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Title Date Type Author Files ‘Let’s Talk Sugar’ – early childhood resource
The Inner East Primary Care Partnership (IEPCP) developed a resource in consultation with Maternal Child Health (MCH) Nurses across the Inner and Outer East of Melbourne. A public health communications framework known as values-based messaging (VBM), was used to guide the content for this resource. VBM aims to engage people around values that resonate, as opposed to trying to persuade with just facts and or data, in order to motivate behaviour change. This includes a focus on the ‘system’ that is contributing to poor health.
The Obesity Policy Coalition (OPC) launched the ‘kids are sweet enough’ campaign aimed to protect the youngest consumers by lobbying for the government to set higher standards for the composition, labeling and promotion of infant and toddler foods. The “Let’s Talk Sugar” resource also targets the food ‘system’ that can lead to poor health, by raising awareness of sugars that are added or not easily recognised, in the production of infant and toddler foods.
Early childhood is an ideal period to shape healthy food preferences and dietary habits to prevent the development of chronic disease during childhood and across the lifespan.
Children should have the fundamental right to thrive in school and beyond, and the energy to play and learn because of the healthy eating experiences they have had in early life.
IEPCP would like to thank the MCH Nurses at City of Boroondara, Manningham Council and City of Whitehorse for participating in the pilot roll out and continuing this collaborative journey together.
06/04/2022 Document Inner East Primary Care Partnership A Case for Change
Gathering the evidence for healthy food and drink initiatives in Melbourne’s inner east.
05/01/2017 Report Inner East Primary Care Partnership A Case for Change: Boroondara
Gathering the evidence for healthy food and drink initiatives:Boroondara
05/01/2017 Report Inner East Primary Care Partnership A Case for Change: Manningham
Gathering the evidence for healthy food and drink initiatives: Manningham
05/01/2017 Report Inner East Primary Care Partnership A Case for Change: Monash
Gathering the evidence for healthy food and drink initiatives: Monash
05/01/2017 Report Inner East Primary Care Partnership A Case for Change: Whitehorse
Gathering the evidence for healthy food and drink initiatives: Whitehorse
05/01/2017 Resource Inner East Primary Care Partnership Catchment Area Assessment of the Food Environment
Summary of the catchment area assessment for developing a coordinated and targeted food access strategy in the Inner East Region of Melbourne.
05/01/2017 Document Inner East Primary Care Partnership Charter and Roadmap for PreventionEAST.Lab
08/05/2020 Document Health Futures Australia From Farm to Fork
Investigating the food system to improve food security in the Eastern Metropolitan Region of Victoria: Project Report 2015
05/01/2017 Report Inner East Primary Care Partnership IEPCP 2019 Case Study Obesity Prevention
19/11/2019 Document Inner East Primary Care Partnership Obesity Prevention Platform for Melbourne’s Eastern Region
The Inner East Primary Care Partnership (IEPCP) and Outer East Primary Care Partnership (OEPCP), with Victorian Department of Health and Human Services funding contracted Health Futures Australia (HFA) to develop a regional Prevention Platform through an Innovation Lab that unites and aligns local leaders in the East, which incubates innovation and builds capability for transformational system change.
21/09/2020 Document Swinburne University submission to the Senate Select Committee into the Obesity Epidemic in Australia
Endorsed by Women’s Health Victoria and Health at Every Size Australia
10/09/2018 Report Swinburne University of Technology The Well Healthy Eating & Active Living portal
Understand the theory and context behind healthy eating and active living, learn about the evidence base, local resources, add your own project, access regional data to support planning
10/06/2021 Website IEPCP/OEPCP Using Systems Thinking to Prevent Obesity in EMR Melbourne
08/05/2020 Document Deakin University Global Obesity Centre