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0012/2017 - Health and Food and Nutritional Security Policies: Challenges to control childhood obesity
Políticas de Saúde e de Segurança Alimentar e Nutricional: desafios para o controle da obesidade infantil

Author:

• Patrícia Henriques - Henriques, P. - Niterói - Universidade Federal Fluminense, Faculdade de Nutrição/Departamento de Nutrição Social - <patriciah@id.uff.br>
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8154-0962

Co-author(s):

• Gisele O´Dwyer - O´Dwyer, G. - <odwyer@ensp.fiocruz.br>
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0222-1205
• Patricia Camacho Dias - Dias, P. C. - Universidade Federal Fluminense , Faculdade de Nutrição/Departamento de Nutrição Social - <diaspc2@gmail.com>
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0674-8832
• ROSEANE MOREIRA SAMPAIO BARBOSA - Barbosa, RMS - RIO DE JANEIRO, - Universidade Federal Fluminense, Faculdade de Nutrição/Departamento de Nutrição Social - <roseanesampaio@id.uff.br>
• Luciene Burlandy - Burlandy, L. - Rio de Janeiro, - Universidade Federal Fluminense (UFF), Nutrição Social - <burlandy@uol.com.br>
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0875-6374

Thematic Area:

Políticas em Saúde

Abstract:

This study analyzed the actions of prevention and control of childhood obesity, especially those of Healthy and Adequate Eating Promotion (PAAS), which have been part of the policies of the Brazilian federal government in the last 15 years. All documents presenting PAAS actions in the scope of health and food and nutritional security policies were analyzed from the following dimensions: (1) the approach to PAAS actions; (2) the conditioners of obesity that they intend to affect and (3) the potential disputes of interests. The main actions of PAAS identified aim to promote: food and nutritional education; agroecological based production systems; family farming; food accessibility; healthy environments and regulatory actions. These actions interfere in different determinants of childhood obesity, present different conceptions about the problem and affect different interests. We highlight the disputes between the interests of the commercial corporations of processed foods and agribusiness and the governmental and corporate sectors guided by the objectives of PAAS. The actions focused on the regulation of purchases and public spaces, as well as the publicity of unhealthy products for children, are those that best express the interests in dispute.

Keywords:

Childhood ObesityFood and Nutritional SecurityNutrition Policies

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Henriques, P., O´Dwyer, G., Dias, P. C., Barbosa, RMS, Burlandy, L.. Health and Food and Nutritional Security Policies: Challenges to control childhood obesity. Cien Saude Colet [periódico na internet] (2017/Jan). [Citado em 22/01/2025]. Está disponível em: http://cienciaesaudecoletiva.com.br/en/articles/health-and-food-and-nutritional-security-policies-challenges-to-control-childhood-obesity/16058?id=16058&id=16058



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