MEDI363 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Grey Literature, Food Policy, Social Marketing

• School: UOW
• Department: Medical and Health Sciences
• Course: MEDI363
• Professor: Karen Charlton

Document Summary

Identify the range of tools/strategies that can be employed to determine best practice interventions for a particular issue. Understand how to identify nutrition promotion interventions from the literature. Be aware of case examples of current/recent australian and interventional nutrition promotion programs for a range of issues. Be able to critique available interventions in terms of their potential effectiveness and limitations. Building intensity: focusing resources on a single target group/setting/outcome, needs to be sustainable, weak, less intense interventions less likely to be successful. Building breadth: efforts directed to a range of target groups/settings/outcomes, usually involves a range of strategies (but could also be a single strategy) Important as single strategies may not achieve sufficient change. Program implementation: primary aim: to ensure the program is implemented as close to the original plan as possible. Implement strategies (one or multiple: traditionally, interventions focused on individual change approaches (education, communication) 2015**: how to make food industry changes all encompassing, smart policies for obesity prevention.