Situating care: Addressing obesity in disadvantaged communities

该项目旨在推动迫切需要的转变，从自上而下的干预措施，将肥胖作为个人的饮食和锻炼问题，转向由家庭为家庭提供护理的集体解决方案，在地方和社区层面增强社会变革的能力。与澳大利亚领先的社会创新设计者合作，这一人类学项目有望产生关于弱势社区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。这些进展可能会对肥胖干预以及更公平的健康政策和实践在澳大利亚和国际上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.