Smarter Choices Smarter Places is a Scottish Government partnership project with COSLA. Designed to increase active travel and public transport use and tackle transport emissions, it will contribute to a number of objectives in the Scottish Government's National Performance Framework, and Local Authorities' Single Outcome Agreements.
Lessons from EPODE, a French programme which has cut childhood obesity by almost a quarter in participating towns are to be trialled in eight towns, villages and cities in Scotland.
This community initiative was launched in 2004 in 10 towns in France and is an intervention for children aged 5-12 who are overweight or at risk of weight gain.
Ten primary care trusts in neighbourhood renewal areas across England have been selected to run pilot schemes--Local Exercise Action Pilots, or LEAPs--to encourage people to take up more physical activity.
We Can! stands for Ways to Enhance Children's Activity & Nutrition. We Can! is a national education programme in America designed for parents and cares to help children 8-13 years old stay at a healthy weight.
The Paths for All Partnership established the Paths to Health project in 2001 to contribute to health improvement in Scotland through the promotion of walking for health.