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Two programs—''Munch & Move'' and ''Live Life Well @ School'' (''LLW@S'')—were identified from pilot programs to be delivered at scale across NSW as part of the HCI. ''Munch & Move'' had a potential reach of more than 3,500 center-based early childhood services and more than 190,000 children aged 0–5 years. ''LLW@S'' had a potential reach of more than 2,400 primary schools with more than 675,000 students.
Two programs—''Munch & Move'' and ''Live Life Well @ School'' (''LLW@S'')—were identified from pilot programs to be delivered at scale across NSW as part of the HCI. ''Munch & Move'' had a potential reach of more than 3,500 center-based early childhood services and more than 190,000 children aged 0–5 years. ''LLW@S'' had a potential reach of more than 2,400 primary schools with more than 675,000 students.
Initial implementation of both ''Munch & Move'' and ''LLW@S'' involved training of educators and teachers to embed the promotion of healthy behaviors in their organizational policy and routine practice. To ensure the successful translation into routine practice, educators and teachers were supported by their local LHD through regular visits or phone calls, and they were monitored through a set of program adoption indicators referred to as "practices." These evidence based practices refer to organizational policies and practices related to nutrition, physical activity, and sedentary behavior (see Tables 1 and 2).<ref name="LockeridgeMunch15">{{cite book |title=''Munch & Move'': Evidence and Evaluation Summary |author=Lockeridge, A.; Innes-Hughes, C.; O'Hara, B.J. et al. |publisher=NSW Ministry of Health |year=2015 |pages=26 |isbn=9781760003029 |url=https://www.health.nsw.gov.au/heal/Publications/Munch-Move-Evaluation-Summary.pdf |accessdate=08 February 2018}}</ref><ref name="BravoLive16">{{cite book |title=''Live Life Well @ School'': Evidence and Evaluation Summary 2008-2015 |author=Bravo, A.; Innes-Hughes, C.; O'Hara, B.J. et al. |publisher=NSW Ministry of Health |year=2016 |pages=31 |isbn=99781760004750 |url=https://www.health.nsw.gov.au/heal/Publications/Munch-Move-Evaluation-Summary.pdf |accessdate=08 February 2018}}</ref>
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  | style="background-color:white; padding-left:10px; padding-right:10px;"|Healthy eating learning experiences at least twice per week
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  | style="background-color:white; padding-left:10px; padding-right:10px;" rowspan="4"|'''Daily physical activity'''
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  | style="background-color:white; padding-left:10px; padding-right:10px;"|Physical activity for at least 25% of opening hours (ages 1−5 years)
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  | style="background-color:white; padding-left:10px; padding-right:10px;"|Fundamental movement skills every day (ages 3−5 years)
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  | style="background-color:white; padding-left:10px; padding-right:10px;"|Appropriate use of small-screen recreation (ages 3–5 years)
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  | style="background-color:white; padding-left:10px; padding-right:10px;" rowspan="3"|'''Policies in place'''
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  | style="background-color:white; padding-left:10px; padding-right:10px;"|Written physical activity policy
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  | style="background-color:white; padding-left:10px; padding-right:10px;"|Written policy restricting small-screen recreation
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  | style="background-color:white; padding-left:10px; padding-right:10px;"|Nutrition and physical activity training for staff
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  | style="background-color:white; padding-left:10px; padding-right:10px;" colspan="2"|'''Table 2.''' ''Live Life Well @ School'' (''LLW@S'') practices
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  | style="background-color:white; padding-left:10px; padding-right:10px;" rowspan="2"|'''Curriculum'''
  | style="background-color:white; padding-left:10px; padding-right:10px;"|Healthy eating and physical activity learning experiences
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  | style="background-color:white; padding-left:10px; padding-right:10px;"|Personal development, health and physical education includes fundamental movement skills
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  | style="background-color:white; padding-left:10px; padding-right:10px;" rowspan="4"|'''Encouraging healthy eating and physical activity'''
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  | style="background-color:white; padding-left:10px; padding-right:10px;"|Physical activity during breaks
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  | style="background-color:white; padding-left:10px; padding-right:10px;"|Supportive environment for healthy eating
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  | style="background-color:white; padding-left:10px; padding-right:10px;"|School plans incorporate ''LLW@S'' strategies
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  | style="background-color:white; padding-left:10px; padding-right:10px;"|Annual monitoring and reporting
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Consistent with World Health Organization recommendations, a comprehensive HCI monitoring framework was developed to guide the review of program implementation in early childhood services and primary schools. This framework included HCI measures in the annual service agreements between the Ministry (the funder) and LHDs (the providers). Achievement against the measure was reviewed quarterly.
Contemporary and effective delivery of population-level health interventions requires innovative technology and fresh approaches to monitoring and reporting. Conte ''et al.''<ref name="ConteDynamics17">{{cite journal |title=Dynamics behind the scale up of evidence-based obesity prevention: protocol for a multi-site case study of an electronic implementation monitoring system in health promotion practice |journal=Implementation Science |author=Conte, K.P.; Groen, S.; Loblay, V. et al. |volume=12 |issue=1 |pages=146 |year=2017 |doi=10.1186/s13012-017-0686-5 |pmid=29208000 |pmc=PMC5718021}}</ref> described the lack of evidence about whether an e-monitoring system improved the implementation of evidence-based preventive programs. However, because performance measures were included in the LHD service agreements, a system was needed to support the implementation of the HCI at the local level, and the collection, recording, analysis, and reporting of this data at both local and state levels. To achieve this, an information technology (IT) system called the Population Health Information Management System (PHIMS) was developed to perform these functions for both LHD and Ministry staff.


