Objective
There is much to be gained from investing in better health in an increasingly integrated Europe. Yet the alarming increase in obesity prevalence represents a major threat to the future health of the citizens of Europe, justifying the high priority that obesity and its main determinants - inadequate nutrition and physical activity - have been given in EU health policies and action programmes. There is still much to be done, in terms of co-ordination of scientific, regulatory and policy issues, and in the provision of enhanced information.
This project brings together a multi-disciplinary team spanning a variety of key disciplines including as nutrition and physical activity research, public health, epidemiology, economics, and health policy, and covering all of Europe. Importantly, this team builds on established, successful, collaborative relationships. The project will work at two levels: overviews of issues across Europe; in-depth examination of sub-regional needs. The overviews will look at: lifestyle and environmental risk factors for obesity; previous, current, and planned policies to address obesity.
The project's programme of work integrates a wide range of complementary medium- to long-term activities that include: developing a common information system; establishing expert groups; producing targeted reviews of the literature; carrying out policy analysis including identifying the opportunities and limitations of policy transfer to and among EU countries; sharing and disseminating information and good practice through consultations, conferences and other forms of policy engagement. This project also incorporates a major element of policy engagement and dissemination.
Fields of science (EuroSciVoc)
CORDIS classifies projects with EuroSciVoc, a multilingual taxonomy of fields of science, through a semi-automatic process based on NLP techniques. See: The European Science Vocabulary.
CORDIS classifies projects with EuroSciVoc, a multilingual taxonomy of fields of science, through a semi-automatic process based on NLP techniques. See: The European Science Vocabulary.
- social sciences economics and business economics
- medical and health sciences health sciences public health epidemiology
- medical and health sciences health sciences nutrition obesity
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Keywords
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Project’s keywords as indicated by the project coordinator. Not to be confused with the EuroSciVoc taxonomy (Fields of science)
Programme(s)
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Topic(s)
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Call for proposal
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FP6-2005-SSP-5-A
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Funding Scheme
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Funding scheme (or “Type of Action”) inside a programme with common features. It specifies: the scope of what is funded; the reimbursement rate; specific evaluation criteria to qualify for funding; and the use of simplified forms of costs like lump sums.
Coordinator
LONDON
United Kingdom
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