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Building healthier, more equitable and sustainable food systems for Australia

Unhealthy diet is the leading preventable risk factor contributing to the burden of disease. This research found it is possible to influence nutrition policy more effectively, and ensure governments implement evidence-based actions in the face of competing interests.
  • Building healthier, more equitable and sustainable food systems for Australia

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Key messages

  • Current food environments and policies do not support healthy eating despite strong evidence that healthy diets prevent the advent of chronic disease.
  • We assessed current food environments in participating jurisdictions; examined how implementing priority policy actions could be better supported and by which actors; and collaborated with key stakeholders to develop, implement, and evaluate specific demonstration projects.
  • We developed Australia’s first Food Environment Dashboard that provides the best available data on all aspects of Australia’s food environments for those interested in understanding ways to improve population diets and to inform policy makers at all levels of government.
  • We produced evidence demonstrating that healthy, environmentally sustainable diets can be less expensive than the current Australian diet, although they are still unaffordable for low-income groups, particularly for those living in remote areas of Australia.
  • We modified existing protocols for assessing diet costs and affordability for use with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities and low socioeconomic groups.
  • We outlined several ways to ensure that governments are well placed to implement policies to support improved population diets.
  • This research provides policy makers, key actors and the public with evidence-based nutrition policy actions that could facilitate Australia’s transition to nutritious, equitable and sustainable food systems.
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DATE 15 Jun 2022

TYPE Findings Brief

Prevention experts

  • Professor Amanda Lee

    University of Queensland
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  • Professor Sharon Friel Professor Sharon Friel has finished working with the Prevention Centre.

    Australian National University
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  • Professor Anna Peeters

    Deakin University
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  • Professor Gary Sacks

    Deakin University
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Topics

  • Healthy eating ,
  • Priority populations ,

Prevention methodologies

  • Prevention in the health sector ,

Related projects

  • Supporting priority actions in the food and nutrition system

    Illustration of a man at a fork in a road: one road leads to junk food and the other to healthy food

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  • Australia’s Food Environment Dashboard website

    Resource category: Websites Websites
    Date 13 Jun 2021
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    Resource category: Findings Brief Findings Brief
    Date 16 Feb 2017
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Acknowledgement of Country

The Australian Prevention Partnership Centre acknowledges Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples as the First Australians and Traditional Custodians of the lands where we live, learn, and work.

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The Australian Prevention Partnership Centre is funded by the NHMRC, Australian Government Department of Health, ACT Health, Cancer Council Australia, NSW Ministry of Health, Wellbeing SA, Tasmanian Department of Health, and VicHealth. The Australian Government also contributed through the Medical Research Future Fund. Queensland Health became a financial contributor in 2022. The Prevention Centre is administered by the Sax Institute.

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