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PEN Special Issue is online!
The funded period of the PEN project ended in July 2022 and a journal supplement compiling important results is now available online, published by the Eur J Public Health. This special issue titled Creating evidence for public policies to improve diet and physical activity behaviours in Europe comprises 13 manuscripts that are output from the PEN project. Topics examined include new theoretical models to advance our understanding of the policy process and its evaluation. It provides an overview of priority public policies and policy areas most likely to sustainably reduce physical inactivity, unhealthy diets and sedentary behaviour. It explores the first steps in a bespoke policy monitoring and health surveillance system for Europe, and a refinement of our knowledge of appropriate research designs and methods for the quantification of policy impact. PEN results illustrate how best to evaluate the implementation and impact of policy in order to yield the best results for a healthy life of European citizens. Importantly, PEN has provided recommendations on equity and diversity to ensure that policy actions are inclusive as opposed to exclusive.
The full supplement is available online at: https://academic.oup.com/eurpub/issue/32/Supplement_4
Training course on PA policy and intervention evalulation
PEN Pre-conference symposium at EUPHA 2022
Evaluating implementation of public policy for the promotion of physical activity and healthy nutrition: Why, how and what should this involve
Pre-conference symposium on Wed. 9 November, 9:00 – 12:30 CET in Gamma 6-7
PEN PA-EPI reports: new documents available
Irish Physical Activity EPI report
Following on from the official launch of the PEN PA-EPI in Brussels earlier this summer. This report was presented by researchers from the University of Limerick at a dissemination event on the 25th of August 2022 at the Hilton Hotel in Kilmainham, Dublin. It provides information on the research underpinning the development of the PA-EPI as well as the results of the first study to utilise the PA-EPI for physical activity policy research.
PEN new publication
Biondi B, Romanowska A, Birr K. Impact evaluation of a cycling promotion campaign using daily bicycle counters data: The case of Cycling May in Poland. Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice. 2022;164:337-51. Link.
PEN new publication
Brukało K, Kaczmarek K, Kowalski O, Romaniuk P. on behalf of the PEN consortium Implementation of sugar-sweetened beverages tax and its perception among public health stakeholders. A study from Poland. Frontiers in Nutrition. 2022;9. Link.
PA-EPI is officially launched!
PEN researchers present the Physical Activity Environment Policy Index (PA-EPI)
The Physical Activity Environment Policy Index (PA-EPI) is a tool to designed to help answer the overarching question: how much progress have governments made towards good practice in improving PA environments and implementing physical inactivity prevention policies and actions? To address physical inactivity, a ‘healthy‘ PA environment is paramount. The PA environment is defined, for the purpose of the PA-EPI, as the collective physical, economic, political, and sociocultural contexts, opportunities, and conditions that influence one’s PA choices and behaviours.
Recording of plenary session on Nutrition and Physical Activity Policies
Recording of plenary session on Nutrition and Physical Activity Policies
Did you miss the main plenary session of the symposium on „Future directions for nutrition and physical activity policies to prevent NCDs across Europe” ? We invite you to view it!
"Nutrition and physical activity policies - Benchmarking, best practice and potential“
View the recording of this session at VIMEO:
Policy symposium started! #NCDPrevention22
The policy symposium "Future directions for nutrition and physical activity policies to prevent NCDs across Europe" started today!
Further details are available at the dedicated website at https://www.jpi-pen.eu/policy-symposium.html
Policy symposium live-stream
Live-stream of plenary session on Nutrition and Physical Activity Policies
The main plenary session of the symposium on „Future directions for nutrition and physical activity policies to prevent NCDs across Europe” (14-16 June in Brussels) will be streamed live!
Main plenary session
"Nutrition and physical activity policies - Benchmarking, best practice and potential“
on Wednesday 15th June from 1:30 to 5:00 pm CEST
View the live session at https://vimeo.com/event/2186075
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Policy symposium on NCD prevention
Policy symposium "Future directions for nutrition and physical activity policies to prevent NCDs across Europe" 14.-16. June in Brussels
Obesity is a chronic, relapsing, multifactorial disease, and the main risk factor for several other non-communicable diseases (NCDs). The growing burden of NCDs are the leading cause of global mortality killing 41 million people each year. Successful policy actions to address physical inactivity, unhealthy diets and sedentary behaviours, key risk factors for NCDS can improve the health and wellbeing of populations and reduce premature mortality. The Joint Action (JA) Best-ReMaP, projects CO-CREATE, PEN and STOP aim to contribute to understanding how to achieve successful policy implementation at different cultural, demographic, or socioeconomic levels.
PEN ECN webinar
The PEN Early Careers Network (ECN) invites to its next webinar on Tuesday 8th February, 4pm (UK/Irish time)
Presentation 1: Stakeholders experiences of developing and implementing policies and environmental interventions to promote active travel - Emma Lawlor, University of Cambridge, UK
Presentation 2: Policies and practices reconnecting children to nature - Deepti Adlakha, Natural Learning Initiative (NLI) & Bria Sledge, NLI, NC State University, USA
This webinar is open to all early career professionals, you do not need to be a PEN ECN member to join.
Please register in advance here.
PEN Food-EPI report for Poland
The Healthy Food Environment Policy Index (Food-EPI): Poland
The report summarizes the results of the Food-EPI index implementation in Poland. Our survey tried to answer 2 basic questions:
PEN Food-EPI report & policy brief for Germany
The Food-EPI is a methodological framework for the systematic collection, analysis and international comparison of policy frameworks that influence nutrition at the population level is available at the PEN website.