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Croakey highlights HealthyLaws and HealthyViews research
The recommendations of the HealthyLaws jury featured in a recent Croakey article (March 21st) by SA PHAA President, Kate Kameniar. The article set out to provide “A public health briefing for the new Health Minister” following the Liberal Party win in the recent state elections. kate highlighted the recommendations as follows: “Recommendations from a South […]
Papers examining legal aspects of obesity prevention
Two new papers examining legal aspects of the use of regulation and law in obesity prevention have been published by members of the HealthyLaws team. Lead by Prof. Elizabeth Handsley, Flinders University, the papers examine aspects of Constitutional law: Lau, Jacqueline, Handsley, Elizabeth and Reynolds, Christopher. 1917. Obesity prevention laws and the Australian Constitution. Journal […]
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Citizens’ Jury paper cited in Editorial in International Journal
Our paper describing the citizens’ jury has been cited in an editorial in the International Journal of Obesity. This is a highly cited journal from the Nature group with an impact factor of 5.5. This demonstrates the global reach of the HealthyLaws project. The Citizens’ Jury paper (Street et al, 2017) can be found on […]
Media Release: Citizens’ jury wants government action on child obesity
Citizens’ jury wants government action on child obesity, Media Release from the University of Adelaide, Monday, 23 May 2016, https://www.adelaide.edu.au/news/news85042.html
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“How Sweet It Is” radio broadcast
Dr Jackie Street talked to Radio Adelaide about the 2015 South Australian Citizens’ Jury which was asked what laws, if any, should be have in Australia to prevent obesity in children. The podcast can be found here: https://radio.adelaide.edu.au/how-sweet-it-is/
Regulating obesity: An analysis of Australian legislative measures
We are delighted to provide for interested readers a publication summarizing the findings from the Honours Thesis of Lauren Eckermann (nee Clarke) which describes current Austrlian State and National laws, proposed and enacted, which do, or have the potential to, operate on the determinants of childhood obesity to reduce the prevalence of obesity in children. […]
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Research team member wins best oral presentation prize
Lucy Farrell, a doctoral candidate working in the HealthyLaws research team recently won best oral presentation at the State Population Health Conference in Adelaide. Her presentation was entitled “It’s a form of forced education”: Understandings of preventive obesity regulations across differing socio-economic landscapes. A paper based on this work has been submitted for publication.
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Population Health Congress 2015
Dr Dylan Coleman and Dr Jackie Street presented work from the HealthyViews project at the Population Health Congress in Hobart September 6-9, 2015. The two talks were as follows: Street JM, Coleman D, Abdulla C, Hanson L, Motlik J. HealthyViews: Aboriginal community perspectives on what governments can do to help children eat healthy and be […]
HealthyLaws Citizens’ Jury
In April, the HealthyLaws team conducted a 2.5 day citizens’ jury with a diverse group of South Australian citizens. The jury was asked “What laws, if any, should we have in Australia to address childhood obesity?”. They interacted with a range of experts including nutritionists, lawyers, ethicists, a health economist and experts presenting ‘industry’ and […]
HealthyViews – an Aboriginal community forum
In February 2015, the HealthyViews research team including Dr Jackie Street and Dr Dylan Coleman conducted a deliberative community forum in Port Lincoln. With the assistance of local Aboriginal community organisations, the community forum was recruited to reflect the diverse experience and perspectives of the Port Lincoln community. The participants were provided with information in […]
