Edition 22, August - September 2017
Focus on the system rather than individuals and the disease, experts urge
Chief investigators and researchers met in Sydney this week to discuss four years of collective nutrition research projects at the Prevention Centre. The findings of these projects have shed light on what is needed to prevent chronic disease beyond individual behaviour change, to
what needs to happen across the food environment, how to monitor government policy, what
key structural policy issues need to be addressed, and what should be done in policy areas beyond health.
Liveability project expanded A Prevention Centre research project is collaborating to develop a new online tool that identifies how the built environment
affects people’s health based on where they live.
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Science and story-telling Our Communications Manager,
Marge Overs, experienced science communications training with a
difference at the Alan Alda Center
for Communicating Science.
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Insights into using systems approachesWhat does systems thinking look like in practice? In these short videos, we hear from three leading systems thinkers, including Professor Mike Kelly (right), who offer a practical perspective on what it means to do systems work.
Community health and prevention: there's a will but not a wayA PhD research project has found that clinical managers in the ACT believe community health services have a responsibility to work with people who are overweight and obese, but the services lack the capacity for the sustained effort required.
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How IT monitoring affects prevention delivery Many IT projects in clinical practice are plagued by poor success rates and high price tags. Dr Katie Conte, Lina Persson and Deni Fukunishi describe a Prevention Centre project that is exploring why NSW Health's Population Health Information Management System has remained strong for more than five years.
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A roadmap for achieving best practice
in obesity prevention policyDr Gary Sacks led a project that benchmarked the
obesity-related policies of Australian governments against international best practice. His findings offer a roadmap
for jurisdictions to prevent obesity and diet-related chronic diseases. Dr Sacks presented his key findings in a
recent webinar.
From the director Prevention Centre researchers and partners met last week to consider what we've learnt about partnership research and to discuss plans for a second term of funding.
News wrap Our collated summary of media, research and great reads, including inequity and tobacco, the debate over e-cigarettes, and why loneliness is a risk factor for chronic disease.
Call for entries The Sax Institute’s Research Action Awards celebrate researchers whose work has made a real-world impact on health policy, programs or service delivery.
Connecting with … Karen LeeKaren is part of the evaluation team at the Prevention Centre and has a surprising musical background.
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