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The Pacific Obesity Prevention in Communities project : project overview and methods

Swinburn, B. A., Millar, L., Utter, J., Kremer, P., Moodie, M., Mavoa, H., Snowdon, W., McCabe, M. P., Malakellis, M., de Courten, M., Waqa, G., Fotu, K. F., Roberts, G. and Scragg, R. 2011, The Pacific Obesity Prevention in Communities project : project overview and methods, Obesity reviews, vol. 12, no. Supplement 2, pp. 3-11.

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Title The Pacific Obesity Prevention in Communities project : project overview and methods
Author(s) Swinburn, B. A.
Millar, L.
Utter, J.
Kremer, P.
Moodie, M.
Mavoa, H.
Snowdon, W.
McCabe, M. P.
Malakellis, M.
de Courten, M.
Waqa, G.
Fotu, K. F.
Roberts, G.
Scragg, R.
Journal name Obesity reviews
Volume number 12
Issue number Supplement 2
Start page 3
End page 11
Publisher Wiley-Blackwell
Place of publication Oxford, England
Publication date 2011-11
ISSN 1467-7881
Keyword(s) economic
obesity
policy
socio-cultural
Summary Obesity is increasing worldwide with the Pacific region having the highest prevalence among adults. The most common precursor of adult obesity is adolescent obesity making this a critical period for prevention. The Pacific Obesity Prevention in Communities project was a four-country project (Fiji, Tonga, New Zealand and Australia) designed to prevent adolescent obesity. This paper overviews the project and the methods common to the four countries. Each country implemented a community-based intervention programme promoting healthy eating, physical activity and healthy weight in adolescents. A community capacity-building approach was used, with common processes employed but with contextualized interventions within each country. Changes in anthropometric, behavioural and perception outcomes were evaluated at the individual level and school environments and community capacity at the settings level. The evaluation tools common to each are described. Additional analytical studies included economic, socio-cultural and policy studies. The project pioneered many areas of obesity prevention research: using multi-country collaboration to build research capacity; testing a capacity-building approach in ethnic groups with very high obesity prevalence; costing complex, long-term community intervention programmes; systematically studying the powerful socio-cultural influences on weight gain; and undertaking a participatory, national, priority-setting process for policy interventions using simulation modelling of cost-effectiveness of interventions.
Language eng
Field of Research 111704 Community Child Health
Socio Economic Objective 920401 Behaviour and Health
HERDC Research category C1 Refereed article in a scholarly journal
Copyright notice ©2011, International Association for the Study of Obesity
Persistent URL http://hdl.handle.net/10536/DRO/DU:30039776

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Collections: School of Psychology
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