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Health and Other Professionals

HEALTH AND OTHER PROFESSIONALS1


AIM
Conduct professional practice to realise the potential for promoting health including cancer prevention

RECOMMENDATIONS


All professionals:

Include food, nutrition, physical activity, and cancer prevention in core professional training and continuing development

Work with other disciplines to help understand how to improve public health, including cancer prevention, through food, nutrition, and physical activity


Health professionals:

Prioritise public health including cancer prevention, and food, nutrition, and physical activity, in core training, practice, and professional development

Take a lead in educating and working with colleagues, other professionals, and other actors to improve public health including cancer prevention

Involve people as family and community members, and take account of their personal characteristics in all types of professional practice


  1. Health professionals include relevant academics and researchers, and physicians, nutritionists, dietitians, nurses, and other health workers in medicine, public health, environmental health, and associated fields. Other professionals include architects and engineers, relevant civil servants, trades unionists, social scientists, economists, environmentalists, agronomists, food scientists and technologists, journalists, and teachers.


For more details see CHAPTER 8 of the Policy Report



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