NUT1112 Nutrition and Public Health PDF

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Lecturer-Stephanie Godrich...

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NUT1112 Nutrition and Public Health Lec 8 Systems Thinking and the Importance and Relevance of Frameworks for Successful Interventions

Learning outcomes 

Describe the principles of effective public health nutrition interventions.

The triple A cycle 

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Very basic PHN (public health nutrition) framework: o

Centre circle- driving force

o

Outer circle 

Assessment of the situation

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Analysis of the causes of the problem

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Action based on analysis and availability

Key components to capacity building o

Resourcing/ intelligence

o

partnerships/organisational development/project management quality/ workforce development/community development

o

Capacity sustainable public health outcomes

A bi-cycle framework for PHN practice

1

Capacity building 

Capacity building taps into existing abilities of individuals, communities, organisations or systems to increase involvement, decision-making and ownership of issues o

Individual capacity

o

Community capacity

o

Organisational capacity

o

System capacity

Individuals and community capacity building 

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Individual capacity building o

Impacts individual skill and knowledge

o

Strategies: 

Trust development

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Skill building

Community capacity building o

Partnerships with communities and organisations

o

Powerful collaborative action greater than individual agency

Organisational and system capacity building 

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Organisational capacity building o

Organisations have leadership, technical roles and make Human Resource contributions

o

Strategies 

Strengthen internal management

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Monitor how they allocate their resources

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Build partnerships

System capacity building o

Complex relationships

o

Strategies 

Policy development

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Inter-organisational consultation and advocacy

Public health nutrition intervention management practice (PHNIMP) cycle

2

3

Systems thinking 

First, it is a perspective, or a way of seeing things that ‘sharpens one’s awareness’ of the whole, and the elements that make up the whole and the way the elements all inter-relate with each other to cause the system to behave in the way that it does

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For this reason, system-thinking is also occasionally described as ‘big picture’ thinking

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At its core, systems thinking is an enterprise aimed at seeing how things are connected to each other within some notion of a whole entity

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System Innovation Theory, Complex Adaptive Systems: o

Transitioning communities towards a new way of working that will more effectively address the complex issue

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Key features identified as effective for addressing complex ‘wicked’ social policy issues such as enhancing food security: o

Addressing complex problems

o

Place-based approach

o

Transition approach

o

Action by diverse people/groups

o

Collaborative creation and involving stakeholders in decisions

o

Government as enabler of change

Food security and determinants 

“Food security exists when all people at all times have physical, social and economic access to safe and nutritious food to meet their dietary needs and food preferences for an active and healthy life”

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Food availability o

Availability

o

Price

o

Promotion (sale)

o

Quality

o

Location of outlets

o

Variety in outlets

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Food access o

Social support

o

Household finances

o

Transport to outlets

o

Distance to outlets

o

Mobility

Food utilisation o

Nutrition knowledge and cooking skills

o

Preferences

o

Storage facilitates

o

Cooking facilitates

o

Time to purchase and prepare food

Objectives 1. To identify the initiatives supporting healthy food availability, access and use in the South West region, and how these initiatives function as a system 2. To co-design more effective ways of ensuring healthy food availability, access and use of all South West Western Australians

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