Seminar – Evidence for healthy and equitable population food policies

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• Dr Kathryn Backholer, Global Obesity Centre, Deakin University, Australia.
• Wednesday 20 June 2018, 12:30-13:30
• Meeting rooms, Level 4 Institute of Metabolic Sciences, Addenbrooke’s Treatment Centre (ATC).

If you have a question about this talk, please contact Paul Browne.

Poor diet is a leading cause of disease burden in Australia and globally. Adults and children who experience greater socioeconomic disadvantage, whether from a lower income, education or from living in socioeconomically disadvantaged neighbourhoods, are more likely to consume poorer diets. Population-wide, or “Universal” policies are designed to affect all people regardless of risk or circumstances. These types of policies have the potential to influence overall population diets and health and also health inequalities. However, health equity effects depend on an impact for higher risk population subgroups in proportion to need.

In this presentation I will discuss our research examining the health equity impact of key population food policies. With a focus on price manipulation for healthy eating, I will draw on a range of epidemiological studies to present evidence on how actions can be taken to rebalance the price of foods towards healthier options, thereby improving population health and health inequities.

This talk is part of the MRC Epidemiology and CEDAR Seminars series.

This talk is included in these lists:

• Annual Food Agenda
• BHRU Annual Lecture 2015
• BHRU Annual Lecture 2016
• Cambridge Global Food Security
• Cardiovascular Epidemiology Unit Special Seminars
• Department of Public Health and Primary Care
• MRC Epidemiology and CEDAR Seminars
• Meeting rooms, Level 4 Institute of Metabolic Sciences, Addenbrooke’s Treatment Centre (ATC)
• Primary Care
• PublicHealth@Cambridge
• Talks related to sustainability and the environment
• history
• primary care

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