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Building consensus and guiding action:               A ‘what if’ tool for tackling wicked problems Modelling childhood overweight and obesity interventions Presented by Nick Roberts and Vincy Li World Congress on Public Health 2017

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Page 1: consensus and guiding action: A if’ tool for wicked problems€¦ · Vincy Li Mark Heffernan Geoff McDonnell Other abstract co‐authors: Eloise O’Donnell Sonia Wutzke Bev Lloyd

Building consensus and guiding action:               A ‘what if’ tool for tackling wicked problemsModelling childhood overweight and obesity interventions

Presented by Nick Roberts and Vincy Li World Congress on Public Health 2017

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Childhood overweight and obesity (COO)

• Childhood overweight and obesity is a key issue – Increasing prevalence – Lasting effects on individuals, society and economy  

• Around 1 in 4 children are currently overweight or obese in Australia

• In 2015, the NSW Premier unveiled 12 Premier’s Priorities. One was to reduce the prevalence of overweight and obesity in children aged 5–16 years by 5% over 10 years in NSW

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COO is challenging to address• Childhood overweight and obesity is a complex issue

– A large number of multi‐level risk factors contribute to the problem – Numerous potential points of intervention

• There is a broad range of intervention options but little is known about combined effect of different interventions

• OUR MISSION! To develop a model to test how we might address childhood overweight and obesity and achieve the Premier’s target

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• Using computer models as simplified representations of real world

• Capturing population and behavioural dynamics, feedback loops, effects of interventions over time and interaction of risk factors

• Long history of use in engineering, maths, climate science

depressionWeight gain

Example of feedback loop

Example SD model (Sterman 2001)

What is System Dynamics (SD) modelling?

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• Provides a framework for mapping and quantifying the complex problem of childhood overweight and obesity

Why did we use SD modelling?

• Allows us to test (in a low cost and risk free way) the likely impacts and costs of different options for intervening before implementing our ‘solutions’ in the real world

• Can inform how best to invest limited resources to achieve the health targets.

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• Initial model developed Jul‐Dec 2016 • Participatory method – experts in 

policy, academia, service delivery, and modelling contributed to development over three workshops.

Our methods – how we used SD modelling

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• During the three workshops:– Collaborative development of model structure, 

mapping factors driving childhood overweight and obesity

– Prioritisation of interventions for model and mapping where and how they have effect

– Validated mechanisms by which interventions have effect 

– Participants tested the model and provided feedback

Our methods – How we used SD modelling

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Various data sources were used in the model

Childhood overweight & obesity model

Systematic review / meta analysis evidence

Other peer reviewed literature

Outcomes of existing interventions

O&O prevalence data, population projections

Expert opinion, consensus

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The model in 60 seconds!

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• Theoretically, it appears to be possible to reduce the prevalence of childhood overweight and obesity in NSW by 5% over 10 years (i.e. end of 2025/early 2026)

• It will take the full suite of modelled interventions (individual and settings‐based programs, environmental changes, policies, social marketing campaign)  to achieve the target within this timeframe

• The earliest we might see even a small (1%) reduction is 2020/2021

Key insights from the model

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• A tool that allows us to navigate through complex problems and test different scenarios to provide insights

• A platform for drawing together disparate sources of data and evidence to inform decision making

• A way of making clear assumptions that are often implicit, allowing us to think through and question them, and identifying gaps in the existing evidence base

What we have built

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• Building costs into the model and conducting sensitivity analyses 

• Equity considerations: socioeconomic status, urban / rural, culturally and linguistically diverse groups

Potential next steps

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Thank you Core model building group Jo‐An Atkinson

Nick Roberts

Vincy Li

Mark Heffernan

Geoff McDonnell

Other abstract co‐authors: Eloise O’Donnell

Sonia Wutzke

Bev Lloyd

Jo Mitchell

Our expert model building participants, from: 

NSW Ministry of Health

NSW Health

NSW Department of Premier and Cabinet 

NSW Department of Education and Communities

NSW Treasury

NSW Office of Preventive Health

TAPPC

The Sax Institute

University of Sydney 

Queensland University of Technology

University of Wollongong 

George Institute for Global Health

Deakin University

VIC Department of Health and Human Services 

University of Newcastle

ACT Health

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