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SUMMARY:Seminar – Systems approaches to obesity: The lived experience of
  young people - Dr Wendy Wills\, Professor of Food and Public Health\, Dir
 ector of the Centre for Research in Public Health and Community Care.
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CONTACT:Paul Browne
DESCRIPTION:_This seminar will be broadcast live online\, please register 
 in advance for this meeting:\n\nhttps://mrc-epid.zoom.us/meeting/register/
 vpQrd-6ppjoqAvGk1KBPI67z-trzgcH-dA  \n\nPlease use your institutional emai
 l address for registration (if possible) and complete your registration at
  least 30 minutes prior to the seminar so that you will receive the confir
 mation email/access link before the seminar (your registration will be man
 ually checked and approved). \n\nIf you do not receive the confirmation an
 d link within 12 hours of registration please check your junk/quarantine/s
 pam email folders\, and if it’s not there contact us at seminars@mrc-epi
 d.cam.ac.uk so that we can check your registration and resend the confirma
 tion email._\n\nDoing nothing about obesity is not a realistic option but 
 given the multiple and interlinked causes of excess weight\, simplistic so
 lutions are not effective at population level. Local authorities are adopt
 ing systems approaches to address obesity and one important element of suc
 h an approach is to understand public perceptions about ‘systems’ with
 in a locality\, i.e. the factors experienced as influencing weight.\n\nIn 
 this seminar I will discuss the rationale for a consultation that enabled 
 young people to talk about growing up in Stevenage\, Hertfordshire. The co
 nsultation\, part of the local authority agenda to plan healthy weight ini
 tiatives\, considered the local factors linked with excess weight\, from y
 oung people’s perspectives. Affordability\, crime and anti-social behavi
 our\, transport and places to go and eat were identified by young people a
 s issues that influence obesity in their local area. These findings will i
 nform the direction of preventative weight services.\n\n
LOCATION:Online
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