Bridging the Gap: translating childhood obesity prevention policy into clinical practice

医疗保健提供者在识别肥胖风险儿童方面处于有利地位。这项研究旨在了解卫生服务机构目前如何将儿童肥胖预防纳入临床实践，确定将肥胖预防政策纳入这些服务的机会，并确定如何实施实际、系统和可行的变化。最终，这项研究将有助于降低澳大利亚儿童肥胖率的努力。

Healthcare providers are well placed to identify children at risk of obesity. This research aims to understand how health services are currently incorporating childhood obesity prevention into clinical practice, identify opportunities to incorporate obesity prevention policy within these services and determine how practical, systematic and feasible changes can be implemented. Ultimately this research will contribute to the efforts to decrease the rates of childhood obesity in Australia.