The award was given by the Spanish Agency for Food Safety and Nutrition
The comprehensive plan for promoting healthy eating and physical activity in the municipality of Murcia 2008-2012.
Development strategy of the family and community health municipal services of the Department of Health and Social Welfare of the City of Murcia has been awarded the NAOS Strategy.
This is an award that is part of Naos Strategy Awards organized by the Spanish Agency for Food Safety and Nutrition under the Ministry of Health, Social Services and Equality.
The councilman of Social Welfare and Health, María del Carmen Pelegrin, expressed his great satisfaction at the concedoración received by the municipality of Murcia, it is not more nor less than "another example of that in Murcia we do things well and we increasingly concerned citizens of our municipality. "
"Health food is essential and therefore from the city of Murcia has long been working on developing such important initiatives as the plan, which is making great satisfaction not only to the City of Murcia, but a large number of Murcia and Murcia ".
Pelegrin also stressed that this award has been achieved through the work of all a professional each Municipal Health Service, who are actively working on an important project for everyone.
The comprehensive plan for promoting healthy eating and physical activity in the municipality of Murcia 2008-2012 is an ambitious project in which they established in order to improve the health of the population, sets general objectives:
- Reversing the upward trend in numbers of overweight in Murcia.
- Train and empower citizens to choose healthy lifestyles.
- To inform, sensitize, educate, advise and disseminate knowledge to translate the importance of the positive impact of healthy habits
- Gather information to categorize consumption pattern and be able to monitor the activities.
- Involve and mobilize society for the prevention of excess weight.
- Create programs to enable the effective deployment of the plan.
- Lead in the local community actions in this matter.
- To provide a framework for collaboration between different actors involved
Source: Ayuntamiento de Murcia