title: Developing an evidence-based approach to Public Health Nutrition: translating evidence into policy.
abstract: The aim of this paper is to highlight the importance of an evidence-based approach to the development, implementation and evaluation of policies aimed at improving nutrition-related health in the population. Public Health Nutrition was established to realise a population-level approach to the prevention of the major nutrition-related health problems world-wide. The scope is broad and integrates activity from local, national, regional and international levels. The aim is to inform and develop coherent and effective policies that address the key rate-limiting steps critical to improving nutrition-related public health. This paper sets out the rationale for an evidence-based approach to Public Health Nutrition developed under the umbrella of the European Network for Public Health Nutrition.
authors.affiliation: Public Health Nutrition, Institute of Human Nutrition, University of Southampton, UK. bmm@soton.ac.uk
authors.forename: B
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Margetts
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Warm
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Yngve
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Sjöström
mesh_terms: D019317:Evidence-Based Medicine; D006801:Humans; D018673:Nutrition Policy; D009747:Nutritional Physiological Phenomena / Q000502:physiology*; D011634:Public Health