PromoKids webinar 2023
Promoting Health and Equity in Children of the Nordic region - Focusing on Nordic Nutrition Recommendations 2023, monitoring and weight stigma
Date: Friday 17th of November 2023
Time:
- 9:00-16:15 (CET) (Danish, Swedish and Norwegian time)
- 8:00 to 15:15 (Icelandic time)
- 10:00 to 17:15 (Finnish time)
Place: Webinar via Zoom application. Join the webinar via this link.
Live event for speakers and invited participants at Western Norway University in Bergen.
Please register for the webinar by 10th of November 2023.
The Zoom link will be sent to participants who have registered for the webinar.
Agenda
Chair Heli Kuusipalo, Senior Adviser, Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare, Finland
9:00-9:10
Opening
Ingrid Leversen, Head of National Centre for Food, Health and Physical Activity, Western Norway University of Applied Sciences
9:10-9:20
PromoKids - our story, looking back and plans for the future
Lauren Lissner, Professor, University of Gothenburg, Sweden
Session 1. New Nordic Nutrition Recommendations - How we can use recommendations to prevent childhood overweight and obesity
9:20-9:40
The Nordic Nutrition Recommendations 2023 in a nutshell
Satu Männistö, Research Manager, Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare
9:40-10:00
The Norwegian process of revising the national dietary guidelines after the Nordic Nutrition Recommendations
Eva Rustad de Brisis, Senior Adviser, Norwegian Directorate of Health
10:00-10:20
The Nordic Nutrition Recommendations - How to approach childhood obesity
Berglind Lilja Gudlaugsdottir, MSc in Nutrition Science and PhD student in health promotion, School of Education, University of Iceland, Iceland
10:20-10:40
Break
10:40-11:00
What are the implications of the Nordic Nutrition Recommendations for early life, children and adolescents?
Emma Patterson, Associate Professor/Nutritionist, Swedish Food Agency, Sweden
11:00-11:20
Ultra-processed foods and overweight and obesity
Simon Erling Nitter Dankel, Professor, University of Bergen, Norway
11:20-11:40
Food education and sustainable nutrition,
Silja Varjonen, Executive Manager, the Finnish Society for Food Education, Ruukku, Finland
11:40-12:40
Lunch break
Session 2. Monitoring trends in childhood obesity and socioeconomic inequalities – why and how?
Chair Pétur Benedikt Juliusson, Department Director, Health Register Research and Development, National Institute of Public Health, Norway
12:40-12:55
Overweight and obesity in Finnish children and adolescents – Background and development of a national registry
Päivi Mäki, Development Manager, Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare, Finland
12:55-13:10
Plans and status for a Norwegian registry for weight and height
Øyvind Christensen, Senior Adviser, Norwegian Health Directorate, Norway
13:10-13:25
Social Inequality in Childhood Obesity in Denmark: data from public health surveillance
Christina Bjørk Petersen, Head of Research and Associate professor, National Institute of Public Health, Denmark
13.25-13.40
Break
13:40-13:55
How could we develop a monitor system on children’s height and weight at national level?
Annika Janson, Associate Professor/Pediatrician, National Childhood Obesity Centre, Karolinska University Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden
13:55-14:10
Monitoring trends in Iceland - what is being done and what would be optimal with regard to obesity prevention and early treatment
Ragnar Bjarnason, Professor of Pediatrics, University of Iceland and Chief of Pediatrics, Landspitali, Reykjavik, Iceland
14:10-14:30
Panel discussion - Can we learn from each other?
Panelists from each country: Iceland, Norway, Sweden, Finland, Denmark
Panel leader Pétur Benedikt Juliusson, Department Director, Health Register Research and Development, National Institute of Public Health, Norway
14:30-14:45
Coffee break
Session 3. How to avoid stigmatizing children with overweight and obesity?
Chair, Ingunn Holden Bergh, Researcher, Norwegian Institute of Public Health, Norway
14:45-15:05
Introduction on weight stigma - parents, children, and adolescents
Terhi Koivumäki, Doctoral Researcher, Tampere University, Finland
15:05-15:25
The experience of height and weight screening and the association with body image among children in Norwegian elementary school
Tove Langlo Drilen, Clinical Dietician/Ph.D candidate, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway
15:25-15:45
Why it is still mandatory to measure children’s height and weight in Denmark
Tatjana Hejgaard, Senior Adviser, Danish Health Authority, Denmark
15:45-16:00
How to decrease socioeconomic inequality and weight stigma in childhood?
Terhi Koivumäki, Doctoral Researcher, Tampere University, Finland
16:00-16:15
Closing the seminar
Ingunn Holden Bergh, Researcher, Norwegian Institute of Public Health, Norway
