The Collaboration of Community-based Obesity Prevention Sites (CO-OPS Collaboration) has released new recommendations for establishing a childhood obesity monitoring system.
The recommendations are the result of a three-part study commissioned by CO-OPS to provide advice on the way forward to address Australia’s lack of a systematic method for consistently and promptly collecting and reporting childhood overweight and obesity prevalence data. The research was led by three academics from Deakin University with extensive experience in the area of childhood obesity; Dr Peter Kremer, Dr Andrea de Silva-Sanigorski (now at University of Melbourne) and Associate Professor Evie Leslie.
The final reports are available here.
Analysis of critical features for establishing a monitoring system for childhood obesity: Monitoring system design
Analysis of critical features for establishing a monitoring system for childhood obesity: Ethics assessment
Analysis of critical features for establishing a monitoring system for childhood obesity: Feedback systems