Table 2 Comparison of Food and Health Dialogue and Healthy Food Partnership
From: Designing a Healthy Food Partnership: lessons from the Australian Food and Health Dialogue
Food and Health Dialogue | Healthy Food Partnership | |
|---|---|---|
Overarching problem | Diet-related ill health is the leading cause of disease in Australia | Diet-related ill health is the leading cause of disease in Australia |
Specified high level goals | Raise the nutritional profile of food through food innovation | Cooperatively tackle obesity and encourage healthy eating |
Provide a framework for government, public health groups and industry to work to improve the diet of the population | Work together on strategies to educate consumers on consuming fresh produce, appropriate portion sizes, and to accelerate efforts to reformulate food to make it healthier | |
Complement the Health Star Rating System | ||
Implementation strategy | Government, industry and other stakeholders | Government, industry and other (limited) stakeholders |
Operationalised through an Executive Group, working groups and industry roundtables | Operational approach currently unspecified | |
Chief activities | Food reformulation to agreed targets | Consumer education |
Consumer education | Portion standardisation | |
Portion standardisation | Acceleration of efforts to reformulate food | |
Objectives | Short-term | To be specified |
• Improved composition of foods | ||
• Enhanced consumer knowledge | ||
• Standardised portion sizes | ||
Medium-term | ||
• Improved healthiness of food eaten | ||
• Improved blood pressure, obesity, diabetes, blood lipids | ||
Long-term | ||
• Reduced burden cardiovascular diseases, cancers, musculoskeletal diseases and diabetes | ||
Membership of Executive | Federal Health Ministerial representative, Australian Food and Grocery, National Heart Foundation of Australia, Woolworths Ltd, Senior Dietitian and Research Scientist, Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation, Public Health Association of Australia, South Australia Health, McDonald’s Australia, Food Standards Australia New Zealand | Federal Health Ministerial Representative, Australian Food and Grocery Council, National Heart Foundation of Australia, Woolworths Ltd, Metcash, Coles, Public Health Association of Australia, Dietitians Association of Australia, AusVeg, Dairy Australia, Meat and Livestock Australia |