Nutrition, Physical Activity, & Obesity “Assessing Prevalence and Trends in Obesity examines the approaches to data collection, analysis, and interpretation that have been used in recent reports on obesity prevalence and trends at the national, state, and local level, particularly among U.S. children, adolescents, and young adults. This report offers a framework for assessing studies on trends in obesity, principally among children and young adults, for policy making and program planning purposes, and recommends ways decision makers and others can move forward in assessing and interpreting reports on obesity trends.” Source: National Academies Press “The SHAKE Package has been designed to assist Member States with the development, implementation and monitoring of salt reduction strategies to enable them to achieve a reduction in population salt intake. The SHAKE package outlines the policies and interventions which have been effective in reducing population salt intake, provides evidence of the efficacy of the recommended interventions, and includes a toolkit containing resources to assist Members States to implement the interventions.” Source: WHO Child, Youth, & Maternal Health “This report describes a rapid review of recently published evidence on the cost effectiveness of interventions to improve oral health in children aged 0-5 years.” Source: Public Health England “Patient feedback is an important tool for tracking the experience of those who use NHS services and, through this, the quality of care they receive. It also plays a key role in identifying problem areas and shaping service improvements. Maternity services are using a variety of feedback mechanisms, in addition to national tools, to help them understand women’s experience of maternity services.” Source: King’s Fund “The Department for Child Protection and Family Support has developed the Building Safe and Strong Families: Earlier Intervention and Family Support Strategy in partnership with the community services sector to enable the service system to be more responsive and effective for the most vulnerable families in Western Australia.” Source: Department for Child Protection and Family Support (WA) “Fathers and co-parents play important roles in children’s lives. Who are today’s dads? is a Centre for Longitudinal Research project related to the multidisciplinary, longitudinal study Growing Up in New Zealand.” Source: University of Auckland
“This short report details the difference social value can make in health and care commissioning, and shares learning for other commissioning authorities to make the most of social value.” Source: Social Enterprise UK Reducing Inequalities “Indigenous Insights II provides a selection of stories which shares some of the struggles and achievements amongst six people who were willing to courageously share their own kōrero or the kōrero of their whānau member to provide hope to others.” Source: Te Rau Matatini “For Yawuru people, mabu liyan is at the heart of what it is to have and to know a good life. Using mabu liyan as the foundation, the Yawuru Wellbeing Project has sought to understand wellbeing in the context of Yawuru culture, the historical and contemporary challenges faced by Yawuru people and the strengths and capabilities of Yawuru. This report outlines the development of Yawuru wellbeing indicators from the ground up, working with the Yawuru in Broome. In doing so, the report’s research findings prioritise the voices and inputs of Yawuru women and men in the conception and measurement of wellbeing.” Source: Curtin University “During discussions with clinic and management staff, barriers and enablers to implementing a new screening protocol using HbA1c testing were determined. The project also conducted a clinical systems and software/data quality needs assessment at participating sites, documenting strategies to improve diabetes programs and monitoring short term changes resulting from the audit.” Source: Australian Primary Health Care Research Institute “In February 2016, the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine held a workshop in which speakers shared strategies for individuals, organizations, and communities to advance racial and health equity. Participants discussed increasing awareness about the role of historical contexts and dominant narratives in interpreting data and information about different racial and ethnic groups, framing messages for different social and political outcomes, and readying people to institutionalize practices, policies, and partnerships that advance racial and health equity. This publication serves as a factual summary of the presentations and discussions from the workshop.” Source: National Academies Press Primary Care