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• Many countries around the world are conscious about their citizen’s social, economic and health issues. Nutrition in Public Health, principles, policies, and practice’s provides an overview of the field and focuses on the role of the Government in determining nutrition policy and practice. The main focus behind this research is to discuss on the socioeconomic, cultural, and health issues especially among emerging majority and ethnic populations around the world.
• Furthermore this research will provide the opportunity for policy makers around the world to consider the factors that impact on the effective implementation and evaluation of such policies. This task allows some flexibility in focussing more on international, national, state or local food and nutrition policies barriers, policy development and implementation.
• Further analysis will be on cutting-edge legislation regarding functional foods, food labelling, and health claim regulations. Finally conclusion will be drawn on the basis of effective solutions to enable more efficient food and nutrition policy development and implementation.

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Rationale: This assessment item has been designed to provide you with an opportunity to develop an understanding of the history of food and nutrition policy both globally and nationally and to consider the factors that impact on the effective implementation and evaluation of such policies. This task allows some flexibility in focussing more on international, national, state or local food and nutrition policies, depending on your areas of interest.
Instructions: Coveney (2003) comments that if we want to better understand the relationship between food policy and public health, ‘we would do well to focus less on food policies per se and more on the politics of food’.
Evaluate Coveney’s statement through an examination of the history of food and nutrition policy globally, including Australia, giving consideration to the barriers to food and nutrition policy development and implementation. Finally, identify effective solutions to these barriers to enable more effective food and nutrition policy development and implementation.
You may choose to focus on international, national or local government food and nutrition policy in this essay, depending on your future career aspirations to work within these different levels of government.
Ref: Coveney, J. 2003, ‘Why food policy is critical to public health?’ Critical Public Health, Vol 13, No. 2, pp. 99-105.