Tag: digital food environments

Slide to order: a food systems approach to meal delivery apps

by Afton Halloran, posted in Dietary Shifts, digital food environments, Digitalization, Food Environment, Health, innovation, Noncommunicable diseases, Nutrition, Obesity, WHO, WHO Europe

Fresh off the press! Our newest WHO European Office for the Prevention and Control of Noncommunicable Diseases report is out! Meal delivery apps (‎MDAs)‎ are a rapidly growing part of the digital food environment in the WHO European Region. The implications of this multibillion Euro sector on health, nutrition, environment and society at large are … Continue reading Slide to order: a food systems approach to meal delivery apps

Digital food environments

by Afton Halloran, posted in Dietary Shifts, digital food environments, Digitalization, food policy, Health, Noncommunicable diseases, Nutrition, Obesity

The topic of digital food environments has been a core part of my work as consultant at the WHO Office for the Prevention and Control of Noncommunicable Diseases. Check out our newest factsheet on the topic! Digital food environments are the online settings through which flows of services and information that influence people’s food and … Continue reading Digital food environments

Future steps to tackle obesity

by Afton Halloran, posted in Childhood obesity, Conferences, Digitalization, Health, innovation, Obesity, WHO

Join us on 29 June for the “Future steps to tackle obesity – digital innovations into policy and actions” conference. This conference is co-organized by WHO/Europe and the Portuguese Ministry of Health. A major part of preventing non-communicable diseases (NCDs) is the capacity to develop a structural change in food environments. The widespread use of … Continue reading Future steps to tackle obesity