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

Descrizione del progetto

Interventi personalizzati per prevenire l’obesità nelle fasce d’età vulnerabili

L’obesità è un problema di salute che colpisce oltre il 30% dei cittadini dell’UE. Gli interventi mirati a contrastarla hanno un’efficacia limitata perché si concentrano sulla dieta o sull’attività fisica, trascurando altri fattori importanti come gli aspetti socioeconomici, le caratteristiche biologiche dell’individuo interessato, l’ambiente, le preferenze alimentari e i livelli di forma fisica. Il progetto HealthyW8, finanziato dall’UE, si prefigge di migliorare l’efficacia delle iniziative di prevenzione dell’obesità attualmente esistenti in tutta Europa, nonché di quelle che saranno messe in atto in futuro. Questo obiettivo sarà raggiunto attraverso lo sviluppo iterativo di un sistema di raccomandazione di stili di vita sani basato sul digitale, che fornirà interventi e strumenti personalizzati basati sulle evidenze. Il progetto coinvolgerà diverse parti interessate, tra cui operatori sanitari, industrie alimentari, responsabili politici e cittadini dell’UE, rivolgendosi in particolare a tre gruppi demografici chiave: bambini, giovani adulti e anziani.

Obiettivo

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.

Coordinatore

LUXEMBOURG INSTITUTE OF HEALTH
Contribution nette de l'UE
€ 1 736 361,25
Indirizzo
1A RUE RUE THOMAS EDISON
1445 Strassen
Lussemburgo

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Regione
Luxembourg Luxembourg Luxembourg
Tipo di attività
Research Organisations
Collegamenti
Costo totale
€ 1 736 361,25

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