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

Complexity in Community Interventions

Boyd Swinburn, Deakin University, VIC

Boyd took a solutions-focussed approach to obesity prevention and discussed different mapping and planning processes (ANGELO, Gary Sacks, problem tree and solution tree) to simplify obesogenic environments, plan interventions and develop policies at upstream, midstream and downstream (medical) levels. Acknowledged complexity. Need to focus on solutions rather than problems, clarity of questions and interventions, scanning tools, processes for prioritization, logic models for evaluation analysis. Challenges – partnership relationships and evaluation design.

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