Community and policy based obesity prevention interventions: What is needed to achieve sustainable change?

Brisbane Convention and Exhibition Centre, July 10 2008

Expertise in obesity prevention community and policy-based interventions and evaluations is growing but how can we improve what we are already doing? The challenge is to build on the shared learnings, accommodate the inherent complexities and respond to ongoing shifts in the environments in which we are operating.

This one-day symposium explored the challenges and discussed solutions in community and policy-based obesity prevention interventions and economic evaluations drawing on case studies of existing interventions being conducted by the presenters. Future directions in community and policy-based interventions were explored, particularly the development of economic models and systems-based approaches.