Promoting Healthy Weight
Evidence Base
This page contains a list of key studies, surveys, publications and reports forming the evidence base on overweight and obesity.
Listed below are the key studies, surveys, publications and reports forming the evidence base on overweight and obesity that the Department refers to in the course of its work and which much of the information in this site is based on. Where possible direct links to these publications have been provided.
Information contained in this website is also predominantly sourced from the following documents.
- Acting on Australia's weight 1997. National Health and Medical Research Council.
- Australia’s Health 2006. Australian Institute of Health and Welfare
- Australian Health Trends 2001. Australian Institute of Health and Welfare
- Australia's Health 2002. Australian Institute of Health and Welfare
- Chronic diseases and associated risk factors in Australia 2001. 2002. Australian Institute of Health and Welfare.
- Diabesity and associated disorders in Australia 2000: the Accelerating epidemic. 2000. International Diabetes Institute.
- Heart stroke and vascular diseases: Australian facts 2001. 2001. Australian Institute of Health and Welfare.
- National Health Survey: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Results, Australia 2001. 2002. Australian Bureau of Statistics.
- 2001 National Health Survey: Summary of results. 2002. Australian Bureau of Statistics.
- 2004-05 National Health Survey: Summary of results 2004-05. Australian Bureau of Statistics
- Obesity: Preventing and managing the global epidemic. 2000. World Health Organisation.
- Global Strategy on Diet, Physical Activity and Health 2004. World Health Organsation
- Occasional paper: overweight and obesity, Indigenous Australians. 1994. Australian Bureau of Statistics.
- The burden of disease and injury in Australia. 1999. Mathers C and Vos T.
- The Surgeon General's call to action to prevent and decrease overweight and obesity. 2001. U.S Department of Health and Human Services.
- The World Health Report 2002: Reducing risks, promoting health life. 2002. World Health Organization.
Australian Institute of Health and Welfare bulletins on overweight and obesity
Under a Memorandum of Understanding with the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare, the Australian Government Department of Health and Ageing funded the development of these bulletins:- A growing problem: trends and patterns in overweight and obesity among adults in Australia, 1980 to 2001
- Are all Australians gaining weight? Differentials in overweight and obesity among adults, 1989-90 to 2001
- Obesity trends in older Australians
- Health, wellbeing and body weight: Characteristics of overweight and obesity in Australia, 2001
