CO-CREATE – Confronting Obesity: Co-creating policy with youth
CO-CREATE aims to prevent overweight and obesity in adolescents by providing knowledge and infrastructure on policies to support making the healthiest choices the preferred ones. The UiB team will develop a system dynamics model to assess the potential impacts of policy options.
About the research project
CO-CREATE aims to prevent overweight and obesity in adolescents by providing knowledge and infrastructure on policies to support making the healthiest choices the preferred ones. Adolescents are included in all aspects of the project, rooting the perspective of the key stakeholders themselves into project activities.
Contributions of System Dynamics Group, UiB
The main work of the UiB team is to develop a system dynamics model to assess the potential impacts of selected evidence-based and co-created policy options for obesity prevention, including the socioeconomic distribution of any such impact.
People
Project manager
Norwegian Institute of Public Health Project Coordinator
Staff involved from System Dynamics
Birgit Kopainsky Professor
Anaely Aguiar Former PhD Candidate