Tackling childhood obesity in the wake of covid-19: lessons from Chile

Modi and Hanson highlight the importance of placing the health of children at the centre of post-pandemic measures to reduce social inequality, improve population health, and promote economic recovery.1 They rightly call for policies aimed at socioeconomic determinants of health, in order to break existing structures of disadvantage. The Chilean response to the childhood obesity epidemic offers an example of public health interventions tackling...