In the upcoming five years, OBCT provides health professionals, researchers, policy makers and the public with knowledge, maps and tools to support sustainable prevention of obesity, with a particular focus on low SEP communities. To achieve this, we quantify the contribution of biological, sociocultural and built environmental risk factors of obesity risks and the interactions in and across various life stages, and translate the resulting knowledge into practical and effective tools for action. Specifically, OBCT will:
Advance the current understanding of obesity risks and predictors, and the role of SEP across the life-course
Determine the importance of specific obesity-related behaviours to prevent obesity at key life stage transitions
Develop a holistic obesity risk screener for use by the public at large and by health professionals
Provide country-specific estimates of trends in obesity
Provide a digital atlas on the obesogenicity of environments
Characterise obesity-related cardiometabolic risk profiles over gender, age and SEP
Develop tailored lifestyle recommendations
Determine the impact of obesity-related policies on inequality
Provide a decision support dashboard for policy makers
Provide co-developed toolboxes to support implementation of policy recommendations in low-SEP communities.
OBCT’s outputs will highlight where and in which domains obesity is to be targeted, and empower the research community, policymakers, health professionals and citizens to adapt and implement policies to reduce obesity risk, thereby helping to prevent obesity -particularly in low SEP communities - throughout Europe.