A Human Rights Approach to Childhood Obesity Prevention

Preventing Childhood Obesity: Evidence Policy and Practice

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 40-45

  Priest, Naomi ^a   Swinburn, Boyd ^b   Waters, Elizabeth ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b DEAKIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

A human rights approach childhood obesity prevention; Convention on the Rights of the Child 54 articles and Optional Protocols; Food advertising for children framing arguments against using a rights based discourse; Human rights and health and rights based approaches and public health issues; Human rights declarations childhood obesity application; Human rights incorporation into childhood obesity prevention; International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (IESCR) International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR); Rights based approaches addressing childhood obesity; UN Convention on Rights of the Child (UNCROC) rights to adequate food and rights to health

Indexed keywords

EID: 84886006459     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781444318517.ch5     Document Type: Chapter

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