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Empowering healthy lifestyle behaviour through personalised intervention portfolios to prevent and control obesity during vulnerable stages of life

Descripción del proyecto

Intervenciones personalizadas para prevenir la obesidad en grupos de edad vulnerables

La obesidad es un problema de salud que afecta a más del 30 % de los ciudadanos de la Unión Europea (UE). Las intervenciones dirigidas a la obesidad tienen una eficacia limitada, ya que se centran en la alimentación o la actividad física y descuidan otros factores como los aspectos socioeconómicos, los factores biológicos, el entorno, las preferencias de alimentarias y los niveles de forma física del receptor. El equipo del proyecto HealthyW8, financiado con fondos europeos, pretende aumentar la eficacia de las iniciativas actuales y futuras de prevención de la obesidad en toda Europa. Esto se logrará mediante el desarrollo iterativo de un sistema de recomendación digital de estilos de vida saludables, que proporcionará intervenciones y herramientas personalizadas y fundamentadas. En el proyecto participarán diversas partes interesadas, como profesionales sanitarios, industrias alimentarias, responsables políticos y ciudadanos de la UE. HealthyW8 estará destinado concretamente a tres grupos demográficos fundamentales: los niños, los adultos jóvenes y las personas mayores.

Objetivo

Over 30% of EU citizens at vulnerable stages and situations in life are at increased risk to transgress from healthy weight to overweight and further to obesity. Though many interventions to tackle obesity have been proposed, they have rarely been effective. The aim of HealthyW8 is to advance the efficacy of current and future efforts and investments in obesity prevention initiatives across Europe. Most interventions suffer from not adapting to personal context (e.g. socioeconomic aspects, host-biological factors, environment, dietary preferences, fitness level etc.), focus only on diet or physical activity alone, do especially overlook emotional aspects, and fail to engage and motivate the user. Thus, initiatives on obesity prevention in policy and practice are often of marginal impact. HealthyW8 will address these shortcomings by iteratively developing, together with stakeholders, a digital-based healthy lifestyle recommender for evidence-based, tailored interventions and tools including a human digital twin to bridge the gap between science, societal actors and stakeholders (e.g. healthcare professionals, food industries, policymakers) and EU citizens. The targeted populations are those undergoing transitions, i.e. schoolchildren (5-10 y, and their parents), young adults (18-25 y) and the elderly (>65 y). In the mid-term, we estimate that with 200,000 HealthyW8 users, we will prevent 10,000 obesity cases/y. In the long run, the impact will be maximized through adopting the project’s proposed methodology, platform and tools by as many EU institutions and entities as possible. HealthyW8 is a highly experienced, synergistic and complementary consortium that will built on a previously developed digital dietary app (LIFANA) and draw on transdisciplinary research in pan-EU multicentre pilots and long-term randomized control trials to achieve its overarching objective of increasing impact of current and future obesity prevention interventions and policies in the EU.

Coordinador

LUXEMBOURG INSTITUTE OF HEALTH
Aportación neta de la UEn
€ 1 736 361,25
Dirección
1A RUE RUE THOMAS EDISON
1445 Strassen
Luxemburgo

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Luxembourg Luxembourg Luxembourg
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Coste total
€ 1 736 361,25

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