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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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Coordinated public health surveillance between points of entry and national health surveillance systems

World Health Organization (2014)

Advising principles. The purpose of this document is to support competent authorities in charge of IHR implementation to improve national capacities for the prevention, detection and control of events, by strengthening communications and coordination between points of entry and the national health s... more

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Development of primary health care nursing in Ukraine

World Health Organization WHO, Regional Office of Europe (2021) C_WHO

Nurses play a key role in the provision of primary health care (‎PHC)‎ and the coordination and organization of medical care overall. Nurses are often the first point of contact with the health system and have an important role to play in leaving no one behind. Large-scale reform of PHC in Uk... more

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Climate Change, Health, and Equity: A Guide For Local Health Departments

Rudolf,L-; C. Harrison et al. Public Health Institute (2018) CC

This 400 page guide, created by PHI’s Center for Climate Change and Health and the American Public Health Association (APHA), with support from the California Department of Public Health helps local health departments prepare for and mitigate climate change effects—from drought and heat to flood... more

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National Tele-Mental Health Guidelines

Ministry of Health, Kenya (2021) CC

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Operational Framework for Primary Health Care - Transforming Vision Into Action

World Health Organization WHO (2020) C_WHO

Primary health care, as outlined in the 1978 Declaration of Alma-Ata and again 40 years later in the 2018 WHO/UNICEF document A vision for primary health care in the 21st century: towards universal health coverage and the Sustainable Development Goals, is a whole-of-government and whole-of-society a... more

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A grounded view of community-based child protection mechanisms and their linkages with the wider child protection system in three rural and urban areas in Kenya

Wessells, M., Kostelny, K., and Ondoro, K. Save the Children (2014) CC

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Male Involvement in Maternal Health Care as a Determinant of Utilization of Skilled Birth Attendants in Kenya

Mageni, Judith Nekesa, Ann Mwagni, Samwel Mbugua, and Vincent Mukthar ICF International (2013) C1

DHS Working Papers No. 93

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Health situation update in Ukraine

World Health Organization WHO (2022) C_WHO

Report by the Director-General 22 May 2022

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HIV/TB Module for Health Care Workers

National AIDSControl (NACO), Government of India; Ministry of Health and Family Welfare; Central TB Division (2016) C1

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Mental health systems in selected low- and middle-income countries: a WHO-AIMS cross-national analysis

World Health Organization WHO WHO (2009) C_WHO

Data on the essential building blocks of mental health systems, including mental health governance, financing, service delivery, human resources and information, are reported. For mental health planning, it is important to know not only the level of resources in these six areas, but also how thos... more

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National Strategy on Ending Child Marriage in Zambia 2016-2021

Republic of Zambia, Ministry of Gender (2015) C1

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Sexual Reproductive Health of Women Living HIV/AIDS

World Health Organization; UNFPA (2006)

Guidelines on care, treatment and support for women living with HIV/AIDS and their children in resource-constrained settings

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HEALTH POLICY PROJECT ETHIOPIA: Building capacity for improved health policy, advocacy, governance, and finance

U.S. Agency for International Development, Health Policy Project (2015) C1

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Kenya Mental Health Policy 2015-2030

Ministry of Health, Kenya (2017) C1

Towards Attaining the Highest Standard of Mental Health

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Indonesia Demographic and Health Survey 2012: Adolescent Reproductive Health

Statistics Indonesia (Badan Pusat Statistik—BPS), National Population and Family Planning Board (BKKBN), Kementerian Kesehatan (Kemenkes—MOH), and ICF International (2013) C2

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Ethiopia's community-based health insurance: A step on the road to Universal Health Coverage

USAID; Health Finance & Governance (2015) C1

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WHO QualityRights Tool Kit Assessing and improving quality and human rights in mental health and social care facilities

World Health Organization WHO WHO (2012) C_WHO

The aim of the WHO QualityRights tool kit is to support countries in assessing and improving the quality and human rights of their mental health and social care facilities. The tool kit is based on an extensive international review by people with mental disabilities and their organizations. It ha... more

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Interim Infection Prevention and Control Guidance for Care of Patients with Suspected or Confirmed Filovirus Haemorrhagic Fever in Health-Care Settings, with Focus on Ebola
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World Health Organization (2014)

This document provides a summary of infection control recommendations when providing direct and non-direct care to patients with suspected or confirmed Filovirus haemorrhagic fever (HF), including Ebola or Marburg haemorrhagic fevers. These recommendations are interim and will be updated when additi... more

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Health system considerations: when influenza meets COVID-19: preparedness and response measures when COVID-19, influenza and acute respiratory infections coincide in the WHO European Region

World Health Organization WHO, Regional Office of Europe (2020) C_WHO

revised version December 2020

Interim Infection Prevention and Control Guidance for Care of Patients with Suspected or Confirmed Filovirus Haemorrhagic Fever in Health-Care Settings, with Focus on Ebola recommended

Interim Infection Prevention and Control Guidance for Care of Patients with Suspected or Confirmed Filovirus Haemorrhagic Fever in Health-Care Settings, with Focus on Ebola
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