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Minimum standards and guidelines on actions to protect children from the harmful impact of marketing of food and non-alcoholic beverages in the ASEAN region

This report outlines the minimum standards and guidelines for ASEAN Member States to protect children from the harmful impacts of food and non-alcoholic beverage marketing. It also includes a rationale for strengthening legislation, guidelines for developing, implementing, enforcing, and monitoring legislation, and an overview of existing unhealthy food marketing regulations in the region.

Ministry of Health Strategic Plan 2019 - 2023 Investing For Our Future

5 Strategic Goals Excellence in health care services Prevention and Control of Non communicable diseases Protection of public health through effective policies and regulations Sustainability through resource optimization and innovation Transparent and Proactive Governance

Healthy Choices logo

A healthy choice logo allowing consumers to easily identify healthy products (lower in fat, sat fat, salt and sugar). Specific nutrient criteria defines whether the product can display the logo.

NCD Country Profiles 2018 (Obesity Targets)

The profiles also provide data on the key metabolic risk factors, namely raised blood pressure, raised blood glucose and obesity and National Targets on Obesity (as of 2017)

SSB excise tax

Tax of 4 Brunei dollars/10mL for beverages containing >6g sugar per 100ml.

Action Plan to Reduce the Double Burden of Malnutrition in the Western Pacific Region (2015–2020)

The WHO action plan to reduce the double burden of malnutrition in the Western Pacific Region. It calls for accelerated efforts to improve nutrition. The plan includes targets to halt the increase in childhood overweight and adult and adolescent diabetes and obesity by 2025.

Healthy Weight for Life Unit

Healthy Weight For Life Unit supports the capacity to address public health in all policies and facilitate effective and sustainable interventions to support healthy eating and active living. The Unit provides support including implementation and evaluation guidance, technical assistance, training, surveillance and applied research, translation and dissemination, and partnership development to relevant stakeholders, communities and partners to implement policy, intervention, and environmental strategies. Our mandate is to improve the population’s dietary status, physical activity and reduce prevalence of obesity across all ages and settings including workplaces, hospitals, healthcare facilities, schools, and communities.

National Strategy for Maternal, Infant and Young Child Nutrition (MIYCN) in Brunei Darussalam 2014-2020

To increase exclusive breastfeeding rate for the first 6 months up 50% by 2020 • To achieve zero increase in childhood obesity and overweight by 2020 • To reduce the prevalence of anaemia in pregnant women by 2020 • To achieve zero increase in the rate of low birth weight by 2020 • To halt childhood stunting by 2020

Brunei Darussalam National Multisectoral Action Plan for the Prevention and Control of Noncommunicable Diseases (BruMAP-NCD)

The National Multisectoral Action Plan comprises of 5 key strategic actions: i) reducing tobacco use ii) promoting a balanced and healthy diet iii) increasing physical activity iv) effective identification and management of people at high risk of NCDs v) improving the quality of care and outcome of NCDs managementt

National Physical Activity Guidelines for Brunei Darussalam

Public Health (Food) Act 2001

Guidelines outlining labelling of foods

GNPR 2016-17 (q7) Breastfeeding promotion and/or counselling

WHO Global Nutrition Policy Review 2016-2017 reported the evidence of breastfeeding promotion and/or counselling (q7)

National Sport Policy

National Physical Activity Policy. (Available only in Malay language)