The Wales Health Impact Assessment Support Unit (WHIASU), WHO CC Directorate for ‘Investment in Health and Well-being’ has today published a second short report which unpicks some of the cumulative impacts of Brexit, COVID-19 and climate change on health and wellbeing in Wales. Following on from ‘Rising to the Triple Challenge of Brexit, COVID-19 and Climate Change for health, well-being and equity in Wales’ this Spotlight Paper focuses on the topic of ‘Food Security’.
The paper highlights how the combined influences of Brexit, Coronavirus and climate change will potentially impact everyone through the food that is produced, accessed, available and consumed.
It forms part of a series of reports that highlight how this ‘triple challenge’ will have direct and indirect impacts on the health and wellbeing of the population and how the current point in time presents a ‘window of opportunity’ to strengthen public health messaging around healthy food behaviours with the increased profile which the Coronavirus pandemic has brought for public health and highlight the impact of food production, access and supply in respect to inequalities.