Children’s Rights, Childhood Obesity and Health Inequalities
2018
This article focuses on the relationship between unhealthy food marketing, obesity, health inequalities and children’s rights. In particular, it reflects on the extent to which a children’s rights-based approach to the regulation of unhealthy food marketing can promote more effective obesity- and non-communicable disease-prevention strategies and thus help reduce health inequalities. After establishing that food marketing increases health inequalities, it calls for the recognition that food marketing has become a major children’s rights concern that requires States to effectively implement the World Health Organization’s (WHO) Set of Recommendations on the Marketing of Foods and Non-Alcoholic Beverages to Children (WHO 2010a).
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