7th Annual Canadian Nutrition Society Food for Health Workshop (CNS) 2017
congress program
Location : Montréal, Quebec
Country : Canada
Language : FR
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Specialities : General Medicine , Allergology And Immunology , Endocrinology And Metabolism , Geriatrics , Internal Medicine , Pediatrics , Psychiatry
Nudging Knowledge into Action:
Behavioural Economics and Cost Benefit Analysis in Food, Agriculture and Health Systems
Objectives:
- Gain an understanding of behavioural economics and how this emerging field combining psychology and economics influences knowledge mobilization in nutrition, agriculture and health research, and potential strategies to further the food for health agenda through these approaches.
- Explore opportunities to transfer our food and agriculture knowledge into health policy and interventions via cost-benefit analysis and behavioural economics.
- Examine the various pulls and pushes that influence decisions at consumer, institution and whole food system levels.
- Determine opportunities and limitations of economic approaches to food, agriculture and health research.