Reducing the gap right from the start: Translating effective approaches to prevent child obesity in disadvantaged families into primary health care policy and routine practice.

Funding Activity

Website
http://purl.org/au-research/grants/nhmrc/1089415

Funding Status
Closed

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Funded Activity Summary

The aim of this fellowship is to identify effective primary health care (PHC) based approaches to prevent obesity amongst children from disadvantaged families and understand the factors influencing the uptake of such approaches into routine PHC policy and practice. The findings will inform practice and policy decisions about the implementation of child obesity prevention programs within the Australian PHC system.

Funded Activity Details

Start Date: 01-01-2015

End Date: 01-01-2018

Funding Scheme: Early Career Fellowships

Funding Amount: $108,376.00

Funder: National Health and Medical Research Council

Research Topics

ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)

Health Promotion

ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)

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Other Keywords

community child health | health promotion | overweight/obesity | primary care | social disadvantage

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