Road Map

Research Road Map for CHeNECE

As seen in Figure 1, the Research Roadmap for CHeNECE was based on the premise that health and nutrition is a right for everyone. To achieve better health and nutritional status, we need to understand the determinants of health and nutrition at the beginning. Without thorough understanding of the determinant our research would be scattered and less likely to be adopted by policy makers and society as a whole. Therefore, at the beginning of the roadmap CHeNECE would focus on identifying and analyzing the immediate causes of health and nutrition problem, social determinant, local wisdom and positive defiance behavior as well as potential local ethnic food that support health and wellbeing.

In the second phase the research group would use the determinants to study methods of nutrition education and counseling that culturally appropriate for the target. This also involve scaling up positive defiance and study on the web or application-based nutrition education and counseling. Each of the health & nutrition education and counseling will be evaluated and the effective strategies will be made as a model for the use in larger setting by local health office. In the empowerment phase, the research group will focus on capacity building to equipped health workers and personnel on the ground to be able to conduct health & nutrition education and counseling by themselves. Studies on the promotion and advocacy of worked positive deviance as well as beneficial ethnic foods will also be conducted. The last phase of the five-year roadmap of CHeNECE will focus on advocacy study to analyze the current policy and environmental existence that hinder or promote healthy lifestyles.