Obesity data resources

National Child Measurement Programme - West Midlands Results 2009/10

The results of the National Child Measurement Programme (NCMP) for England, 2009/10 school year were released by the Information Centre for Health and Social Care on 15th December 2010. Providing headline findings for the 2009/10 NCMP. Their report presents high-level analysis of the prevalence of ‘underweight', ‘healthy weight', ‘overweight' and ‘obese' children, in Reception (aged 4–5 years) and Year 6 (aged 10–11 years), measured in state schools in England in the school year 2009/10. The National Obesity Observatory (NOO) will produce additional analysis in 2011 (expected to be published in March 2011). The anonymised national dataset will be made available to Public Health Observatories (PHOs) (expected end of January 2011) to allow regional and local analysis of the data.

This WMPHO NCMP excel tool presents results for the West Midlands Region of participation, obesity, overweight, healthy weight and underweight prevalence in the 2009/10 school year to the previous figures from 2008/9, 2007/8 and 2006/7. The WMPHO tool highlights statistically significantly differences both over time and between areas as well as charting the results.

West Midlands National Child Measurement Programme: School Year 2008/9

The West Midlands Public Health Observatory’s report on the National Child Measurement Programme (NCMP) follows on from work presented earlier at a regional NCMP workshop and builds on the previous work by the Information Centre and the National Obesity Observatory. This report focuses on the West Midlands, investigating results from the NCMP 2008/09 for PCTs in the West Midlands and examines whether there are detectable changes in prevalence in the West Midlands between the three years of NCMP data.
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National Obesity Observatory website

The new National Obesity Observatory was established to provide a single point of contact for wide-ranging authoritative information on data, evidence and practice related to obesity, overweight, underweight and their determinants. Many resources are available from their website www.noo.org.uk.

Other Resources

Title	Date Published	Publication Type	Metadata
National Child Measurement Programme - West Midlands Results 2009/10	14 Jan 2011	Microsoft Excel Spreadsheet	View
West Midlands National Child Measurement Programme: School Year 2008/9	12 Nov 2010	Adobe Acrobat Document	View
Presentation on NCMP 2008/9 in the West Midlands	22 Oct 2010	Adobe Acrobat Document	View
Child Health	29 Sep 2010	html	View
NCMP West Midlands Results 2008/2009	12 Mar 2010	Microsoft Excel Spreadsheet	View
National Child Measurement Programme West Midlands Results 2007/2008	22 Oct 2009	Adobe Acrobat Document	View
Preventing Obesity: Regional Delivery, Going Further Faster: Conference Summary	4 Jul 2008	Adobe Acrobat Document	View
National Child Measurement Programme: Detailed Analysis of the 2006/07 National Dataset	1 Jun 2008	html	View
National Child Measurement Programme (NCMP) Results 2006/07: Prevalence and participation rates by PCT, West Midlands, 2006/07	21 Feb 2008	Microsoft Excel Spreadsheet	View

Local Profiles

Health statistics for the West Midlands are available from our Local Profiles pages. These include population, deaths, hospital admissions and Children's BMI.