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Formulating policy activities to promote healthy and sustainable diets

Lawrence, Mark; Wingrove, Kate; James, Sarah; Candy, Seona; Friel, Sharon

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Objective To develop a policy formulation tool for strategically informing food and nutrition policy activities to promote healthy and sustainable diets (HSD). Design A policy formulation tool consisting of two complementary components was developed. First, a conceptual framework of the environment-public health nutrition relationship was constructed to characterise and conceptualise the food system problem. Second, an 'Orders of Food Systems Change' schema drawing on systems dynamics thinking...[Show more]

dc.contributor.authorLawrence, Mark
dc.contributor.authorWingrove, Kate
dc.contributor.authorJames, Sarah
dc.contributor.authorCandy, Seona
dc.contributor.authorFriel, Sharon
dc.date.accessioned2015-12-07T22:45:04Z
dc.date.available2015-12-07T22:45:04Z
dc.identifier.issn1368-9800
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1885/25473
dc.description.abstractObjective To develop a policy formulation tool for strategically informing food and nutrition policy activities to promote healthy and sustainable diets (HSD). Design A policy formulation tool consisting of two complementary components was developed. First, a conceptual framework of the environment-public health nutrition relationship was constructed to characterise and conceptualise the food system problem. Second, an 'Orders of Food Systems Change' schema drawing on systems dynamics thinking was developed to identify, assess and propose policy options to redesign food systems. Setting Food and nutrition policy activities to promote HSD have been politicised, fragmented and lacking a coherent conceptual and strategic focus to tackle complex food system challenges. Results The tool's conceptual framework component comprises three integrated dimensions: (i) a structure built around the environment and public health nutrition relationship that is mediated via the food system; (ii) internal mechanisms that operate through system dynamics; and (iii) external interactions that frame its nature and a scope within ecological parameters. The accompanying schema is structured around three orders of change distinguished by contrasting ideological perspectives on the type and extent of change needed to 'solve' the HSD problem. Conclusions The conceptual framework's systems analysis of the environment-public health nutrition relationship sets out the food system challenges for HSD. The schema helps account for political realities in policy making and is a key link to operationalise the framework's concepts to actions aimed at redesigning food systems. In combination they provide a policy formulation tool to strategically inform policy activities to redesign food systems and promote HSD.
dc.publisherCABI Publishing
dc.sourcePublic Health Nutrition
dc.titleFormulating policy activities to promote healthy and sustainable diets
dc.typeJournal article
local.description.notesImported from ARIES
local.identifier.citationvolume18
dc.date.issued2015
local.identifier.absfor111799 - Public Health and Health Services not elsewhere classified
local.identifier.ariespublicationu5734898xPUB38
local.type.statusPublished Version
local.contributor.affiliationLawrence, Mark, Deakin University
local.contributor.affiliationFriel, Sharon, College of Asia and the Pacific, ANU
local.contributor.affiliationWingrove, Kate, School of Exercise and Nutrition Sciences, Deakin University
local.contributor.affiliationJames, Sarah, College of Asia and the Pacific, ANU
local.contributor.affiliationCandy, Seona, Victorian Eco-Innovation Lab, University of Melbourne,
local.bibliographicCitation.issue13
local.bibliographicCitation.startpage2333
local.bibliographicCitation.lastpage2340
local.identifier.doi10.1017/S1368980015002529
dc.date.updated2015-12-07T11:32:03Z
local.identifier.scopusID2-s2.0-84941170415
CollectionsANU Research Publications

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