Universität Wien

330070 SE Seminar in Public Health Nutrition-EU Basics (2018S)

Continuous assessment of course work

Lehrveranstaltung für Masterstudium

Voraussetzung für Masterstudierende:
positiver Abschluss der Vorlesung: Health Monitoring in Europa, Fallstudien

Im Falle einer Verhinderung an der Teilnahme ist eine ABMELDUNG INNERHALB DER ABMELDEFRIST UNBEDINGT ERFORDERLICH, da bei unentschuldigtem Fernbleiben eine negative Bewertung erfolgt.
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Registration/Deregistration

Note: The time of your registration within the registration period has no effect on the allocation of places (no first come, first served).

Details

max. 25 participants
Language: German

Lecturers

Classes (iCal) - next class is marked with N

  • Thursday 08.03. 15:00 - 17:15 Friedrich Becke Seminarraum 2C315 3.OG UZA II
  • Thursday 12.04. 14:00 - 19:15 Friedrich Becke Seminarraum 2C315 3.OG UZA II
  • Thursday 19.04. 14:00 - 19:15 Friedrich Becke Seminarraum 2C315 3.OG UZA II
  • Thursday 21.06. 15:00 - 15:45 Seminarraum 2E562 Ernährungswissenschaften UZA II

Information

Aims, contents and method of the course

Learning Outcomes:
- Students gain insight into cutting edge topics in the area of EU’s food policy and engage into discussions
- Students are able to perform a systematic literature search in scientific databases and media articles
- Students are able to extract content from the aforementioned literature search
- Students improve skills in presenting and summarizing findings from scientific and media articles by autonomously providing a structured talk and term paper

Content:
date marking and food waste; dual food quality; ultra-processed food and cancer risk; EFSA intake of added sugar consultation; effects of “high in” labels on food reformulation; French Nutri-Score front-of-pack labelling; EU country of origin labelling rules; EU bans of disease reduction claims; mislabeling and banned claims on food supplements; EU labeling and prevalence of food allergies; new EU BPA migration rules; recent EU novel food applications; recent objectives against GMOs; new EU antimicrobial resistance action plan; food chain affected by plastic fibres in tap water around the world; Brexit winners and Brexit losers amongst the UK food industry; recommendations derived from recent insights into personalized nutrition; heavy metals in seaweed; tropane alkaloids in baby food; discussion on food-consumer implications of trade partnerships

Method:
Seminar

Assessment and permitted materials

Evaluation of the presentation, discussion, and term paper

Minimum requirements and assessment criteria

treshold to pass: 60%

Examination topics

Seminar

Reading list

Literatur
Trübswasser U, Branca F (2008). Nutrition policy is taking shape in Europe. Public Health Nutrition: 12(3), 295-306.
WHO (2010): Interim first report on social determinants of health and the health divide in the WHO European region. WHO regional office for Europe, Copenhagen.

Association in the course directory

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