Individual research recommendation details

Recommendation ID

PH42/2

Question

What factors are necessary for an effective and cost effective community-wide approach to obesity prevention?

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In particular:
- How can learning from systemic approaches to other complex problems be applied to obesity prevention?
- How does the local context affect local engagement, adherence and effectiveness? This includes local population characteristics (for example, age, ethnicity or deprivation levels). It also includes funding arrangements and features of the local environment (such as transport links, access to green space or food outlets).What components are needed to build and sustain successful local community partnerships? This includes how to identify and get local people and professionals involved; the relative benefits of voluntary versus imposed partnerships; and best practice in forming and sustaining partnerships.
- At what point is partnership working no longer cost effective?
- How cost effective and practical is it to extend and expand existing obesity prevention programmes to support a whole community, in terms of:
- geographic coverage
- variety of contexts
- number of participants
- return on investment?
How can strategic approaches to obesity be sustained in terms of:
- funding
- partnerships
- volunteer involvement
- leadership continuity
- 'champion' participation?
- How can change best be achieved using a community development approach?

Source guidance details

Comes from guidance

Obesity: working with local communities

Number

PH42

Date issued

November 2012

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