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„ Healthy eating from the start “ A health promotion programme for pregnant and breastfeeding women and children up to 3 years of age. Partners. Austrian Agency for Health and Food Safety (AGES ) Federal Ministry of Health Main Association of Austrian Social Security Institutions. - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
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„Healthy eating from the start“A health promotion programme for pregnant and breastfeeding women and children up to 3 years of age
Partners
• Austrian Agency for Health and Food Safety (AGES) • Federal Ministry of Health• Main Association of Austrian Social Security Institutions
Background
• Children’s food preferences can already be influenced by the mother‘s diet during pregnancy and lactation
• A well balanced diet and good eating habits are important due to their health-promoting and preventive potentials (throughout the life course)
• Target-group-specific and environment-oriented measures are needed to reduce the prevalence of nutrition- and lifestyle-associated diseases
Aims
Improvement of the dietary habits and the food environment of pregnant and breastfeeding women and
children up to the age of 3 years
Methods
• Austrian wide action plan (based on national and international models of good practice and appropriate intervention strategies)
• providing latest scientific knowledge for the public and experts
• putting the scientific knowlege into practice in a target-group-specific way
• exchanging information between national and international projects
macro (social and legal regulations)
meso (setting, environment and communities)
Micro (families and individuals)
tailored actions and
activities on 3 levels
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Examples for implementation
Scientific research/publications for expertsPublications for the target-groupsWorkshops
Scientific research /publications for experts
• Systematic review on health effects of cow´s milk consumption in infants up to 3 years of age
• Evaluation of the labelling of complementary food products
• Austrian guidelines on complementary feeding - scientifically grounded, quality assured and agreed with experts
• Currently in progress: development of scientifically grounded and quality assured guidelines on nutrition of 1- to 3-year-old toddlers
Publications for the target-groups (examples)
• Brochure on complementary feeding intended for parents and other carers, also available in Turkish and Bosnian-Croatian-Serb language
• Information graphics on infant nutrition in the first year of life
Workshops
• Workshops on nutrition in pregnancy and lactation and workshops on complementary feeding - implemented successfully Austrian wide
• Train the trainer programmes (dieticians, nutritionists, doctors, midwifes)
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Further information
http://www.richtigessenvonanfangan.at/