Public Health & Policy Australian & New Zealand Obesity Society 2014 Annual Scientific Meeting

Stream: Public Health & Policy

• Why New York City’s Attempt to Ban Soda Fizzled - Joel Berg
• Socioeconomic inequalities in obesity: Why do they arise, and what can we do about them? - Kylie Ball
• Overweight and obesity in remote Indigenous Australia: Opportunity in a context of social inequity - Julie Brimblecombe
• The effect of a sugar sweetened beverage tax among different socioeconomic groups : A systematic review - Kathryn Backholer
• The double burden of malnutrition: a longitudinal, nationally representative study of Indonesian children - Cut N Rachmi

Stream: Public Health & Policy 

• Intuitive eating: is a shift away from dieting the answer to weight management? - Caroline Horwath
• Using incentives to stimulate behavioural change - Simone Pettigrew
• Avatars to assist health behaviour change - Leisl Capper
• Jamie’s Ministry of Food reduces take-away/fast food expenditure - Anna Flego
• Text message to promote breastfeeding and obesity-protective eating behaviours  in young children:  12 and 24 months BMI results - Mu Li

Stream: Public Health and Policy

• Providing additional guidance and support to parents about sleep, diet and physical activity from birth to 2 years of age: the Prevention of Overweight in Infancy study - Rachael Taylor
• What does the EPOCH (early prevention of obesity in childhood) prospective meta-analysis tell us about early life obesity prevention? - Lisa Askie
• Policy makers and early life obesity prevention. What are the issues? - Chris Rissel
• Is the banning of unhealthy foods at school canteens associated with principal influence or school policy? - Kathryn Reilly
• Are obese children really less fit? Influences of body composition and physical activity on cardiorespiratory fitness in obese and healthy-weight children. - Margarita D Tsiros

• Contributions of local-area fast-food availability and area-based weight and dietary norms to 10-year change in cardiometabolic risk - Suzanne J Carroll
• Systematic review of incidental physical activity community interventions: results and contribution to government strategy - Chad Foulkes
• The role of dietary and physical activity behaviours in educational differences in weight gain among Australian adults – the Melbourne Collaborative Cohort Study - Emma Gearon
• Socio-economic differences in the prevalence and treatment of severe obesity in Australian adults, 2012 - Catherine Keating
• Examining the meal patterns of Australian adults between 1995 and 2011 - Sarah A McNaughton
• A Qualitative investigation of knowledge, beliefs and attitudes regarding sugar-sweetened beverages, including responses to potential regulatory measures aimed at curbing obesity - Caroline L Miller
• Changes to industry self-regulation of unhealthy food advertising to children in Australia: what the processed food and beverage industries hoped you wouldn’t notice in 2014. - Caroline Mills
• Evaluation of the LiveLighter “Sugary Drinks” mass media campaign - Belinda Morley
• Sleep duration and risk of overweight and obesity among Victorian Primary School children - Bridget Morrissey
• Food references and marketing in popular magazines for children and adolescents in New Zealand: A content analysis - Stefanie Vandevijvere

The CO-OPS Collaboration, funded by the Federal Government, supports practitioners delivering obesity prevention initiatives in Australia. This interactive workshop will explore obesity prevention strategies from the ground up and the top down using real-life case studies, best practice principles and evidence for change. It will engage the audience to challenge where, how and why evidence, practice and policy intersect and debate appropriate future pathways.