Being a healthy weight supports both physical and mental health. People of a healthy weight live longer lives, with a greater proportion free of disability and ill health.
Being a healthy weight can help prevent a number of chronic diseases including diabetes, heart disease, cancer and stroke, as well as reducing the impact of other conditions such as arthritis.
The Cwm Taf Morgannwg Healthy Weight team are working closing with Local Authorities, community groups and key public services to build healthier communities, where the healthy choice is the easy choice and people are supported to live healthy, happy and prosperous lives. This whole system approach looks at the bigger picture rather than trying to change one small thing at a time.
Create Healthier Communities Together
The Cwm Taf Morgannwg Healthy Weight programme has three missions as a part of the of the Creating Health agenda within CTM2030. These are
We want to lead a change in the way we talk and think about obesity in CTM, and support all stakeholders to understand their role in supporting babies being born today to grow up to be a healthy weight.
Work with other stakeholders to take opportunities to design CTM better by shaping our environment so that it supports individuals living and working in CTM to live healthier lives.
We will work together across the whole system to do more of the things we believe will reshape our environment by increasing our stakeholder’s access to data, information and evidence on what is most likely to prevent obesity in CTM – so that they can make more effective funding applications and increase prevention capacity across CTM. This will include designing policies and strategies which create the conditions for improved health for future generations, publishing information and guidance on healthy weight interventions that work and supporting stakeholders to reshape our environment so that ‘healthy’ is the easiest and most convenient choice. At the same time we will provide unwavering support for individuals already struggling with obesity who are striving to lead healthy, happy, and prosperous lives.
At the heart of our strategy lies a holistic, whole-system approach, focusing on the enduring, underlying factors driving obesity rather than merely addressing individual behaviours in isolation.
The above areas will be worked on through the following themes detailed below:
For more information on Welsh Government’s Healthy Weight, Healthy Wales strategy, please visit Healthy Weight: Healthy Wales.
For more information on Healthy Weight in Wales, please visit Overweight and Obesity - Public Health Wales.
If you have any questions on Healthy Weight in Cwm Taf Morgannwg please contact CTM.HealthyWeight@wales.nhs.uk.