Unhealthy foods, non-communicable diseases and the right to health 2014, para. 49
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- States should encourage community health programmes on diet-related NCDs, such as peer education, community gardening and cooking initiatives, or healthy eating initiatives based at schools, workplaces, primary health-care centres or food vendors. Since addressing the risk factors of NCDs involves long-term behavioural change, ownership of health policies by local communities can ensure the success and sustainability of nutrition and preventive health programmes. The participation of local communities ensures that health policies and programmes are better targeted to their health needs. Including children's involvement and input in school lunch programmes can help identify options that are both healthy and appealing to children, and has often shown that the perception that children prefer unhealthy options is inaccurate. Local participation by residents of low-income areas may help provide an assessment of foods available in those areas that is more reflective of the day-to-day experiences of residents than expert-formulated surveys would be able to establish. Likewise, educating and involving consumers and informal sector food vendors in healthy food programmes can improve nutrition in a sector that is otherwise difficult to regulate, while also allowing such vendors to maintain their livelihoods.
- Legal status
- Non-negotiated soft law
- Body
- Special Rapporteur on the right of everyone to the enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of physical and mental health
- Document type
- Special Procedures' report
- Means of adoption
- N.A.
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Food & Nutrition
- Health
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Year
- 2014
- Paragraph type
- Other
- Reference
- SR Health, Report to the HRC (2014), A/HRC/26/31, para. 49.
- Paragraph number
- 49
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