Food and public health : contemporary issues and future directions / edited by Wendy Wills, Alizon Draper and Ulla Gustafsson.

London : Routledge : imprint of Taylor & Francis Group, 2013.

x, 142 pages ; 26 cm

Includes bibliographical references and index.

1.Food and public health: contemporary issues and future directions / Alizon Draper -- 2.'Globesization': ecological evidence on the relationship between fast food outlets and obesity among 26 advanced economies / David Gimeno -- 3.Food for thought: menu labeling as obesity prevention public health policy / Gee Hee Hong -- 4.Thinking about ̀food security': engaging with UK consumers / Rosemary Collier -- 5.Hunger and nutritional poverty in Germany: quantitative and qualitative empirical insights / Andreas Hirseland -- 6.Ìt's a full time job being poor': understanding barriers to diabetes prevention in immigrant communities in the USA / Meagan Davis -- 7.Blaming the consumer - once again: the social and material contexts of everyday food waste practices in some English households / David Evans -- 8.Health improvement, nutrition-related behaviour and the role of school meals: the usefulness of a socio-ecological perspective to inform policy design, implementation and evaluation / Lawrence Moore -- 9.Food insecurity in South Australian single parents: an assessment of the livelihoods framework approach / John Coveney -- 10.Doing ̀healthier' food in everyday life? A qualitative study of how Pakistani Danes handle nutritional communication / Iben Jensen -- 11.A focus group study of food safety practices in relation to listeriosis among the over-60s / Richard Milne -- 12.Preventing anxiety: a qualitative study of fish consumption and pregnancy / Helene Brembeck.