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Health Promoting Communities: Being Active Eating Well

The Department of Health and the Department of Planning and Community Development jointly funded six ‘Go for your life’ Health Promoting Communities: Being Active and Eating Well (HPC: BAEW) community-based obesity prevention projects from 2006–2010. Five Primary Care Partnerships (PCPs) and one Aboriginal community-controlled health organisation received funding to implement the projects.

The long-term program goal was to decrease the prevalence of overweight and obesity in Victoria. Priority action areas included:

healthy eating
physical activity
structural changes that support healthy eating and physical activity.

This initiative was aimed at scaling up community-based obesity prevention efforts in Victoria, with a focus on disadvantaged communities. A mixture of settings-based approaches and targeted interventions was used to maximise impact.

All projects achieved enhanced community capacity and achieved some positive impacts compared to the comparison groups. For more detailed information, refer to the final evaluation reports.

Community characteristics and target groups'

Evaluation

Process evaluation

Process evaluations (including some impacts) were carried out locally for each project.

Cardinia Shire Council/South-East Healthy Communities Partnership
Summary (327kb, pdf)	Full Report (8mb, pdf)
Kingston Bayside PCP
Summary (313kb, pdf)	Full Report (2.2mb, pdf)	Attachments (4mb, pdf)
Campaspe PCP
Summary (535kb, pdf)	Full Report Part 1 (pages 1-99) (3.2mb, pdf) Part 2 (pages 100-232) (10.7mb, pdf) Part 3 (pages 233 - 451) (6.3mb, pdf)
Westbay PCP
Summary (400kb, pdf)	Full Report (1.9mb, pdf)
Southern Grampians & Glenelg PCP
Summary (189kb, pdf)	Full Report (1.1mb, pdf)
Wathaurong Aboriginal Co-operative
Summary (137kb, pdf)	Full Report (1.9mb, pdf)

Impact and outcome evaluation
Deakin University conducted an overarching evaluation of the five PCP-based projects.

State-wide evaluation plan (819kb, pdf)

State-wide evaluation report (summary) (309kb, pdf)

Published evaluation design: Scaling up community-based obesity prevention in Australia: Background and evaluation design of the Health Promoting Communities: Being Active Eating Well initiative. De Silva-Sanigorski et al. BMC Public Health 2010, 10:65

Melbourne University evaluated the impacts of the Wathaurong project using culturally appropriate methods.

Wathaurong Aboriginal Co-operative evaluation plan (191kb, pdf)

Wathaurong Aboriginal Co-operative final evaluation report
Summary (114kb, pdf)	Full Report (421kb, pdf)

Acknowledgement

This information has been sourced from The Department of Health.