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Public food has undergone a rapid transition over the past decades. Due to its significance as an important arena for promoting good health and sustainability and its ability to contribute to the prevention of disease public foodservice is now increasingly a topic for both research and for policymaking. The paper will take the notion of foodscapes as a point of departure and apply this concept to hospital settings. Foodscape studies (Mikkelsen, 2011) has developed over the past decades to become a rich field of research that understands the backstage dimension of hospital food in the kitchen as well as the front‐ and midstage dimensions in which patients encounter food, meals and snacks as a part of the food and nutritional care at hospital. The paper gives a brief account of undernutrition at hospital, recent policy actions as well as novel technologies to counteract it (Ofei et al, 2015). It will look at how sourcing of both services and dietary and preference data can embrace co‐constructive methods in which the traditional universe of welfare is extended to involve patients and relatives (Justesen el al, 2014). It will cover recent examples of new cross professional approaches can be used to optimize food and nutritional care processes. Finally the paper will look future research needs for hospital food and nutritional care.

Period	23 Oct 2015 → 24 Oct 2015
Event title	EFAD Conference: Dietitians meeting the Food and Nutrition Action Plan
Event type	Conference
Conference number	9th
Location	Amsterdam, NetherlandsShow on map