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Prevention

Preventing disease and illness, and promoting healthy lifestyles, are the keys to keeping our community healthy and reducing the increasing costs associated with ill health.
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Three children on bikes
A book containing practical information parents can use to positively influence children’s eating and activity habits.

CSIRO's research is focused on the following:

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Nutrition, lifestyle and DNA
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The CSIRO Wellbeing Plan for Kids
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Food Bioactives for health
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Nutrition, lifestyle and DNA - CSIRO is researching foods, diets, our lifestyles and their interaction with our DNA to keep us healthier and fitter for
longer. Learn more>
The CSIRO Wellbeing Plan for Kids - A book for all families that contains practical information, based on research, for parents to use to positively influence children’s eating and activity habits. Learn more>
Food Bioactives for health - Bioactive molecules are components of food that possess biological activity in addition to their nutritional value. Learn more>
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Food Safety
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Bowel cancer and gut health
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Dementia and Alzheimer's disease
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Food Safety - Eating healthy and safe foods are fundamental activities that people enjoy in Australia and key to ongoing wellbeing. Learn more>
Bowel cancer and gut health - Our gut health is integral to our overall health and wellbeing and CSIRO research is focused on lowering the risk of developing bowel cancer. Learn more>
Dementia and Alzheimer's disease - CSIRO scientists have developed a new system to screen for compounds that can inhibit one of the processes that leads to Alzheimer’s disease. Learn more>
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Advances in medical imaging
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Environmental health
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Advances in medical imaging - Medical imaging is assisting with the earlier detection of a range of diseases including cardiovascular disease, stroke, cancers and Alzheimer’s disease. Learn more>
Environmental health - Understanding and improving urban environments is imperative for the health and long-term wellbeing of our
communities. Learn more>

Preventative health activities can reduce the burden of disease by avoiding the development or halting the progression of illness. We advance this through research focussed on early detection, intervention and reducing the further impacts of established disease.

CSIRO’s health prevention activities are broad ranging and include research in nutrition, substantiation of food claims, developing healthier foods and better understanding of how foods, diets and physical activity can improve health and wellbeing in adults and children.

Our research also incorporates:

  • behavioural studies to investigate the individual and environment factors that influence people’s decision making and behaviour in relation to health
  • investigating and designing functional foods that contain naturally occurring molecules with enhanced health benefits such as edible oils, resistant starches and fibre
  • understanding and modifying the risk factors for a range of chronic diseases, improving the accuracy and early detection of disease, and monitoring the impacts on the community.

CSIRO health research activities in prevention are principally through its Preventative Health Flagship. The long term vision of the Flagship is to improve the health and well-being of Australians and deliver savings in direct health costs through the prevention and early detection of disease.

 

 Second Level:
Prevention
Index of prevention related information:

Overviews

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News

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Events

 
  • Image of a human buccal cell showing cytoplasm, nucleus and gamma-H2AX indicative of DNA damage.
    QIC workshop

    This free two-day workshop/symposium will bring together international and national experts to provide a comprehensive, up-to-date overview of Quantitative Imaging Cytometry.

Science

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Business

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  • A photo showing a Sensory Panelist at the human interface of the Simultaneous Gustometer Olfactometer. She has her mouth around a small mouth piece that delivers taste componets while a straw that delivers aroma components points towards her nose. There are several boxes of electronics, hoses and a computer monitor on the desk and a large exhaust abover her head.
    Simultaneous Gustometer Olfactometer, for healthier food that tastes good

    CSIRO has developed the Simultaneous Gustometer Olfactometer to help food manufacturers develop healthier tasty foods and help researchers understand how tastes and odours work together, as we eat, to produce flavour. It delivers tastes and odours in a precise and timed manner.

  • Volunteers answer questions about what they eat, and why
    Our expertise in understanding food choices

    Consumers want trustworthy information about where foods come from, how they are produced, what they contain and what benefits they may have in the diet. CSIRO’s research investigates what kind of information is likely to influence consumer choices.

Multimedia

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People & Places

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Publications

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  • Image of the front cover of the book Make it Safe: A Guide to Food Safety.
    Make it Safe: A Guide to Food Safety

    Make It Safe: A Guide to Food Safety provides practical guidance on how to control food safety hazards, with a specific focus on controls suitable for implementation by small-scale businesses.

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    Make It Safe - Table of Contents

    Download the full table of contents covered in the book, Make It Safe: A Guide to Food Safety. (5 pages)

Resources

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Contact

Ms Alison Tuckfield
Executive Assistant
Preventative Health Flagship
Phone: 61 8 8303 8819 
Fax: 61 8 8305 0600