Australia gets a “Fail” for Obesity

Australia gets a “Fail” for Obesity

Australia gets a “Fail” for Obesity (#110)

Rob Moodie ¹

University of Melbourne, Carlton, VIC, Australia

In 2009 the National Preventative Health Taskforce, commissioned by the Health Minister Nicola Roxon, set out a detailed and comprehensive national strategy to reduce the burden of disease from obesity, tobacco and alcohol. As a nation there is good evidence to award an A+ for tobacco control, but as this presentation will show, Australia’s approach to preventing obesity is failing badly.

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Moodie, R

Rob is Professor of Public Health at the University of Melbourne. He first worked in refugee health care in the Sudan with Save the Children and MSF, and later for Congress in Alice Springs. He has worked for the Burnet Institute, WHO and UNAIDS and was CEO of VicHealth from 1998 to 2007. He chaired the National Preventative Health Task Force from 2008-2011. Earlier this year he led a team that wrote the Profits and Pandemics paper in the Lancet. He is co-author of four books, his most recent being Recipes for a Great Life, written with Gabriel Gate

Australia gets a “Fail” for Obesity (#110)

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