Autor según el artículo: Gracia-Arnaiz M

Departamento: Antropologia, Filosofia i Treball Social

Autor/es de la URV: Gracia Arnaiz, Maria Isabel

Palabras clave: Spain Sociocultural causality Public policy Obesity Economic crisis

Resumen: This article reports on a qualitative analysis of the measures proposed at the international level, but with a special focus on those adopted in Spain during the last decade. Analyzing biomedical definition of obesity as an epidemic and costly disease, this text aims is to unpack the conceptual structure of the obesity prevention model, and to reflect on the limitations of a top-down pattern of health education and communication in health that, focusing on individual aspects of lifestyles, has involved very little citizen participation in general, and less still by those diagnosed as overweight. In the process of translating international guidelines into national action plans, the effects of historical changes and socioeconomic interests have been largely ignored, and the symbolic and material needs of the stakeholders have gone unrecognized. The discussion considers the minor role attributed in public health policy to the food and eating as social practice, to the specific structural factors that have taken on greater importance during the economic crisis ¿ job insecurity, depressed wages, austerity measures ¿ and to the social determinants of the differential distribution of obesity ¿ social class, gender, ethnicity, age ¿ and suggests that this inattention to their impact may underlie the failure of these strategies to halt the apparently growing obesity rate.

Áreas temáticas: Sociology and political science Sociologia i política Planning & development Nutrition & dietetics Management, monitoring, policy and law Interdisciplinary research in the social sciences Interdisciplinar Geografía Food science & technology Food science Economics and econometrics Economics Economia Dret Development Ciencias sociales Antropologia / arqueologia Agricultural economics & policy

ISSN: 03069192

Direcció de correo del autor: mabel.gracia@urv.cat

Identificador del autor: 0000-0002-6429-6395

Fecha de alta del registro: 2023-07-31

Versión del articulo depositado: info:eu-repo/semantics/acceptedVersion

Enlace a la fuente original: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0306919217300258

URL Documento de licencia: http://repositori.urv.cat/ca/proteccio-de-dades/

Referencia al articulo segun fuente origial: Food Policy. 68 65-76

Referencia de l'ítem segons les normes APA: Gracia-Arnaiz M (2017). Taking measures in times of crisis: The political economy of obesity prevention in Spain. Food Policy, 68(), 65-76. DOI: 10.1016/j.foodpol.2017.01.001

DOI del artículo: 10.1016/j.foodpol.2017.01.001

Entidad: Universitat Rovira i Virgili

Año de publicación de la revista: 2017

Tipo de publicación: Journal Publications