Mid-point evaluation of Prevention of Obesity in Children and Young People: NSW Government Action Plan 2003-2007
| Field | Value | Language |
| dc.contributor.author | Turnour, Caroline | |
| dc.contributor.author | King, Lesley | |
| dc.contributor.author | Wise, Marilyn | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2017-06-05 | |
| dc.date.available | 2017-06-05 | |
| dc.date.issued | 2006-06-01 | |
| dc.identifier.citation | Turnour C, King L, Wise M (2006). Mid-point evaluation of ‘Prevention of Obesity in Children and Young People: NSW Government Action Plan 2003-2007’. Sydney: NSW Centre for Overweight and Obesity. | en_AU |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/2123/16806 | |
| dc.description | Following the 2002 NSW Obesity Summit, the NSW Government launched the Prevention of Obesity in Children and Young People – NSW Government Action Plan 2003-2007 (GAP). The GAP1 identified 34 actions that NSW Health, NSW Department of Education and Training, NSW Department of Community Services, and NSW Roads and Traffic Authority agreed to implement, to expand their contributions to the prevention of obesity in children and young people. Many of the 34 actions fitted these agencies’ core business, while some involved an extension of existing roles. The GAP was designed to be simple and achievable, enabling it to be implemented within existing resources in the short-term, or with small increases in resources in the medium term. As a consequence, 88 per cent of the actions to which agencies committed have been completed or are on track. The NSW Government’s focus on childhood obesity in 2002 precipitated the formation of the National Obesity Taskforce and the development of plans and summits in other states/territories. Since 2002, there has also been significant policy work on obesity prevention at the international level, with major reports being produced by the International Obesity Task Force (IOTF), World Health Organisation (WHO), and comprehensive plans in the US and UK. All these reports have stressed the need for urgent action to turn around the escalating rates of childhood obesity. In this context a mid-point evaluation of the implementation of the GAP was instigated in October 2005, to ensure that the momentum for change created by the Summit and Action Plan was being maintained. The evaluation was designed to contribute to the ongoing implementation of the GAP by: • identifying the extent to which specified actions had been implemented, or were progressing ‘on track’; • identifying other achievements and approaches that have emerged in association with the implementation of the GAP; • identifying changes in the political, community and organisational contexts that might influence implementation opportunities and actions; • making recommendations to support the ongoing implementation and final evaluation of the plan. The NSW Centre for Overweight and Obesity was given responsibility by NSW Health for conducting the mid-point evaluation of implementation. The mid-point evaluation involved analysis of documentation and structured interviews with key stakeholders. A total of 12 interviews, with representatives from 6 government agencies and 3 additional agencies, were conducted. As well as reporting on progress in implementing GAP, the evaluation sought to assess the significance of the actions undertaken and their potential contribution to the prevention of childhood obesity. The evaluation used the WHO Stepwise Framework to assess the implementation of the actions according to their fit with existing policy, infrastructure and resources. Actions were classified as core, expanded and desirable: • Core implementation actions - interventions that are feasible to implement with existing resources; • Expanded implementation actions - interventions that are possible to implement with a realistically projected increase in, or reallocation of, resources in the medium term; • Desirable implementation actions - evidence-based interventions which are beyond the reach of existing resources (World Health Organisation 2005). Seventeen actions were identified as core actions, and seventeen actions as expanded actions. The GAP contained no actions that could be classified as ‘desirable’ under the criteria of the WHO framework. The fact that the GAP included a mix of core and expanded actions, only, is understandable in the early years of a response, when there was limited evidence of effective interventions. | en_AU |
| dc.publisher | NSW Centre for Overweight and Obesity, NSW Health | en_AU |
| dc.title | Mid-point evaluation of Prevention of Obesity in Children and Young People: NSW Government Action Plan 2003-2007 | en_AU |
| dc.type | Report, Technical | en_AU |
| dc.contributor.department | NSW Centre for Overweight and Obesity, School of Public Health | en_AU |
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