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Over-consumption of high-energy foods and a lack of physical activity are the main behavioural risk factors for people to develop obesity. These behaviours are influenced by a range of individual-level factors which are nested within contexts that contain influencing characteristics further upstream. In this paper,...

Community and Public Health West Coast developed this resource for parents of toddlers and young children. “This booklet is designed to help parents with all things nutrition for their little one, to set them up for healthy habits throughout their life”.

Abstract Background Multi-level, longer-term obesity prevention interventions that focus on inequalities are scarce. Fun ‘n healthy in Moreland! aimed to improve child adiposity, school policies and environments, parent engagement, health behaviours and child wellbeing. Methods All children from primary schools in an inner urban, culturally diverse and...

The aim of this study was to  systematically review and quantify findings on the built environmental and how this correlates to older adults’ physical activity(PA) and to investigate differences by type of PA and environmental attribute measurement. One hundred articles from peer-reviewed and grey literature examining built environmental attributes...