Nutrition

Clinicians Hub resources

Evidence-based tools, guidelines and resources for health professionals and patients to support the prevention, early intervention, and management of chronic diseases.

BRAVE Framework

For adults

This tool assists with initiating sensitive conversations about weight and health behaviours with adults.

For children and families

This tool assists with initiating sensitive conversations about growth, weight and health behaviours with children and families.

Guidelines

Australian dietary guidelines: Providing the scientific evidence

The Australian dietary guidelines provide advice about the amount and kinds of foods we need to eat for health and wellbeing, based on scientific evidence. The recommendations are based on scientific evidence, developed after looking at good quality research. (PDF, 1.9MB)

Guidelines

Queensland clinical guidelines: Obesity and pregnancy

A guideline that provides information and evidence around obesity and pregnancy care, including post-bariatric surgery and preconception planning. (PDF, 615KB)

Guidelines

Australian pregnancy care guidelines

The guidelines aim to improve the health and experiences of pregnant women and their babies by providing evidence-based recommendations to support high quality, safe, consistent care during pregnancy.

Academic literature

Managing undernutrition in the elderly: Prevention is better than cure

A paper that provides guidelines for screening for undernutrition in general practice and suggests strategies to address undernutrition in older patients.

eLearning

Preconception health promotion in primary care

A preconception eLearning module designed to improve capacity of nurses, maternal and child health nurses and midwives working in primary health care settings. It provides concise and practical information to promote preconception health in their practice.

Factsheets

Planning for pregnancy

A pamphlet to support women planning a pregnancy to make positive changes to their preconception health including areas of nutrition, smoking and alcohol cessation. (PDF, 1.1MB)

Academic literature

Preconception care

With a focus on women, this paper discusses the evidence for preconception care, available guidelines and strategies to increase primary care access.

Guidelines

Maternal and child nutrition

The Maternal and Child Nutrition Guidelines developed by NICE cover the nutrition of women who are planning to become pregnant, mothers and other carers of children aged under 5 and their children. It aims to address disparities between the nutrition of low-income and other disadvantaged groups compared to the general population. (PDF, 459KB)

Factsheets

Managing morning sickness

This resource provides strategies to assist with management of morning sickness during pregnancy. (PDF, 709KB)

Guidelines

Healthy lifestyle for mothers: Pre-conception

Clinical guidelines that provide healthy lifestyle advice during the pre-conception period.

Guidelines

Pre-pregnancy counselling

Clinical guidelines that provide health professionals with advice on the counselling of women prior to pregnancy. (PDF, 2.7MB)

Guidelines

Management of eating disorders for people with higher weight: clinical practice guideline

The aim of this guideline is to synthesise the current best practice approaches to the management of eating disorders in people with higher weight and make evidence-based clinical practice recommendations.

Our programs

Health behaviour change programs for your patients

Explore referral pathways to support prevention, early intervention and management of chronic diseases.

10,000 Steps

10,000 Steps is an Australian physical activity program that uses step tracking technology to encourage everyday movement. Delivered digitally via app, it supports individuals, workplaces, and community groups with personalised goal setting, progress monitoring, and social challenges to build sustainable active habits.

My health for life

My health for life is a Queensland Government-funded chronic disease prevention program offering free health coaching to adults at risk of type 2 diabetes, heart disease, and stroke. Through six sessions in flexible formats, participants receive personalised guidance on lifestyle behaviours proven to reduce disease risk.

Podsquad

Podsquad is a free app-based health program designed for children aged 5–12 and their families. Using behavioural science and play based learning, it helps families build lasting healthy habits across nutrition, physical activity, and sleep through engaging, reward-driven activities both online and in everyday life.

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Clinicians Hub resources

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For children and families

Australian dietary guidelines: Providing the scientific evidence