==Acknowledgements==
==Acknowledgements==

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Full article title Codesign of the Population Health Information Management System to measure reach and practice change of childhood obesity programs
Journal Public Health Research & Practice
Author(s) Green, Amanda M.; Innes-Hughes, Christine; Rissel, Chris; Mitchell, Jo; Milat, Andrew J.;
Williams, Mandy; Persson, Lina; Thackway, Sarah; Lewis, Nicola; Wiggers, John
Author affiliation(s) NSW Ministry of Health, University of Sydney, South Western Sydney Local Health District,
Hunter New England Local Health District, University of Newcastle
Primary contact Email: Amanda dot Green at health dot nsw dot gov dot au
Year published 2018
Volume and issue 28(3)
Page(s) e2831822
DOI 10.17061/phrp2831822
ISSN 2204-2091
Distribution license Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International
Website http://www.phrp.com.au/issues/september-2018-volume-28-issue-3/
Download http://www.phrp.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/PHRP2831822.pdf (PDF)

Abstract

Introduction: Childhood obesity prevalence is an issue of international public health concern, and governments have a significant role to play in its reduction. The Healthy Children Initiative (HCI) has been delivered in New South Wales (NSW), Australia, since 2011 to support implementation of childhood obesity prevention programs at scale. Consequently, a system to support local implementation and data collection, analysis, and reporting at local and state levels was necessary. The Population Health Information Management System (PHIMS) was developed to meet this need.

Design and development: A collaborative and iterative process was applied to the design and development of the system. The process comprised identifying technical requirements, building system infrastructure, delivering training, deploying the system, and implementing quality measures.

Use of PHIMS: Implementation of PHIMS resulted in rapid data retrieval and reporting against agreed performance measures for the HCI. The system has 150 users who account for the monitoring and reporting of more than 6000 HCI intervention sites (early childhood services and primary schools).

Lessons learned: Developing and implementing PHIMS presented a number of complexities including: applying an information technology (IT) development methodology to a traditional health promotion setting; data access and confidentiality issues; and managing system development and deployment to intended timelines and budget. PHIMS was successfully codesigned as a flexible, scalable, and sustainable IT solution that supports state-wide HCI program implementation, monitoring, and reporting.

Introduction

Childhood overweight and obesity is of international public health concern, and governments have a significant role to play in addressing the issue.[1] In New South Wales (NSW), Australia, the prevalence of childhood overweight and obesity remains high, at 21 percent.[2]

From 2011 to 2014, the Australian Government implemented the National Partnership Agreement on Preventive Health, which provided a historic increase in funding to prevent chronic disease. In NSW, this coordinated prevention effort for children was delivered through the Healthy Children Initiative (HCI) by the NSW Ministry of Health (the Ministry). The HCI involves the implementation of primary and secondary obesity prevention programs across the state in settings attended by children, for example, early childhood services and primary schools.[3]

A well-established health promotion workforce existed in NSW that had designed and implemented programs in these settings and had the potential to achieve state-wide population-level reach and outcomes. However, a significant scaling up of delivery and monitoring of these programs was required to effect population-level change. To facilitate this, enhanced funding was provided to all 15 NSW Government Local Health District (LHD) health promotion services to support local implementation of these programs.[4]

Two programs—Munch & Move and Live Life Well @ School (LLW@S)—were identified from pilot programs to be delivered at scale across NSW as part of the HCI. Munch & Move had a potential reach of more than 3,500 center-based early childhood services and more than 190,000 children aged 0–5 years. LLW@S had a potential reach of more than 2,400 primary schools with more than 675,000 students.

