James Gillespie's research while affiliated with The University of Sydney and other places
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Publications (2)
Background
The international increase in the prevalence of childhood obesity has hastened in recent decades. This rise has coincided with the emergence of comorbidities in childhood—such as type II diabetes, non-alcoholic fatty liver disease, metabolic syndrome, sleep apnoea and hypertension—formerly only described in adulthood. This phenomenon sug...
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Background:
Early childhood (from conception to five years) is a key life stage for interventions to prevent obesity. In the Australian Federation, policy responsibility for obesity prevention sits across all levels of government and several intergovernmental institutions, rendering a complicated policy space. There is a gap in our understanding o...
Citations
... Within the NPAPH context the Ministry developed and adopted the Healthy Eating and Active Living (HEAL) Strategy 2013-2018(NSW Ministry of Health 2013. The HEAL Strategy was identified as the key 'framework for action' to retain childhood obesity reduction as a NSW Government priority despite the loss of NPAPH funding in 2014 (Innes-Hughes et al. 2019), another external event (Esdaile et al. 2022a) (see supportive information file (SIF) 2.5, HEAL Strategy timeline). It was approved by the NSW Cabinet as a whole-of-government obesity prevention strategy and aimed to improve healthy lifestyle behaviours (eating and movement) in the short to medium term, with the ultimate long-term goal of preventing overweight and obesity across the population via four strategic directions (SD) outlined in Fig. 1 (see SIF2.1) (NSW Ministry of Health 2013). ...
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... This approach has political and institutional contextual restraints. Firstly, the Commonwealth Government during the study period had no plans to address food policies solely within their jurisdiction, such as restrictions on advertising on television (Esdaile et al. 2022b). Secondly, the regulation of food in Australia is developed through an intergovernmental forum with veto rights. ...
