Preventing childhood obesity : the sentinel site for obesity prevention in Victoria, Australia Bell, A. Colin, Simmons, Anne, Sanigorski, Andrea M., Kremer, Peter J. and Swinburn, Boyd A. 2008, Preventing childhood obesity : the sentinel site for obesity prevention in Victoria, Australia, Health promotion international, vol. 23, no. 4, pp. 328-336, doi: 10.1093/heapro/dan025. Attached Files Name Description MIMEType Size Downloads Title Preventing childhood obesity : the sentinel site for obesity prevention in Victoria, Australia Author(s) Bell, A. Colin orcid.org/0000-0003-2731-9858 Simmons, Anne Sanigorski, Andrea M. Kremer, Peter J. orcid.org/0000-0003-2476-1958 Swinburn, Boyd A. Journal name Health promotion international Volume number 23 Issue number 4 Start page 328 End page 336 Total pages 9 Publisher Oxford University Press Place of publication Oxford, England Publication date 2008-12 ISSN 0957-4824 1460-2245 Keyword(s) childhood obesity prevention capacity building demonstration program Summary In spite of greater awareness of the need for action to reduce obesity, the evidence on sustainable community approaches to prevent childhood and adolescent obesity is surprisingly sparse. This paper describes the design and methodological components of the Sentinel Site for Obesity Prevention, a demonstration site in the Barwon-South West region of Victoria, Australia, that aims to build the programs, skills and evidence necessary to attenuate and eventually reverse the obesity epidemic in children and adolescents. The Sentinel Site for Obesity Prevention is based on a partnership between the region's university (Deakin University) and its health, education and local government agencies. The three basic foundations of the Sentinel Site are: multi-strategy, multi-setting interventions; building community capacity; and undertaking program evaluations and population monitoring. Three intervention projects have been supported that cover different age groups (preschool: 2–5 years, primary school: 5–12 years, secondary school: 13–17 years), but that have many characteristics in common including: community participation and ownership of the project; an intervention duration of at least 3 years; and full evaluations with impact (behaviours) and outcome measures (anthropometry) compared with regionally representative comparison populations. We recommend the Sentinel Site approach to others for successfully building evidence for childhood obesity prevention and stimulating action on reducing the epidemic. Language eng DOI 10.1093/heapro/dan025 Field of Research 111712 Health Promotion Socio Economic Objective 970111 Expanding Knowledge in the Medical and Health Sciences HERDC Research category C1 Refereed article in a scholarly journal HERDC collection year 2008 Copyright notice ©2008, Oxford University Press Free to Read? Yes Persistent URL http://hdl.handle.net/10536/DRO/DU:30017371 Document type: Journal Article Collections: Faculty of Health Public Health Research, Evaluation, and Policy Cluster Open Access Collection Related Links Link Description Link to full-text (open access)   connect to published version (restricted access) Go to link with your DU access privileges     Unless expressly stated otherwise, the copyright for items in DRO is owned by the author, with all rights reserved. Every reasonable effort has been made to ensure that permission has been obtained for items included in DRO. If you believe that your rights have been infringed by this repository, please contact drosupport@deakin.edu.au. Versions Version Filter Type Fri, 14 Aug 2009, 13:52:37 EST Mon, 16 Nov 2009, 15:52:04 EST Wed, 06 Jun 2012, 13:49:54 EST Wed, 06 Jun 2012, 13:50:54 EST Wed, 06 Jun 2012, 13:51:53 EST Mon, 16 Jun 2014, 11:47:14 EST Tue, 17 Jun 2014, 09:57:31 EST Mon, 19 Jan 2015, 10:50:16 EST Thu, 07 Nov 2019, 03:36:04 EST Mon, 12 Apr 2021, 02:36:35 EST Mon, 19 Apr 2021, 21:35:16 EST Filtered Full Citation counts:   Cited 34 times in TR Web of Science Cited 40 times in Scopus Search Google Scholar Access Statistics: 1365 Abstract Views, 3 File Downloads  -  Detailed Statistics Created: Fri, 14 Aug 2009, 13:52:36 EST

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