[EQ] Guidance on the prevention of cardiovascular disease at the population level

Guidance on the prevention of cardiovascular disease at the population level

UK Department of Health (DH) asked the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE), 2010

 

            Available online at: http://bit.ly/ba1OJb

The guidance topics include:

·         How to reduce the nation’s consumption of salt, saturated fats and trans fats

·         How to ensure food marketing and promotions aimed at children and young people do not encourage them to consume high levels of salt, saturated fats and trans fats

·         Commercial interests

·         Food product labelling

·         The European Union’s common agricultural policy

·         Public sector catering guidelines

·         Advice on take-aways and other food outlets.

The recommendations for practice mainly focus on how to plan, develop and run effective regional CVD prevention programmes (recommendations 13–18). Other topics covered include:

·         Children and young people

·         Public sector food provision

·         Physical activity

·         Health impact assessments of regional and local plans and policies

·         Take-aways and other food outlets

·         Nutrition training for catering managers.

Contents

1 Recommendations

2 Public health need and practice

3 Considerations

4 Implementation

5 Recommendations for research

6 Updating the recommendations

7 Related NICE guidance

8 References

Appendix A Membership of the Programme Development Group (PDG), the NICE project team and external contractors

Appendix B Summary of the methods used to develop this guidance

Appendix C The evidence

Appendix D Gaps in the evidence

Appendix E: supporting documents

Guidance documents

·         Guidance PDF format  | MS Word format

·         Quick reference guide PDF format

Implementing this guidance

·         Costing report

·         Costing template

·         Slide set

·         PH25 Prevention of cardiovascular disease: implementing policy goals - slide set

Other information Background information

 

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