Based on the rationale that community-based programs, carried out at local level, integrated into municipality health policies, seem to respond effectively to trends in childhood obesity and gaining from the success and the experience of the implementation of AMEA teens, CEIDSS launched the AMEA kids project.
The AMEA kids Project – Health promotion in children – coordinated by CEIDSS, has the main goal on tackling and preventing overweight and childhood obesity, following the success of programs based on a interdisciplinary strategy to the ones most at risk, especially those with a low socioeconomic status and where overweight and obesity childhood are more prevalent.