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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.
PEN Symposia at ISPAH
2 PEN symposia at the 8th International Society for Physical Activity and Health (ISPAH) Congress, October 12 to 14, 2021.
PEN ECN webinar
The PEN Early Careers Network (ECN) invites to its next webinar on Tuesday 19th October, 10:00-10:45 CEST
Webinar title: A Career Pathways Seminar
Speaker: Professor Nanna Lien, leader of the research group in Public Health Nutrition at the Department of Nutrition, University of Oslo.
PEN Food-EPI reports: new documents available
New summaries of the Food-EPI reports at EU level and from the Netherlands (Dutch and English) are available
Summaries of following reports can be downloaded from the PEN website:
- Report “The Healthy Food Environment Policy Index (Food-EPI): European Union. An assessment of EU-level policies influencing food environments and priority actions to create healthy food environments in the EU”
- Report “The Healthy Food Environment Policy Index (Food-EPI): The Netherlands. An assessment of national governmental policies affecting the food environment in the Netherlands and policy actions for creating a healthy food environment”. The summary is available in Dutch and English.
World Café: let’s talk about childhood obesity
Last webinar of the series: "Road to the future: what is the next exit for childhood obesity?" on Tuesday 28th September at 1:00 pm CEST
Four European projects STOP, CO-CREATE, JA Best-ReMaP and PEN addressing the global childhood obesity epidemic join efforts!
Interview with Prof Wolfgang Ahrens
Within the World Café collaboration, the World Obesity Federation interviewed Prof Wolfgang Ahrens (BIPS) coordinator of the Policy Evaluation Network - PEN
The interview focuses on the prevalence of childhood obesity across Europe and the barriers to addressing this problem. Prof Ahrens also talks about how is the Policy Evaluation Network evaluating policy measures to promote a healthy diet and physical activity in Europe and how has the cross-collaboration with the STOP, CO-CREATE, and JA Best-ReMAP projects strengthened the efforts in doing so.
World Café: let’s talk about childhood obesity
Joint activity of four European projects STOP, CO-CREATE, JA Best-ReMaP and PEN addressing the global childhood obesity epidemic
We’d like to invite to the next webinar of the joint activity “World Café: let’s talk about childhood obesity”, titled “Youth: A Driving Force for Change?” to take place on Tuesday 14th September, 13:00-14:00 CEST, to showcase how the CO-CREATE project is involving youth as genuine project partners to identify the drivers of obesity and obesity-related policies that hold promise in building a healthier future. The CO-CREATE dialogue forum tool will be used to convene youth and stakeholders to discuss meaningful youth engagement and inclusion.
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New PEN publication
Policies to promote physical activity in Germany. An analysis based on a policy audit tool from the World Health Organization (German title: Politik zur Bewegungsförderung in Deutschland. Eine Analyse anhand eines Policy-Audit-Tools der Weltgesundheitsorganisation)
PEN workshop - Registration is now open!
Workshop "Quantifying the impact of food and lifestyle policies: Challenges, perspectives and synergies in the identification of causal effects and model-based simulations"
This virtual workshop is organized within the activities of the PEN WP3 “Estimation and simulation of policy impact” and is open to all interested.
Save-the-date: PEN workshop
Workshop "Quantifying the impact of food and lifestyle policies: Challenges, perspectives and synergies in the identification of causal effects and model-based simulations"
This virtual workshop is organized within the activities of the PEN WP3 “Estimation and simulation of policy impact” and is open to all interested.
PEN new publication
A PEN article on stakeholder views on taxation of sugar-sweetened beverages and its adoption in the Netherlands is online!
An increasing number of governments worldwide have introduced a tax on sugar-sweetened beverages (SSB) for public health. However, the adoption of such a policy is still debated in many other countries, such as in the Netherlands. For this paper, the author team investigated Dutch stakeholder views on taxation of SSB and perceived barriers and facilitators to its adoption in the Netherlands.