Situating care: Addressing obesity in disadvantaged communities

该项目的目的是推动迫切需要的转变，从自上而下的干预措施，重点是肥胖作为个人的饮食和运动问题，集体解决家庭对家庭的照顾，在地方，社区一级赋予社会变革。与澳大利亚社会创新的领先设计师合作，这个人类学项目预计将产生有关弱势社区的护理和食品实践的新知识，并为更广泛的适应构建新的数字，政策和计划框架。这些进展可能会对澳大利亚和国际上的肥胖干预措施以及更公平的健康政策和实践的发展产生重大影响。

The project aims to drive an urgently needed shift from top-down interventions that focus on obesity as an individual problem of diets and exercise, to collective solutions of care generated by families for families, empowering social change at a local, community level. In collaboration with Australia’s leading designers of social innovation, this anthropology project expects to generate new knowledge about care and food practices in disadvantaged communities, and to construct new digital, policy, and program frameworks for broader adaptation. The advances are likely to have a strong bearing on how obesity interventions, and more equitable health policy and practice, evolve in Australia and internationally.