Wickins-Drazilova, Dita, Nicholls, Stuart, Williams, Garrath, Börnhorst, Claudia, Grafström, L., De Henauw, S., Marild, S., Molnar, Denes, Moreno Aznar, Luis, Pigeot, Iris, Siani, A., Tornartis, Michael, Veidebaum, T. and Ahrens, Wolfgang (2010) Parental views on public-policy options regarding healthy eating. In: 9th Congress of the European Society for Agricultural and Food Ethics. Published in: Proceedings of the 9th Congress of the European Society for Agricultural and Food Ethics: Global Food Security: Ethical and Legal Challenges pp. 184-188. doi:10.3921/978-90-8686-710-3

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Abstract

As part of the IDEFICS obesity intervention study, baseline opinions about key issues were elicited from the parents of children about to take part in the intervention in eight European countries. This was done by a questionnaire, in which a set of questions was specifically designed to investigate attitudes towards ethical and public-policy aspects of interventions on healthy lifestyle and diet. The aim of these questions was partly to elicit parents’ views concerning the ethics and effectiveness of interventions, responsibilities of schools and parents themselves, and also to gain some indication as to how parents might view some of the policy options available. Here we present analysis of three of the questions on public-policy regarding healthy eating: 1. “I feel that the authorities don’t do enough to support healthy eating.” 2. “There should be a controlled restriction on advertising of high-fat and high-sugar foods.” 3. “Very unhealthy foods should be highly taxed while healthy foods should be subsidised.” We report here that there are statistically significant differences between the respondents both by country, and by gender. There is strong support among parents for controlled restriction on advertising of high-fat and high-sugar foods, as well as supporting of taxation of ‘unhealthy’ foods and subsidising of ‘healthy’ foods. In most countries men are more critical of authorities’ support of healthy eating than women, and they are also more in favour of taxation and subsidising of certain types of food.

Item Type:	Conference Item (Paper)
Divisions:	Faculty of Medicine > Warwick Medical School > Health Sciences Faculty of Medicine > Warwick Medical School
Journal or Publication Title:	Proceedings of the 9th Congress of the European Society for Agricultural and Food Ethics: Global Food Security: Ethical and Legal Challenges
Publisher:	Wageningen Academic Publishers
Official Date:	2010
Dates:	Date Event 2010 Published
Page Range:	pp. 184-188
DOI:	10.3921/978-90-8686-710-3
Status:	Peer Reviewed
Publication Status:	Published
Conference Paper Type:	Paper
Title of Event:	9th Congress of the European Society for Agricultural and Food Ethics
Type of Event:	Other

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