- Title
- Child Health Ecological Surveillance System (CHESS) for childhood obesity: a feasibility study
- Creator
- Plotnikoff, R. C.; Lightfoot, P.; McFall, S.; Spinola, C.; Johnson, S. T.; Prodaniuk, T.; Predy, G.; Tremblay, M. S.; Svenson, L.
- Relation
- Chronic Diseases in Canada Vol. 30, Issue 3, p. 95-106
- Relation
- http://www.phac-aspc.gc.ca/publicat/cdic-mcbc/30-3/ar_04-eng.php
- Publisher
- Public Health Agency of Canada
- Resource Type
- journal article
- Date
- 2010
- Description
- Objective: To assess the feasibility of employing an ecologically guided childhood obesity relevant surveillance system. Methods: Cross-sectional qualitative and quantitative data were collected from 31 organizational representatives across 28 unique organizations and/or departments from three purposively sampled communities in the Capital Health Region in Alberta, Canada. Results: All the organizational representatives surveyed reported awareness of childhood obesity and 36% reported participation in child obesity initiatives. Data to support a surveillance system are available but not in a suitable format, and privacy legislation present significant barriers. Interest in developing and sustaining an ecologically based surveillance system was low (18%). Conclusion: Due to the heterogeneity of available data and limited vision for the development and implementation of a surveillance system, the application of an ecologically based surveillance system relevant to childhood obesity may be constrained. Broad-based awareness of childhood obesity by a wide range of organizations could assist in establishing an effective coalition to address this issue over the long term by supporting the establishment of a surveillance system.
- Subject
- ecological surveillance system; child health; obesity; Alberta
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/921687
- Identifier
- uon:9370
- Identifier
- ISSN:0228-8699
- Language
- eng
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