Dr Yvonne Anderson and Gregory Lynne – Taranaki
Tamariki Pakari Healthy Lifesyle Check app
Tamariki Pakari Child Health and Wellbeing Trust was set up to enable further clinical research in Taranaki into childhood obesity and enable greater reach and engagement across communities
Dr Yvonne Anderson, a paediatrician at Taranaki Base Hospital, has won a best doctoral thesis award for her work with the Trust and is now looking to take their acclaimed programme a step further by launching an app to improve child and adolescent obesity.
The Healthy Lifestyle Check application will replace paper-based questionnaires currently used by Healthy Lifestyle Coordinators, to provide a fast understanding of a child’s weight-related health indicators, physical activity, eating behaviour and dietary intake, and quality of life and wellbeing.
TSB Good Stuff grant funding enable app software development and website creation.