Knowledge Gap and Challenge to address obesity epidemic

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Knowledge Gap and Challenge to address obesity
epidemic

• Thaksaphon Thamarangsi
• International Health Policy Program

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SWOT Analysis
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Self assessment
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Strength of available knowledge
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Who is who?

• Knowledge generators
• Institutional
• National Health Foundation
• Medical schools
• Faculty of Public Health
• Institute of Nutrition, Mahidol University
• Technocrats in Department of Health, Ministry of
  PH
• Faculty of Pharmacy, Chulalongkorn University
• (IHPP)
• Individuals
• Academics
• Health professional
• Post grad students
• Knowledge managers
• Thai Health Promotion Foundation
• Sweet Enough Network
• Department of Health, Ministry of Public Health
• Supporters
• Thai Health Promotion Foundation

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Approaches to obesity research

• Nutrition
• Consumer protection
• Medical (clinical)
• Public Health

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Policy process issues

• Analysis of policy
• success/failure factors
• Stakeholder and their roles, capacity
• Enhancing policy effectiveness
• Promoting local-initiated commitment.
• Strengthening policy implementation
• Setting up and strengthening Coordinating body
  for social movement
• Knowledge collaborating centre
• Explore the feasibility of innovative policy
  mechanisms
• Strengthening domestic policy from international
  movements
• Knowing stakeholders/ stakeholder analysis
• Industry including strategy used
• Effectiveness and integrity of negotiation process

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Knowledge areas in need

• Policy process issues
• Intervention-specific
• General area

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Policy intervention-specific areas

• Healthy alternatives
• Policy dealing with infant and young child
• Snack advertising
• Self regulation analysis and synthesis of
  domestic and international experience
• Physical availability control of unhealthy foods

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General issues

• Economic impact, i.e. social cost
• Burden assessment
• Mapping of available interventions in the like of
  VICHEALTH Model (cost-effectiveness comparison)
• Economic crisis/ food crisis and obesity
• Review of International experience
• Social attitude on obesity
• Self care competency

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Comparing some selective potential research
topics
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Challenges

• Capacity building in long term
• Effective information sharing
• Internal
• External
• Effective research policy nexus
• Developing policy monitoring and evaluation
• Equipping civil society

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