An annual international awareness and advocacy observance organized by the World Obesity Federation, first held on October 11, 2015 and moved to a new date of March 4 starting in 2020. World Obesity Day maintains official relations with the World Health Organization and collaborates with the Lancet Commission on Obesity, and it is used each year as a platform to raise awareness of the global obesity crisis and to advocate for practical solutions, with each edition built around a different thematic focus that has ranged from childhood obesity to the systemic health inequities and environmental factors that influence obesity rates around the world.
Facts
Sponsoring BodyWorld Obesity Federation 1 Program status (class) Classification
Program KindHealth Education Program 1 Connections
Delivers Practice
Entity-backed identity for the program-kind enum value this public health program already carries, resolved to a health practice by an explicit value-to-entity map (phase 3 bucket conversion, docs\design_entity_backed_browse_buckets_20260928.md). The program-kind fact itself stays on the program unchanged.
Sources
1. World Obesity Day, Wikipedia
History, first observance sentence
The first World Obesity Day took place in 2015.
Lead section, organizer sentence
It is organized by the World Obesity Federation, a non-profit body which is in official relations with the World Health Organization (WHO).
- Wikipedia 'World Obesity Day': annual event with a 2026 theme reported; checked 2026-09-27.
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