caa a22 4500 386395098 CHVBK 20180307112135.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161130e198904 xx s 000 0 eng 10.1017/S0047279400017402 doi S0047279400017402 pii (NATIONALLICENCE)cambridge-10.1017/S0047279400017402 Wilson Gail Lecturer in Social Policy and the Elderly, Department of Social Science and Administration, London School of Economics. Family Food Systems, Preventive Health and Dietary Change: A Policy to Increase the Health Divide [Elektronische Daten] [Gail Wilson] Any preventive policy depends on a set of beliefs which will determine the point and method of intervention in a causative chain of events. In the case of heart disease, diet is seen as a causative factor. Prevention therefore demands a change in national diet. However, policy makers can view diet primarily as a matter of individual responsibility and preferences, or as a reflection of social structures. The individual approach emphasises health education. On the other hand, if dietary change is seen as related to structural factors such as income distribution, the division of resources within households and the power of the food industry, preventive policy must take different forms. The paper analyses food Systems in 61 inner city households in terms of gender, health beliefs, family preferences and status. The findings are compared with the results of large scale surveys. The conclusion is that health education needs to be more specifically directed at men but, more importantly, that a policy which ignores the structural features which limit individual capability for change will inevitably increase the health divide between rich and poor. Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1989 Journal of Social Policy Cambridge University Press 18/2(1989-04), 167-185 0047-2794 18:2<167 1989 18 JSP https://doi.org/10.1017/S0047279400017402 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1017/S0047279400017402 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Wilson Gail Lecturer in Social Policy and the Elderly, Department of Social Science and Administration, London School of Economics NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Journal of Social Policy Cambridge University Press 18/2(1989-04), 167-185 0047-2794 18:2<167 1989 18 JSP CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-cambridge