University of New South Wales - UNSW - Food and Nutrition Policy Studies Subject Guide

Food and Nutrition Policy Studies Subject Guide

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Australian

Australia's Food and Nutrition 1994 (AIHW)
	This extensive report describes the food and nutrition system in Australia and measures of food supply. Is an important resource for all concerned with food and nutrition in Australia and will improve the ability of policy and program decision makers to take into account sectoral and intersectoral effects.
Australia Food and Nutrition, Lester IH. The policy environment.
	Chapter presents an overview of Australia and its food and nutrition system. The specific issues it identifies are considered in detail in later chapters.
Healthy Weight Australia: a National Obesity Strategy
	The overall goal or aim of the strategy is to increase the proportion of the Australian population to maintain a healthy weight throughout their lives.
SIGNAL. Eat Well Australia. An agenda for action for public health nutrition 2000-2010. National Public Health Partnership 2001
	Eat Well Australia (EWA) is a vital resource to guide Australiaâ€™s investment in public health nutrition over the next decade. The guide is developed by the Strategic Inter-Governmental Nutrition Alliance (SIGNAL), the nutrition arm of the National Public Health Partnership.
SIGNAL. Eat Well Australia. A strategic framework for public health nutrition 2000-2010. National Public Health Partnership 2001
	Eat Well Australia (EWA) aims to improve the health of all Australians through better food and nutrition. This proposed national strategy has been developed by SIGNAL, the nutrition arm of the National Public Health Partnership, in recognition of the vital role food and nutrition plays in the health and wellbeing of all people.
NSW Health. Food security options paper: a planning framework and menu of options for policy and practice interventions.
	NSW Centre for Public Health Nutrition, Sydney, June 2003. A planning framework and menu of options for policy and practice interventions. This document is a guide to intervention options for reducing the inequities in health caused by inadequate, low quality or unreliable food intake. It describes policy and practice interventions for improving the diet and nutrition of disadvantaged groups.
Penrith Food project - (New South Wales) Goals and Achievments 1994-1997
	To increase and improve the supply of affordable, acceptable, nutritious and safe food available to residents and workers in the Penrith LGA, with particular concern for disadvantaged groups.
Policy Documents
	Australian Government Food Regulation Secretariat - A list of Policy Documents
Program Management guidelines for health promotion
	Designed to enhance quality management of health promotion programs. The Program Management Guidelines aim to help the reader control the unpredictable, and to maintain a sense of purpose and direction as a program is planned, implemented and developed.
	A valuable tool for planning, implementation and evaluation of public health nutrition policies both in Australia and internationally.
Victorian Food and Nutrition Policy 1995
	The goal of the Victorian Food and Nutrition Policy is to improve the health of all Victorians through better nutrition. The present Policy addresses the major nutrition and health issues facing Victorians in 1995.

International

Bangkok Charter for Health Promotion (Thailand)
	The Bangkok Charter identifies actions, commitments and actions required to address the determinants of health in a globalised world through health promotion.
Cornell Food and Nutrition Policy Program at Cornell University
	CFNPP), created in 1988 within the Division of Nutritional Sciences, conducts applied research and engages in technical cooperation and training on issues of poverty, human resource development, and food and nutrition policy in developing countries and in transition economies of Eastern Europe.
FAO/WHO. World Declaration and Plan of Action for Nutrition (Italy)
	International Conference on Nutrition (ICN), Rome, December 1992. European Economic Community at the International Conference on Nutrition (Rome, December 1992), declare their determination to eliminate hunger and to reduce all forms of malnutrition.
Rome Declaration on World Food Security in 1996 (Italy)
	Adopted by the World Food Summit at Rome, Italy, 13-17 November 1996. WFS are determined to make efforts to mobilize, and optimize the allocation and utilization of, technical and financial resources from all sources, including external debt relief for developing countries, to reinforce national actions to implement sustainable food security policies.
FAO/WHO. Final Report of the Conference (Italy)
	International Conference on Nutrition (ICN), Rome, December 1992. Report contains: PART I - PROCEEDINGS PART II - WORLD DECLARATION AND PLAN OF ACTION FOR NUTRITION PART III - PARTICIPATING COUNTRIES AND ORGANIZATIONS
FAO/WHO. Major issues for nutrition strategies (Italy)
	A summary of the International Conference on Nutrition (ICN), Rome, December 1992. This paper focuses on the conditions necessary for ensuring access to adequate and safe food by the household and in general leaves the other issues related to nutrition for consideration under other ICN theme papers.
Nutrition Policy Papers (United Nations)
	from 1985 to 1996 called State-of-the-Art Reviews
SPC, WHO. Development and implementation of intersectorial food and nutrition plans and policies.
	Details a workshop held in Suva, Fiji, 2004 with participants attending from 5 member countries: Cook Islands, Fiji Islands, Samoa, Tuvalu and Vanuatu. Further three to four participants per country attended, allowing a range of sectors to be represented including health, education, finance, planning and agriculture.
The Ottawa Charter (Canada)
	The first International Conference on Health Promotion, meeting in Ottawa this 21st day of November 1986, hereby presents this CHARTER for action to achieve Health for All by the year 2000 and beyond.
WHO. Global Database on National Nutrition Policies and Programmes
	The Global Database on National Nutrition Policies and Programmes was established in 1995 initially to monitor and evaluate the progress in implementing the World Declaration and Plan of Action for Nutrition.
WHO. Global Database on National Nutrition Policies and Programmes; summary of the Australian nutrition situation (Australia)
	Established in 1998 as the nutrition arm of the Australian Governments' National Public Health Partnership, the Strategic Inter-Governmental Nutrition Alliance (SIGNAL) has continued to provide strategic direction and coordinate action on public health nutrition issues, playing a major role in developing and implementing Eat Well Australia, 2000-2010.
WHO Regional Office for Europe - Nutrition Policy
	Food and nutrition policies are needed to improve diet and reduce noncommunicable diseases. Food safety has an important bearing on nutrition policy.
WHO 2003. Wilkinson R, Marmot M. Social determinants of health: the solid facts. 2nd edition.
	Non-exhaustive list of articles and publications regarding the social determinants of health. The contents of the page will change regularly.