Policy Report Recommendations
The Policy Report, Policy and Action for Cancer Prevention, features recommendations aimed at 9 groups of actors. These are policy-makers and decision-takers at all levels, from global and national to local. The actors are listed below.
Click on each actor to see the recommendations for that group.
CHAPTER 8 of the report features the recommendations in detail.
MULTINATIONAL BODIES
Aim: Originate and promote coordinated strategies that protect public health through food, nutrition, and physical activity
CIVIL SOCIETY ORGANISATIONS
Aim: Create, advocate, and develop sustainable policies and actions that ensure healthy food, nutrition, and physical activity for all
GOVERNMENT
Aim: Use legislation, pricing, and other policies at all levels of government to promote healthy patterns of diet and physical activity
INDUSTRY
Aim: Emphasise the priority given to public health including cancer prevention in strategic planning and action
MEDIA
Aim: Sustain increased coverage of public health and well-being and prevention of obesity and chronic diseases including cancer
SCHOOLS
Aim: Make food systems, food, nutrition, and regular physical activity essential parts of school life and learning
WORKPLACES AND INSTITUTIONS
Aim: Institute and implement policies that promote physical activity, and healthy meals and bodyweight
HEALTH AND OTHER PROFESSIONALS
Aim: Conduct professional practice to realise the potential for promoting health including cancer prevention
PEOPLE
Aim: Act as members of households and communities and as citizens, not just as customers and consumers, in achieving healthy ways of life