Food and Public Health
Contemporary Issues and Future Directions
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- English
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Food and Public Health
Contemporary Issues and Future Directions
About this book
This book focuses on food policy, and its relationship to public health, as an increasingly important issue in today's society. Contributors highlight the lack of global regulation in the food supply chain and explore the common tendency to leave regulation to markets and to individual consumer decisions. In a period where there is growing concern about the sustainability of contemporary food systems, this book considers the inadequate response made to issues of food waste where solutions in high income countries are dependent on lifestyle and consumer behaviour. It offers an insight in to the importance of people's everyday lives in relation to policies on public health, food and sustainability. The text demonstrates the corrosive impact of social inequality, and the futility of identifying lower income consumers as flawed when aiming for food policies that seek to achieve improvements in public health. Factors such as technological developments, ecological concerns and international trade are also taken in to account.
This book was originally published as a special issue of Critical Public Health.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- Citation Information
- Notes on Contributors
- 1. Food and public health: contemporary issues and future directions
- 2. ‘Globesization’: ecological evidence on the relationship between fast food outlets and obesity among 26 advanced economies
- 3. Food for thought: menu labeling as obesity prevention public health policy
- 4. Thinking about ‘food security’: engaging with UK consumers
- 5. Hunger and nutritional poverty in Germany: quantitative and qualitative empirical insights
- 6. ‘It’s a full time job being poor’: understanding barriers to diabetes prevention in immigrant communities in the USA
- 7. Blaming the consumer – once again: the social and material contexts of everyday food waste practices in some English households
- 8. Health improvement, nutrition-related behaviour and the role of school meals: the usefulness of a socio-ecological perspective to inform policy design, implementation and evaluation
- 9. Food insecurity in South Australian single parents: an assessment of the livelihoods framework approach
- 10. Doing ‘healthier’ food in everyday life? A qualitative study of how Pakistani Danes handle nutritional communication
- 11. A focus group study of food safety practices in relation to listeriosis among the over-60s
- 12. Preventing anxiety: a qualitative study of fish consumption and pregnancy
- Index