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Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health, 2017 Objective: To review Australian policies on active transport, defined as walking and cycling for utilitarian purposes. To estimate the potential health impact of achieving four active transport policy scenarios.
Vicki Brown +4 more
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Globalization and Health, 2018 Background The food industry can influence individual and population level food consumption behaviours, shape public preferences and interfere with government policy on obesity prevention and NCDs.
Nongnuch Jaichuen +4 more
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Belief in Food Addiction and Obesity-Related Policy Support. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2016 OBJECTIVES:This study examines whether belief in the food addiction construct is associated with support for obesity-related policies (e.g., restrictions on foods served in schools and workplace cafeterias, subsidies on fruits and vegetables), while ...
Erica M Schulte +2 more
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A Review of Obesity-Themed Policy Briefs [PDF]
American Journal of Preventive Medicine, 2012 Policy approaches are one of the most promising population-based means of addressing the epidemic of obesity in the U.S., especially as they create supportive environments for healthy living. Policy briefs can be an effective means of disseminating research information to inform obesity prevention efforts; however, they are often ineffective because of
Elizabeth A, Dodson +3 more
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Systematic review on quantifying pedestrian injury when evaluating changes to the built environment
Preventive Medicine Reports, 2022 Modifying the built environment to make communities more walkable remains one strategy to promote physical activity. These modifications may have the added benefit of reducing the risk of pedestrian injury; however, there is a gap in the physical ...
Keshia M. Pollack Porter +4 more
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Frontiers in Public HealthIntroductionEvidence-based policies are a powerful tool for impacting health and addressing obesity. Effectively communicating evidence to policymakers is critical to ensure evidence is incorporated into policies.
Elizabeth A. Dodson +12 more
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Obesity Science & Practice, 2017 Summary Objective Pervasive weight stigma and discrimination have led to ongoing calls for efforts to reduce this bias. Despite increasing research on stigma‐reduction strategies, perspectives of individuals who have experienced weight stigma have rarely
R. M. Puhl +3 more
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OBESITY POLICY AND WELFARE [PDF]
Public Affairs Quarterly, 2019 AbstractGovernments can try to counter obesity through preventive regulations such as sugar taxes, which appear to raise costs or reduce options for consumers. Would the regulations improve the welfare of adult consumers? The regulations might improve choice sets through a mechanism such as reformulation, but the scope for such improvement is limited ...
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Ethical issues in obesity interventions for populations [PDF]
, 2012 Beyond the usual technical and evidentiary considerations, there are ethical questions that we must consider in the justification of our obesity interventions in the name of expected population health gains. These relate to the types of health identities
Fry, Craig L, Craig L. Fry
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Countering commercial interests: building advocacy campaigns to protect children from food marketing
Public Health Research & Practice, 2019 Objectives: To describe the strategies used by Cancer Council NSW (CCNSW) and Obesity Policy Coalition (OPC) to influence government policy on food marketing to children. Type of programs: Comprehensive advocacy campaigns.
Wendy L Watson, Jane Martin
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