Australia: the healthiest country by 2020
National Preventative Health Strategy – the roadmap for action
Chapter 2: Obesity in Australia: A need for urgent action
Table of contents
Chapter 2: Table of contents
The case for prevention
Targets
Key action areas
- Key action area 1: Drive environmental changes throughout the community that increase levels of physical activity and reduce sedentary behaviour
- Key action area 2: Drive change within the food supply to increase the availability and demand for healthier food products, and decrease the availability and demand for unhealthy food products
- Key action area 3: Embed physical activity and healthy eating in everyday life
- Key action area 4: Encourage people to improve their levels of physical activity and healthy eating through comprehensive and effective social marketing
- Key action area 5: Reduce exposure of children and others to marketing, advertising, promotion and sponsorship of energy-dense nutrient-poor foods and beverages
- Key action area 6: Strengthen, skill and support primary healthcare and public health workforce to support people in making healthy choices
- Key action area 7: Address maternal and child health, enhancing early life and growth patterns
- Key action area 8: Support low-income communities to improve their levels of physical activity and healthy eating
- Key action area 9: Reduce obesity prevalence and burden among Indigenous Australians
- Key action area 10: Build the evidence base, monitor and evaluate effectiveness of actions
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