posted on 2008-03-01, 00:00authored byCatherine Burns
The article examines the government policy for obesity in Australia. It characterizes the current policy for obesity in the country as a collective and systematic failure to alter diet, physical activity and culture despite public initiatives by organizations such as International Obesity Task Force and World Health Organization. It demonstrates policy leverage points at which all regulations has potential to prevent obesity problem in the country. The problem on obesity requires the collaboration of many disciplines including from the health sciences such as nutrition science.
History
Journal
Australian economic review
Volume
41
Issue
1
Pagination
90 - 96
Publisher
Wiley-Blackwell Publishing Asia
Location
Carlton, Vic.
ISSN
0004-9018
eISSN
1467-8462
Language
eng
Publication classification
C1.1 Refereed article in a scholarly journal; C Journal article