1. Talking to families about overweight children
- Author
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Paul M. Sacher, Paul Chadwick, and Caroline Swain
- Subjects
medicine.medical_specialty ,Health professionals ,business.industry ,education ,General Medicine ,Primary care ,Direct feedback ,Overweight ,medicine.disease ,Obesity ,Family medicine ,medicine ,Physical therapy ,Child obesity ,medicine.symptom ,business ,health care economics and organizations - Abstract
As the prevalence of child obesity increases, and as primary care trusts increasingly take the step of giving parents direct feedback of their child’s weight, school nurses and other health professionals need to talk openly, but sensitively, about children’s weight
- Published
- 2008
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