BACKGROUND Poor diet is the leading preventable risk factor contributing to the burden of disease in Australia. A range of cost-effective, comprehensive population-focussed strategies are available to address these dietary-related diseases. However, despite evidence of their effectiveness, minimal federal resources are directed to this area. To better understand the limited public health nutrit...

The present paper considers the need to move from a 'health education' approach to dietary health to an approach that focuses on food and nutrition policies at the population level, and especially those policies that avoid widening the inequalities in health between different socio-economic groups and those policies that promote healthy diets among children. Recent moves at the international le...

A decade has passed since the Food Advisory Committee (FAC) of the Irish Department of Health advocated the establishment of a nutrition policy for Ireland (Food Advisory Committee, 1979). The FAC noted that such a policy should provide for ‘. . . a national strategy for improving the nutritional status of the population . . . based on thc coordinated planning and development of sectoral activi...

OBJECTIVES To describe how the Nutrition Society developed public health nutrition as a profession between 1992 and 1997, and to analyse the influences propelling on this professionalization. DESIGN Qualitative case study. SETTING Britain. RESULTS The Nutrition Society of Britain consulted with various stakeholders (such as dietitians, researchers, professionals and practitioners and educ...

BACKGROUND Historically, implementing nutrition policy has confronted persistent obstacles, with many of these obstacles arising from political economy sources. While there has been increased global policy attention to improving nutrition in recent years, the difficulty of translating this policy momentum into results remains. DISCUSSION We present key political economy themes emanating from ...

The present paper addresses the emergence and development of Nordic food and nutrition policies, with some reference to the types of nutrition policies characteristic of other North European countries. Nutrition programmes aimed at dietary change have a long history of public responsibility in several Nordic and North European countries. The extent of involvement, the orientation and (indicatio...

UNLABELLED Nutrition transition necessitates low and middle-income countries (LAMICs) to scale up their efforts in addressing the burdens of undernutrition and overweight/obesity. Magnitudes of undernutrition and overweight are high in LAMICs, but no study has reviewed the existence of nutrition policies to address it. No evidence is also available on the effect of nutrition policies and govern...

The study objectives were to map the different stages of the nutrition transition for each department within Peru, and to determine the nutrition policy needs for each geographic area based on their current stage in the nutrition transition. Results show that most of the country is suffering from a double-burden of malnutrition, with high rates of stunting among children less than 5 years of ag...