Journal of Nutrition & Food Sciences
Open Access

A social marketing perspective on public health nutrition and food policy

8^th International Conference on Clinical Nutrition

December 08-10, 2016 Dubai, UAE

Patricia Gurviez

AgroParisTech, France

Scientific Tracks Abstracts: J Nutr Food Sci

Abstract :

Since decades, public authorities sought to fight obesity and chronic food-related diseases. These attempts included economic measures, such as fat tax or more affordable fruit and vegetables, legal measures, such as forbidding energy dense foods at schools and informational campaigns targeted to a broad audience or high-risk populations. The accessibility to non-biased nutrition information (i.e., independent of commercial purposes) has become a crucial issue. Namely, the responsibility of fat and sweet products advertising on TV has been questioned by numerous research programs. These results led a lot of countries to limit TV advertising, especially to young audience. In 2007, France adopted a unique model, by mixing both legal rules restricting food advertising and incitement for firms to increase the nutritional quality of their food products. The aims of these measures were to improve both consumersâ�?�? attitudes and food choices. Unfortunately, obesity is still growing and studies show that although the awareness of â�?�?5 a dayâ�? claims is high, there is no change in most food behaviors. We intend to assess this topic from a social marketing point of view. The purpose of social marketing is to improve peopleâ�?�?s well-being. It recommends setting up more efficient public programs by using marketing strategies and techniques rather than pursuing a mere objective of information. In peculiar, we intend to study the impact of previous campaigns not only in France but at an international level, to draw conclusions and bring improvements which could get better and more targeted results.

Biography :

Patricia Gurviez has completed her PhD in 1998 from Université Aix-Marseille, France and became an Associate Professor in Marketing at AgroparisTech, Paris, France. Since 2012, she is full a Professor in Marketing and Consumer Behavior. She has published more than 25 papers in reputed journals. She has been a Member of the Board of the annual French Austrian German workshop on Consumer Behavior since 2011 and has been serving as an Editorial Board Member of Decisions Marketing since 2006. She is currently In-Charge of the 2017 special issue on consumption and well-being. Her main topics are food consumption and public health policies.

Email: patricia.gurviez@agroparistech.fr