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Investing for health: potential mechanisms for the investment community to contribute to obesity prevention and improved nutrition
PURPOSE OF REVIEW: There is a critical need for corporations to be part of the solutions to major societal issues, such as obesity. Investment decisions can have a substantial impact on both corporate practices and population health. This paper aimed to explore potential mechanisms for incorporating obesity and related nutrition considerations into responsible investment (RI) approaches. RECENT FINDINGS: We found that there are a number of available strategies for the investment community to incorporate obesity considerations into their decisions. However, despite some recent efforts to improve company disclosure in the area and the emergence of new tools for assessing food company nutrition policies, the inclusion of obesity and related nutrition considerations as part of RI is currently extremely limited. There appears to be substantial scope to apply approaches already in widespread use for other RI considerations to the area of obesity. Ways in which to apply measurement frameworks across different markets and sectors need to be explored.
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Current obesity reportsVolume
7Issue
3Pagination
211 - 219Publisher
SpringerLocation
Berlin, GermanyPublisher DOI
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2162-4968Language
engPublication classification
C1 Refereed article in a scholarly journalCopyright notice
2018, SpringerUsage metrics
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