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Melanie Lum

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Articles 27
Citations 148
Followers 0
Related Specialties
Public Health
Environmental Health
Top 10 Co-Authors
Alice Grady
Sze Lin Yoong
Luke Wolfenden
Nicole Pearson
Jannah Jones
Courtney Barnes
Jacklyn Jackson
Sam McCrabb
Serene Yoong
Cassandra Lane
Published In
Int J Environ Res Public Health
Health Promot J Austr
Prev Med Rep
Child Obes
Public Health Nutr
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Recent Articles
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Adapting the Nutrition and Physical Activity Self-Assessment: A Cross-Country Case Study of Improving Early Childhood Health Environments in the United States, Australia, and the United Kingdom
Smith F, Kipping R, Yoong S, Hannam K, Langford R, Barnes C, et al.
Child Obes . 2025 Mar; PMID: 40067748
Child overweight and obesity is a critical global health issue with substantial individual and societal impacts necessitating early intervention to establish healthy habits. Health promoting early childhood education (ECE) settings...
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A cross-sectional study assessing barriers and facilitators to the sustainability of physical activity and nutrition interventions in early childhood education and care settings
Imad N, Hall A, Nathan N, Shoesmith A, Pearson N, Lum M, et al.
Int J Behav Nutr Phys Act . 2025 Jan; 22(1):2. PMID: 39754137
Background: Effective evidence-based physical activity and nutrition interventions to prevent overweight and obesity and support healthy child development need to be sustained within Early Childhood Education and Care (ECEC) services....
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Examining Changes in Implementation of Priority Healthy Eating and Physical Activity Practices, and Related Barriers, Over Time in Australian Early Childhood Education and Care Services: A Repeated Cross-Sectional Study
Anderson A, Hinwood M, Wolfenden L, Romiti M, Grady A, Oldmeadow C, et al.
Child Obes . 2024 Dec; PMID: 39630566
Promoting healthy eating and physical activity in early childhood education and care (ECEC) is recommended within guidelines and supported by health promotion programs; however, implementation is suboptimal. Evidence suggests implementation...
4.
The impact of early childhood education and care-based interventions on child physical activity, anthropometrics, fundamental movement skills, cognitive functioning, and social-emotional wellbeing: A systematic review and meta-analysis
Grady A, Lorch R, Giles L, Lamont H, Anderson A, Pearson N, et al.
Obes Rev . 2024 Nov; 26(2):e13852. PMID: 39511821
This review assessed the effectiveness of ECEC-based interventions to improve child physical activity, and intervention impact on child weight-based anthropometrics, fundamental movement skills (FMS), cognitive functioning, and social-emotional wellbeing. Adverse...
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Assessing the implementation of healthy eating and physical activity policies and practices in Early Childhood Education and Care in New South Wales, Australia: A cross-sectional study
Renda A, Reilly K, Yoong S, Lum M, Lecathelinais C, Hodder R, et al.
Health Promot J Austr . 2024 Aug; 36(2):e917. PMID: 39187294
Issue Addressed: Australian children are not meeting the recommended physical activity (PA) and healthy eating (HE) guidelines. Health behaviour practices implemented in community settings such as early education services can...
6.
Interventions in the workplace to reduce risk factors for noncommunicable diseases: an umbrella review of systematic reviews of effectiveness
Turon H, Bezzina A, Lamont H, Barnes C, Lum M, Hodder R, et al.
J Occup Health . 2024 Aug; 66(1). PMID: 39096275
Background: Workplaces are an important setting to deliver programs to reduce risk factors for noncommunicable diseases (NCDs). To help decision makers understand the most current and relevant evidence regarding effectiveness...
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Integrated Measure of PRogram Element SuStainability in Childcare Settings (IMPRESS-C): development and psychometric evaluation of a measure of sustainability determinants in the early childhood education and care setting
Shoesmith A, Nathan N, Lum M, Yoong S, Nolan E, Wolfenden L, et al.
Implement Sci . 2024 Jun; 19(1):41. PMID: 38902763
Background: There is a need for valid and reliable measures of determinants of sustainability of public health interventions in early childhood education and care (ECEC) settings. This study aimed to...
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Factors associated with child and adolescent electronic nicotine and non-nicotine delivery systems use: A scoping review
Barnes C, McCrabb S, Bialek C, Turon H, Dray J, Duffy M, et al.
Prev Med . 2024 Feb; 181:107895. PMID: 38354861
Objectives: To identify, characterise and broadly synthesise factors associated with child and adolescent electronic nicotine delivery systems (ENDS) and/or electronic non-nicotine delivery systems (ENNDS) ever-use and/or current use. Methods: Four...
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Assessing the scalability of evidence-based healthy eating and physical activity interventions in early childhood education and care: A cross-sectional study of end-user perspectives
Grady A, Jackson J, Wolfenden L, Lum M, Milat A, Bauman A, et al.
Aust N Z J Public Health . 2024 Jan; 48(1):100122. PMID: 38198903
Objectives: To describe early childhood education and care (ECEC) services: i) perceptions regarding the scalability of healthy eating and physical activity interventions; and ii) associations between scalability and service characteristics....
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Assessing the scalability of healthy eating interventions within the early childhood education and care setting: secondary analysis of a Cochrane systematic review
Grady A, Jackson J, Wolfenden L, Lum M, Yoong S
Public Health Nutr . 2023 Nov; 26(12):3211-3229. PMID: 37990443
Objective: Early childhood education and care (ECEC) is a recommended setting for the delivery of health eating interventions 'at scale' (i.e. to large numbers of childcare services) to improve child...