Search Results - Food & Health Alliance

Fair Society, Healthy Lives - The Marmot Review

Last Updated: 10/06/2010

Fair Society, Healthy Lives: A Strategic Review of Health Inequalities in England Post-2010 was published on 11 February 2010

What is this? report
What is it about? health and wellbeing inequalities
Where is it relevant? England
When was this published? 11/02/2010

18th Annual Public Health Forum: Confronting the Public Health Issues

Last Updated: 30/12/2009

Global issues, local actions - health and wellbeing in a time of ecological and economic crises

What is this? events
What is it about? health improvement inequalities
Where is it relevant? UK
Start date: 24/03/2010
End date: 25/03/2010
Where is this happening? Bournemouth International Centre

Communities, inequality and health improvement: Policy and practice for community-led health

Last Updated: 30/12/2009

Healthy Communities: Meeting the Shared Challenge is a Scottish Government funded programme that aims to encourage and support community-led approaches to health improvement throughout Scotland. This conference aims to share experiences and lessons from across Scotland, to link community-led health to key policy agendas, and help signpost the resources that are now available to support community-led health.

What is this? events community project
What is it about? health improvement inequalities
Where is it relevant? Scotland
Start date: 01/02/2010
End date: 01/02/2010
Where is this happening? Perth Concert Hall

Age Concern Scotland

Last Updated: 08/10/2009

Age Concern Scotland works in partnership with Age Concern UK, campaigning for the voice of older people to be heard.

What is this? organisation
What is it about? older people inequalities
Where is it relevant? Scotland
When was this published? 24/09/2009

Growing Up In Scotland: Sweep 3 Food and Activity Report

Last Updated: 07/10/2009

This report uses data from the Growing Up In Scotland (GUS) study to explore the prevalence of, and many issues related to, food and physical activity in Scotland specifically in relation to young children.

What is this? report
What is it about? young children socio-economic groups inequalities healthy eating meals fruit and vegetables
Where is it relevant? Scotland
When was this published? 21/01/2009

Children of the 1950s

Last Updated: 05/10/2009

This Aberdeen-based cohort study is designed to investigate biological and social influences in early life on health in later life, from infancy to adulthood.

What is this? research
What is it about? health determinants young children adults inequalities cardiovascular diseases pregnancy and childbirth diet

Changes in Diet and Food Access 1992-2002

Last Updated: 22/09/2009

This research report provides an overview of findings on dietary change and food access using data from the West of Scotland Twenty-07 longitudinal study.

What is this? research
What is it about? food access retailers inequalities healthy eating fruit people living in areas of multiple deprivation
Where is it relevant? Scotland (local)

Healthy Eating, Active Living: An action plan to improve diet, increase physical activity and tackle obesity (2008-2011)

Last Updated: 03/09/2009

An action plan to improve diet, increase physical activity and tackle obesity in Scotland.

What is this? policy and implementation
What is it about? obesity healthy eating physical activity inequalities
Where is it relevant? Scotland
When was this published? 23/06/2008

Innovative approaches and promising practices by health promotion bodies in Europe to counteract obesity and improve health equity

Last Updated: 19/08/2009

This report from EuroHealthNet produced in July 2009 outlines the link between health inequalities and rising rates of obesity, and how existing measures to tackle it may reverse this trend.

What is this? report case study
What is it about? obesity inequalities
Where is it relevant? Europe
When was this published? 01/07/2009

A strategy for Europe on nutrition, overweight and obesity related health issues (2007)

Last Updated: 17/08/2009

This white paper sets out an integrated EU approach to reducing ill health due to poor nutrition, overweight and obesity.

What is this? policy
What is it about? overweight obesity healthy eating activity levels inequalities
Where is it relevant? Europe
When was this published? 30/05/2007

Research findings RUHBC – Dec 2008 edition

Last Updated: 13/08/2009

December's edition of Research Findings from the Research Unit in Health, Behaviour & Change (RUHBC) focuses on 'Food, health, exercise and weight: The experiences and concerns of young teenagers from higher socio-economic status families'.

What is this? research
What is it about? healthy weight young people socio-economic groups inequalities
Where is it relevant? Scotland
When was this published? 01/12/2008

Community Food and Health (Scotland)

Last Updated: 13/08/2009

Community Food and Health (Scotland) is a national organisation that supports initiatives in low-income communities to help people take up a healthy diet.

What is this? organisation
What is it about? healthy eating inequalities
Where is it relevant? Scotland
Tagged with: SDAP
When was this published? 27/07/2009

Equally Well: report of the Ministerial Task Force on health inequalities

Last Updated: 30/07/2009

The 2008 report of the ministerial task force on health inequalities, which was established to identify and prioritise practical actions to reduce the most significant and widening health inequalities in Scotland.

What is this? policy development
What is it about? inequalities young children
Where is it relevant? Scotland
When was this published? 19/06/2008

Equally Well implementation plan

Last Updated: 30/07/2009

The Equally Well Implementation Plan sets out how the Scottish Government and community planning partnerships will turn the recommendations of Equally Well into real outcomes in the medium and long term.

What is this? action plan
What is it about? inequalities inequality of provision schools young children
Where is it relevant? Scotland
When was this published? 11/12/2008