SCOPE childhood obesity project bridges policy/practice gap

Authors

Lydia A. Hearn, Edith Cowan UniversityFollow
Margaret R. Miller, Edith Cowan UniversityFollow

Document Type

Other

Publisher

Wiley

School

School of Medical and Health Sciences

Comments

Hearn, L. A., & Miller, M. R. (2013). SCOPE childhood obesity project bridges policy/practice gap. Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health, 37(3), 923. https://doi.org/10.1111/1753-6405.12050

Abstract

With more than 20% of preschool children and almost 50% of women of childbearing age in Australia either overweight or obese, there is mounting pressure on public health policy and primary care practitioners to work with parents to enhance healthy family behaviours.¹ In practice, however, a variety of system‐level barriers, attitudinal and behavioural barriers, and knowledge, skills and training barriers prevent effective engagement between parents, primary health care practitioners and other child care providers.

DOI

10.1111/1753-6405.12050