A five-year campaign to increase access to healthy foods started in 1990 and led by the Department of Health in Western Australia and industry groups had mixed success. By also creating community programs that provide food and transport services to families that live within a 1,600 meter radius of a grocery store. And also focusing on prevention of diabetes and diabetes management. The minor health effects that can come from not having sustainable food options can be childhood obesity and even health issues like asthma. Although long-term health effects can come from the minor health problems like heart disease caused from the obesity and type 2 diabetes. And if these bad habits continue unchanged a person effected by these disease could die prematurely. The department later developed a new private/public partnership to address access and consumption of fruit and vegetables. A 2008 audit found some progress generated as a result in incentive's fruit and vegetable access, but no headway in identifying and addressing any supply issues in development planning or elucidating cost, quality and access issues for remote, rural and urban areas.
