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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
  • Physicians, nutritionists, dietitians, nurses
  • 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
  • Teachers

For more details see Chaper 8 of the Policy Report, which can be accessed in our resource downloads section.