Open AccessEngaging adolescents and young adults in a longitudinal health study: experience from the Top End cohort
Author(s) -
Davison Belinda,
Cunningham Teresa,
Singh Gurmeet
Publication year - 2011
Publication title -
australian and new zealand journal of public health
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.946
H-Index - 76
eISSN - 1753-6405
pISSN - 1326-0200
DOI - 10.1111/j.1753-6405.2010.00666.x
Subject(s) - longitudinal study , cohort , young adult , cohort study , medicine , adolescent health , psychology , gerontology , environmental health , demography , developmental psychology , nursing , sociology , pathology
AUSTRALIAN AND NEW ZEALAND JOURNAL OF PUBLIC HEALTH 2011 vol. 35 no. 1 © 2011 The Authors. ANZJPH © 2011 Public Health Association of Australia despite this being a strategic priority area) highlight a dilemma for public health research in this area. Obesity intervention research, even when identified as a priority, appears to remain a poor cousin to other obesity research, although without the denominator for ‘obesity-related research’ this is hard to clarify. It is unclear how and if the review process differs for grants identified under strategic priority areas. For example, does the identification of strategic research areas provide an opportunity to positively discriminate nominated areas or does it merely seek to attract additional proposals in such areas? These data further highlight the need for granting bodies and researchers to develop a closer relationship so that researchers are better able to understand the processes underlying the system. By working more closely it may be possible to achieve the overall aim of both granting bodies and researchers, to promote the development of a strong evidence base to improve the health and wellbeing of the population.