Last updated on December 20th, 2024 at 05:50 pm
The Gasol Foundation promotes the development of the 1st Spanish National Strategic Plan for the Reduction of Childhood Obesity together with the Government of Spain.
National Strategic Plan to reduce childhood obesity aims to embrace this mission by empowering and working together with families, teachers, health professionals, companies, third-sector entities, public administrations at all levels, and, of course, children and adolescents themselves to control and reduce the alarming rates of excess weight in Spain.
The Spanish government has promoted and coordinated this plan through the High Commission against Child Poverty (“Alto Comisionado contra la Pobreza Infantil”), with the Gasol Foundation as a key ally. A national alliance is detailed in the plan, aiming to generate multilevel and cascading actions in different public administrations, the scientific sector, the third sector, companies, and civil society, with a primary aim to achieve, within the next ten years, a reduction of 25% of overweight and obesity among children and adolescents in Spain.
National Strategic Plan aims to achieve, within the next ten years, a reduction of 25% of overweight and obesity among children and adolescents in the country
The key to achieving this goal is to act in their surroundings by promoting an ecosystem that supports healthy lifestyles. The plan addresses six strategic lines:
- Generating ecosystems that promote:
- physical activity
- healthy diets
- emotional well-being and sleep quality
- strengthen systems to encourage healthy lifestyles
- ensuring health protection of childhood
- creating a cultural shift towards healthier lifestyles
In total, 200 multisectoral actions are proposed in the plan. For example, the generation of an ecosystem that promotes physical activity, such as ensuring universal economic access to sports, increasing extracurricular physical activity in schools, and using school sports facilities as open spaces, are described.
Spain plans to reduce childhood obesity by 25% over the next 8 years.
On June 10, Pau Gasol, president of the Gasol Foundation (the foundation of the brothers Pau and whose mission is to prevent childhood obesity), participated in the presentation of the National Strategic Plan for the Reduction of Childhood Obesity.
The Gasol Foundation and the Government of Spain
The President of the Spanish Government, Pedro Sánchez; the High Commissioner against Child Poverty, Ernesto Gasco; and the co-founder of the Gasol Foundation, Pau Gasol, presented the cross-cutting plan to reduce childhood obesity by 25% by 2030.
- The Gasol Foundation has acted as a strategic ally in the development of the Plan, and the High Commissioner against Child Poverty has carried out its coordination. In addition, 15 ministries, 18 scientific institutions, 13 third-sector organizations, and 25 associations and federations representing the economic sector have participated.
- Spain leads all countries of the European Union in child excess weight: 4 out of 10 girls and boys are living with obesity or overweight.
- In addition, obesity has doubled in girls and adolescents in the last 20 years.
- The National Strategic Plan for the Reduction of Childhood Obesity adopts a transversal, multilevel and holistic vision to reverse one of the main health challenges of the 21st century.
“This National Strategic Plan for the Reduction of Childhood Obesity represents a before and after in the history of our country and is a turning point for all children and adolescents in Spain”, commented the president of the Gasol Foundation, Pau Gasol. “Spain has all the conditions to become a world leader in the prevention of childhood obesity and in the promotion of healthy habits with strategic policies and leading by example.”
Key Highlights of 2024 (based on available information):
- Publication of the PASOS Study: The foundation presented the findings of the PASOS study, which analyzed the health habits of children in Spain and highlighted the impact of socioeconomic inequalities on children’s health.
- Focus on Equity: The foundation emphasized the importance of addressing health disparities and ensuring that all children have access to healthy opportunities, regardless of socioeconomic background.
- Continued Growth and Impact: The Gasol Foundation expanded its reach and impact, significantly contributing to the fight against childhood obesity.
About the Gasol Foundation
According to data from the World Health Organization (WHO), childhood obesity is a phenomenon that affects 124 million boys and girls between the ages of 5 and 19 throughout the world. Specifically in Spain, 1 in 3 minors between the ages of 8 and 16 is living overweight or obese, according to the STEPS study by the Gasol Foundation.
Faced with this reality, the foundation was created in 2013 by the brothers Pau and Marc Gasol – NBA players and All-Stars – to prevent childhood obesity in Spain and the US.
With this purpose, the entity, a member of the World Obesity Federation, focuses its efforts on the implementation of programs and initiatives to promote healthy habits – physical activity and sports, healthy eating, sleep, and the emotional well-being of minors and their families – and has become a benchmark center in the fight against this pandemic and its commitment to scientific research in the child health field.
Source & Credits
https://www.comisionadopobrezainfantil.gob.es
https://www.worldobesity.org/news/spain-presents-national-strategic-plan-to-reduce-childhood-obesity
https://www.isglobal.org/en/healthisglobal/-/custom-blog-portlet/el-plan-estrategico-nacional-para-la-reduccion-de-la-obesidad-infantil-en-espana-la-clave-es-la-creacion-de-ecosistemas-promotores-de-la-salud/10279550/0
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