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Influencing food environments for healthy diets

Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO (2016) C2

Food environments are usually defined as the settings with all the different types of food made available and accessible to people as they go about their daily lives. That is, the range of food in supermarkets, small retail outlets, wet markets, street food stalls, coffee shops, tea houses, s...chool canteens, restaurants, and all the other venues where people buy and eat food. These environments differ enormously depending on the context. They can be extensive and diverse, with a seemingly endless array of options and price ranges, or they can be sparse, with very few options on offer. Because they determine what food consumers can access at a given moment in time, at what price, and with what degree of convenience, food environments both constrain and prompt the consumer’s choice.Food environments are influenced by the food systems which supply them, and vice versa. Food systems encompass the entire range of activities, people and institutions involved in the production, processing, marketing, consumption and disposal of food (FAO, 2013). They include but are not limited to food supply chains. Making food systems nutrition-sensitive can contribute to addressing all forms of malnutrition, as food systems determine whether the food needed for good nutrition are available, affordable, acceptable and of adequate quantity and quality. How closely food systems and food environments are interrelated and interdependent, and the degree to which external factors affect nutrition outcomes, varies from setting to setting.Many of today’s food systems and food environments are challenged in supporting consumer choices that are consistent with healthy diets and good nutrition. Consumers are not making choices based on nutrition and health, and poor diet is now the number one risk factor for death and disability worldwide (GBD, 2015). Food systems that do not enable healthy diets are increasingly recognized as an underlying cause of malnutrition (GLOPAN, 2016), and malnutrition, irrespective of form, has a huge cost. Economic costs associated with undernutrition are estimated at $1-2 trillion per year, about 2-3% of global GDP (FAO, 2013); the global economic cost of obesity and associated diet-related non-communicable diseases is estimated at $2 trillion per year, about 2.8% of global GDP (McKinsey, 2014). Influencing food environments for promoting healthy diets is an emerging strategy to address today’s nutrition challenges. more

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Selection of essential medicines for the prevention and treatment of cardiovascular diseases in low and middle income countries

Bazargani, Y.T.; Ugurlu, M.; Leufkens, H.G.M. et al. BMC Cardiovascular Disorders (2018) CC

The incidence and mortality of cardiovascular diseases (CVDs) in low and middle income countries (LMICs) have been increasing, while access to CVDs medicines is suboptimal. We assessed selection of essential medicines for the prevention and treatment of CVDs on national essential medicines lists (NE... more

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Evaluation of the first level of care for tuberculosis control in Buenos Aires, Argentina

J. Mariani, Ferrante D., Battistella G., et al. (2021) CC

Panam Salud Publica. 2021;45:e22. https://doi.org/10.26633/RPSP.2021.22

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Nutrition Guidelines
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Médecins sans Frontières (2006) C1

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Leprosy For Medical Practitioners and Paramedical Workers
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Yawalker, S. (2009) C1

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Latrine Design and Construction Part 1

Somalia WASH Cluster, ACTED, GSA, Save the Children, UNICEF, et al. (2020) CC

Somalia WASH Cluster Guidelines

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Zika Virus Infection - Step-by-Step Guide to Risk Communication and Community Engagement
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Pan American Health Association (PAHO); World Health Organization (WHO) (2017) C_WHO

This document provides Technical content on ZIKV, its manifestations, complications, modes of transmission, and prevention measures to be used in answering frequently asked questions and conveying messages in information and communication materials, community talks, press conferences, etc.

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Essential obstetric and newborn care
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Anne-Sophie Coutin, et al. Médecins sans Frontières MSF (2019) C1

Essential obstetric and newborn care is designed as a tool to help protect mothers and their children in adverse environments. It is intended for midwives, doctors with obstetrics training, and health care personnel who deal with obstetric emergencies.

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National Training on Antimalarial Pharmaceuticals Management Participants Manual

Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia -Ministry of Health Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia -Ministry of Health (2018) C1

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Kenya: Coast Province Mombasa - Informal Settlements, monitoring the situation of children and women

Kenya National Bureau of Statistics, UNICEF (2009)

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Traditional Medicine Policy for Nigeria

Federal Ministry of Health, Nigeria (2007) C1

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Vision impairment and blindness - Fact Sheet

World Health Organization (WHO) (2017) C_WHO

An estimated 253 million people live with vision impairment: 36 million are blind and 217 million have moderate to severe vision impairment. 81% of people who are blind or have moderate or severe vision impairment are aged 50 years and above

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Policy Brief 1 : Building a Dispensary Health Management Information System

Aga Khan Health Services, Kenya (2015)

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Field-friendly Guide to Integrate Emergency Obstetric Care in Humanitarian Programs

Women’s Commission for Refugee Women and Children Reproductive Health Response in Conflict Consortium (2005) C1

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Operational security management in violent environments

Humanitarian Practice Network (2010)

Good Practice Review

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Availability of the Health Resources and Services at Public Hospitals in Syria

World Health Organization (2013)

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Household Water Treatment Ceramic Filtration

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention CDC (2008) C_CDC

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Getting to know cerebral palsy
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International Centre for Evidence in Disability (ICED); London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM) ; CBM; et al. (2014)

Working with parent groups – a training resource for facilitators, parents, caregivers, and persons with cerebral palsy. TThis manual aims to increase knowledge and skills in caring for a child with cerebral palsy. Research highlighted the significant needs of the caregivers, and how they can gai... more