Monday, May 20, 2024

2:20 PM - 3:20 PM

Ballroom B

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Details

Health systems and communities are experiencing a chronic disease induced crisis. Much of this burden could be reduced through the large-scale implementation of effective policies and programs to support healthy eating and physical activity. While many effective interventions exist, what is missing are evidence-based strategies to effectively implement them. Current processes to develop and test implementation strategies is insufficient to advance science, learning and provide timely guidance for action by government departments and services. As a result, many efforts to scale-up the implementation of behavioural nutrition and physical activity are likely to be ineffective and risk exacerbating inequities. ‘Learning Health Systems’ provide an opportunity to address some of these challenges. Learning Health Systems are organisations (e.g government departments or services) that routinely use data to develop, test and immediately apply knowledge to improve the impact of their services. This presentation will examine their potentially transformative role in generating and applying evidence to scale-up the implementation of nutrition and physical activity programs and improving the health and wellbeing of populations.

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Chair

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Speaker