Eat Well Australia: An Agenda for Action for Public Health Nutrition, 2000–2010

Overview

EWA has been designed to provide government and other sectors with a strategic framework and an agenda for action on public health nutrition for the first decade of the twenty first century. This document provides the detailed EWA Agenda for Action, as outlined in the summary EWA Strategic Framework document.

EWA has inherited previous work completed under the 1992 Food and nutrition policy, and aims to build on the broad intersectoral support that policy received. It has been developed over 1999 – 2000 with two rounds of consultations, public submissions and seminars in major centres. EWA has benefited from the experience and expertise of a wide range of professional interests, in all sectors: governments, private industry, non-government organisations, research and teaching centres, community and Indigenous organisations. It has also been able to build on other national public health strategies, including ‘Acting on Australia’s Weight’, ‘Active Australia’, the National Breastfeeding Strategy and the National Action Plan on Vegetables and Fruit. Most importantly, EWA sets out to learn from, build on, support and extend the existing state and territory food and nutrition strategies. The SIGNAL EWA Working Group, the Vegetables and Fruit Working Group and the National Obesity Prevention Group have all contributed to a set of 26 ‘whole of population’ initiatives covering priorities in health gain and capacity building.

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