Initial implementation of both Munch & Move and LLW@S involved training of educators and teachers to embed the promotion of healthy behaviors in their organizational policy and routine practice. To ensure the successful translation into routine practice, educators and teachers were supported by their local LHD through regular visits or phone calls, and they were monitored through a set of program adoption indicators referred to as "practices." These evidence based practices refer to organizational policies and practices related to nutrition, physical activity, and sedentary behavior (see Tables 1 and 2).[5][6]

Table 1. Munch & Move practices
Encouraging healthy eating Lunchboxes monitored daily
Fruit and vegetables at least once per day
Only healthy snacks on the menu
Water or age-appropriate drinks every day
Healthy eating learning experiences at least twice per week
Daily physical activity Tummy time for babies every day
Physical activity for at least 25% of opening hours (ages 1−5 years)
Fundamental movement skills every day (ages 3−5 years)
Appropriate use of small-screen recreation (ages 3–5 years)
Policies in place Written nutrition policy
Written physical activity policy
Written policy restricting small-screen recreation
Professional development and monitoring Health information provided to families
Nutrition and physical activity training for staff
Annual monitoring and reporting
Table 2. Live Life Well @ School (LLW@S) practices
Curriculum Healthy eating and physical activity learning experiences
Personal development, health and physical education includes fundamental movement skills
Encouraging healthy eating and physical activity Fruit, vegetables and water breaks
Physical activity during breaks
Supportive environment for healthy eating
Communication with families
Professional development and monitoring Professional development of staff
School team supports LLW@S
School plans incorporate LLW@S strategies
Annual monitoring and reporting

Consistent with World Health Organization recommendations, a comprehensive HCI monitoring framework was developed to guide the review of program implementation in early childhood services and primary schools. This framework included HCI measures in the annual service agreements between the Ministry (the funder) and LHDs (the providers). Achievement against the measure was reviewed quarterly.

Contemporary and effective delivery of population-level health interventions requires innovative technology and fresh approaches to monitoring and reporting. Conte et al.[7] described the lack of evidence about whether an e-monitoring system improved the implementation of evidence-based preventive programs. However, because performance measures were included in the LHD service agreements, a system was needed to support the implementation of the HCI at the local level, and the collection, recording, analysis, and reporting of this data at both local and state levels. To achieve this, an information technology (IT) system called the Population Health Information Management System (PHIMS) was developed to perform these functions for both LHD and Ministry staff.

Acknowledgements

We acknowledge the contributions of Liz King, Neil Orr, Louise Farrell, Bev Lloyd, Andy Bravo, Masela Draper, Deni Fukunishi, Andy Lui, Rita Lagaluga, Evan Freeman, Elena Ouspenskaia, Claudine Lyons, Kym Buffett, Rhonda Matthews, Project Advisory Board Members, Steering Committee Members, Transition Group and Reference Group Members and the Directors and staff of Local Health District Health Promotion Services across NSW.

This paper was developed as part of a program of research on monitoring health promotion practice within The Australian Prevention Partnership Centre. It was funded through the National Health and Medical Research Council Partnership Centre Grants Scheme (ID GNT 9100001) with the Australian Government Department of Health, the NSW Ministry of Health, ACT Health and the HCF Research Foundation.

Author contributions

AG and CI-H drafted the manuscript. CR, JM, AM, MW, LP, ST, NL and JW reviewed and contributed to editing the manuscript. All authors read, revised and approved the final manuscript. All authors contributed to the development and/or implementation of PHIMS.

Competing interests

None declared.

Peer review and provenance

Externally peer reviewed, commissioned.

References

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  2. "Overweight and obesity in children aged 5–16 years, NSW 2007 to 2017". HealthStats NSW. NSW Government. 8 May 2018. http://www.healthstats.nsw.gov.au/Indicator/beh_bmikid_cat. Retrieved 10 July 2018. 
  3. Innes-Hughes, C.; Bravo, A. Buffett, K. et al. (2017). NSW Healthy Children Initiative: The first five years July 2011 – June 2016. NSW Ministry of Health. pp. 43. ISBN 9781760007263. https://www.health.nsw.gov.au/heal/Publications/HCI-report.pdf. Retrieved 08 February 2018. 
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  5. Lockeridge, A.; Innes-Hughes, C.; O'Hara, B.J. et al. (2015). Munch & Move: Evidence and Evaluation Summary. NSW Ministry of Health. pp. 26. ISBN 9781760003029. https://www.health.nsw.gov.au/heal/Publications/Munch-Move-Evaluation-Summary.pdf. Retrieved 08 February 2018. 
  6. Bravo, A.; Innes-Hughes, C.; O'Hara, B.J. et al. (2016). Live Life Well @ School: Evidence and Evaluation Summary 2008-2015. NSW Ministry of Health. pp. 31. ISBN 99781760004750. https://www.health.nsw.gov.au/heal/Publications/Munch-Move-Evaluation-Summary.pdf. Retrieved 08 February 2018. 
  7. Conte, K.P.; Groen, S.; Loblay, V. et al. (2017). "Dynamics behind the scale up of evidence-based obesity prevention: protocol for a multi-site case study of an electronic implementation monitoring system in health promotion practice". Implementation Science 12 (1): 146. doi:10.1186/s13012-017-0686-5. PMC PMC5718021. PMID 29208000. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5718021. 

Notes

This presentation is faithful to the original, with only a few minor changes to presentation, spelling, and grammar. We also added PMCID and DOI when they were missing from the original reference.