Table 2 Additional information about the environmental strategies 1
Actions for parents | Skill development practices (e.g. cooking healthy, getting skills for reading the food label), increasing knowledge (e.g. phone counselling connected to family insights about obesity), and access to health care facilities. |
Professional training | Training of health professionals, teachers or other providers of intervention activities. |
Media attention | Articles in local media, newspapers, mass media (e.g. TV and radio), public campaigns, flyers, in some cases congresses or a district health day, and/or provision of general information to raise awareness (e.g. leaflets). |
Changing the social environment | Involvement of churches, professors, parents and social actors in creating social networks to stimulate a healthier environment for children (e.g. folk festivals), provision of social support or funds to stimulate relevant activities as proposed by community members, signposting to activities in which friendships can be sustained, creating a feeling of safety by replacing youth that hangs around, improving attitude of teachers (or other role models), involvement of local stakeholders not related to the health sector |
Changing the physical environment | Availability of safe and healthier options for public transportation (e.g. biking lines, walking routes), healthy products in kindergarten or school canteen, improved schoolyards and playground facilities, construction of safe routes for promoting active commuting to school, or free provision of healthy foods (milk, fruit). |
Incentives | Discount on participation in sports or on healthy food, reduced family membership to local leisure services offered to participating families, available budget for activities organized by the school (resource access) |
Service access | Providing more or improved access to sports or leisure time activities, |
Regulation | Agreements between organizations involved or changes in the specific rules about school provided meals, code of self-regulation of the advertising of food products with the aim of establishing a set of guidelines to help companies participating in the development, implementation and dissemination of their advertising messages directed at minors. Contracts for cooperation and mutual support were signed by supporting organizations.; e.g. regulation between catering services and kindergarden or school |