Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 18 April 2018

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs

Tackling Childhood Obesity: Discussion

9:30 am

Dr. Adele Keating:

On the stigma question, there should be a universal approach in community settings that is easily accessible. This can be built on to identify target populations from universal interventions to give more intensive interventions. If it is universal, it would be run in communities and be less stigmatising for parents. This means we would be better able to engage them than if it happened outside the community in clinical settings that they must be referred into.