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Kids in the Kitchen’ impact evaluation: engaging primary school students in preparing fruit and vegetables for their own consumption
(CSIRO, 2015)
Children’s fruit and vegetable (FV) consumption in Australia is below levels recommended for optimal growth, development and health.
Methods: ‘Kids in the Kitchen’ is a classroom-based program that engages students in ...
Human Rights Casualties from the “War on Obesity”: Why Focusing on Body Weight Is Inconsistent with a Human Rights Approach to Health
(Taylor & Francis, 2012)
Health promotion is a relatively new health science discipline focused on creating health and wellbeing at individual, group and population levels through health and health related policies and programs. Addressing inequities ...
Health at Every Size: a Weight-neutral Approach for Empowerment, Resilience and Peace
(Horizon Research Publishing, 2014)
Abstract Obesity is high on the agenda of governments and health and welfare agencies worldwide. The placement of body weight at the centre of discourse about health is referred to as the weight-centred health paradigm ...
Perceptions of credentialling for health promotion practitioners in Australia
(CSIRO, 2003)
: To investigate the self-reported attitudes of health promotion practitioners towards the concept of credentialling of health promotion practitioners in Australia and the requirements perceived to be important if ...
Health Promotion: A Critical Salutogenic Science
(Horizon Research Publishing, 2014)
Health promotion is a relatively new health science discipline focused on creating health and wellbeing at individual, group and population levels through health and health related policies and programs. Addressing inequities ...
The impact on teachers of designing and implementing a Health at Every Size curriculum unit
(Taylor & Francis, 2010)
with growing concern over the ‘obesity epidemic’ in children, schools have become the front line of defence in the ‘war against obesity’. However there is a growing body of evidence of unintended harm associated with ...
We Are All Ballooning: Multimedia Critical Discourse Analysis of Measure Up and Swap It, Don’t Stop It Social Marketing Campaigns
(QUT Creative Industries, 2015)
Social marketing campaigns are the most visible strategy in the ‘war on obesity’. Recent critiques highlight the potentially damaging aspects of such campaigns, primarily focusing on the language used. Critical discourse ...
Finding new ways to practise critically: applying a critical reflection model with Australian health promotion practitioners
(Taylor & Francis, 2017)
Greater support is required in health promotion for practitioners to adopt critical approaches to their practice. Despite recognition of the role that critical reflection can play in supporting critical practice, ...
A missing ethical competency? A review of critical reflection in health promotion
(CSIRO, 2015)
There is increasing emphasis in the health promotion literature on the ethical imperative for the profession to move towards critical practice. A key challenge for health promotion is that critical practice appears both ...
Acculturation, out-group positivity and eating disorders symptoms among Emirati women
(NCBI "PubMed", 2016)
Western acculturation has been implicated in the development of eating disorders among populations liv- ing outside Europe and North America. This study explored the relationship between Western acculturation, in-group/ ...