Holding no-one back: The Nutrition Equity Framework in theory and practice.

ABSTRACT: Equity remains poorly conceptualised in current nutrition frameworks and policy approaches. We draw on existing literatures to present a novel Nutrition Equity Framework (NEF) that can be used to identify priorities for nutrition research and action. The framework illustrates how social and political processes structure the food, health and care environments most important to nutrition. Central to the framework are processes of unfairness, injustice and exclusion as the engine of nutrition inequity across place, time and generations, ultimately influencing both nutritional status and people's space to act. The NEF illustrates conceptually how action on the socio-political determinants of nutrition is the most fundamental and sustainable way of improving nutrition equity for everyone everyw

SUBMITTER: Nisbett N 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9983632 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature