4 years) Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire in 1-year-old children

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