Food policy
Subtitle: integrating health, environment and society
By: Tim Lang, David Barling, Martin Caraher.
Contributors: Barling, David.; Caraher, Martin.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 313
ISBN-13: 9780198567882
Subjects: Nutrition policy -- Great Britain; Public health -- Great Britain
Description: Food policy has long been viewed as an essential part of the public health agenda, but this book identifies the importance of environmental damage and social inequalities to these issues. The authors offer a review of current and past food policy, proposing the need for a new ecological public health approach to food policy.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.