Abstract Healthy eating policies have become a hot and thorny domain of public concern because they affect people’s liberties, life prospects, expenditures. However, what state institutions may legitimately enforce is controversial matter. Is paternalism for the sake health permissible? Could people be incentivized to eat in healthier manner? Barnhill Bonotti’s recent book ( Eating Policy Polit...

BACKGROUND Differentials and inequalities in heath status are closely related to the implementation and the sustainability of public health policies. The paper investigates differences in health expectancy as an indicator of population health among regions and between genders. DESIGN AND METHODS Based on activity limitation, we compute Healthy Life Years indicator by applying the prevalence-b...

Public- and private-sector initiatives to promote healthy eating and physical activity, called 'healthy lifestyles', are a relatively recent response to the global obesity pandemic. The present paper explores different views about marketing healthy lifestyles with a special emphasis on private-sector initiatives and public-private partnerships designed to reach young people. We discuss aspects ...

In an effort to contain the spread of COVID-19, many states and countries have adopted public health restrictions on activities previously considered commonplace: crossing state borders, eating indoors, gathering together, even leaving one’s home. These policies often focus specific or groups, rather than imposing same limits across board. this Article, I consider law ethics these policies, whi...

Global health issues are focused on the search for social justice as a measure to mitigate negative effects of the neoliberal economic development model, which several countries have adopted, on the populations’ living and health conditions. In that context, health has been characterized by sanitary voids, resulting from combined effects and structural adjustments, besides the interferences of ...

The present essay deals with the relation between epidemiology and public policies, highlighting the epidemiology position in the public health field, analyzing the impact of public policies over epidemiological profile and contributions from epidemiology to the lay down, implementation and evaluation of public health policies. In the first title, the essay debates the links between the epidemi...

This article is a review of the book “Health in All Policies: Seizing opportunities, implementing policies” edited by Kimmo Leppo, Eeva Ollila, Sebastián Peña, Matthias Wismar, and Sarah Cook. This book (printed and online publication) was published by the Finnish Ministry of Social Affairs and Health, Finland in 2013 (1). The book is freely available at http://www.euro.who.int/__data/assets/pd...

Many of the societal level factors that affect health – the ‘social determinants of health (SDH)’ – exist outside the health sector, across diverse portfolios of government, and other major institutions including non-governmental organisations (NGOs) and the private sector. This has created growing interest in how to create and implement public policies which will drive better and fairer health...

A constant reproduction of environmental injustices and health iniquities has demanded the employment of participatory/dialectic approaches to research and to intervene in the reality making possible the involvement of social actors in healthy public policies. On this framework, the aim of this paper is to analyse scientific production with dialectic approaches associated with public policies i...