Mental Health Care - Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
The Centre for Eating and Dieting Disorders (CEDD) is funded by the Mental Health and Drug & Alcohol Office, NSW Ministry for Health. It is an academic and service support centre based in Sydney, Australia resulting from a collaboration between The Boden Institute of Obesity, Nutrition, Exercise & Eating Disorders in the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Sydney and Sydney Local Health Network. The Centre has a number of key functions:-To promote awareness of eating disorders as serious mental illnesses, that require treatment and in many cases can be curedTo contribute to policy development for the treatment, prevention and cure of eating disordersTo improve access to eating disorder services in NSW and provide support to cliniciansTo conduct and foster research into the eating disorders, their aetiology, treatment and cureTo educate and train the health workforce in evidence based medicines and treatments for people with eating disordersTo support other organisations working for the betterment of those afflicted by these mental illnessesTo contribute to the development of prevention and early intervention policy and interventions to reduce the incidence, duration and burden of eating disordersTo collaborate and cross-fertilises ideas with experts in the fields of obesity, body image and other related disciplines to promote broad spectrum Public Health
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