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authors: Merritt, Rowena K.; Tshering, Puja; Suggs, L. Suzanne
title: To Improve Nutrition and Healthy Eating, We Need to Generate Demand
date: 2021-09-21
journal: Int J Public Health
DOI: 10.3389/ijph.2021.1604390
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doc_id: 692991
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To support more professionals in the development of effective demand-creation programmes, Sight and Life sponsored a 3-days course at the SSPH+ Summer School in Public Health 2020 and again in 2021. The course explores how tools and new innovations in behavioural science and social marketing can be used to positively impact on many behaviours, as well as to increase service uptake and generate demand for healthy goods, including healthier foods and beverages.

Capacity building and sharing of experiences across borders and between high, middle, and low income countries are paramount to tackle the triple burden of malnutrition across the globe. We hope public health organisations prioritise such training of the workforce and move from promoting healthy diets to creating a demand for healthy foods that people want, have access to, and benefit from. We call on governments, NGOs, industry, universities, and communities to prioritise programmes and policies that not only promote healthy diets, but understand the strategies that help generate demand for them. Only then, will we start to see the burden of unhealthy nutrition decrease across the world.

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RM was a consultant for the NGO Sight and Life. PT was employed by the NGO Sight and Life. LSS is chair of the steering committee for the SSPH+ Public Health Summer School in Lugano.