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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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The public health playbook: ideas for challenging the corporate playbook

Lacy-Nicholas, J.; Marten, R.; Crosbie, E.; Moodie,R. The Lancet Global Health (2022) CC

Lancet Glob Health 2022 Published Online May 24, 2022 https://doi.org/10.1016/S2214-109X(22)00185-1 Many commercial actors use a range of coordinated and sophisticated strategies to protect business interests— their corporate playbook—but many of these strategies come at the expense of public h... more

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The Evolution of Official Development Assistance

Hynes W.; Scott S. OECD (2013) CC

The definition of Official Development Assistance (ODA) has for 40 years been the global standard for measuring donor efforts in supporting development co-operation objectives. It has provided the yardstick for documenting the volume and the terms of the concessional resources provided, assessing do... more

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Voluntary non-remunerated blood donations to ensure blood safety in the WHO South-East Asia Region to support universal health coverage

World Health Organisation (WHO) (2023) C_WHO

Access to safe blood and blood products is recognized as one of the key requirements for delivery of modern health care in the journey towards health for all. The foundation of safe and sustainable blood supplies depends on the collection of blood from voluntary non-remunerated and low-risk donors. ... more

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Community Approaches to Child Health in Cameroon: Applying the Community-based Integrated Management of Childhood Illness (C-IMCI) Framework

USAID, core group, PLAN (2009) 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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A Guide to Psychological First Aid

The International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies IFRC (2018) C2

PFA for Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies has several parts that can be used separately or together. It comprises this guide, a small booklet on PFA, and four training modules on PFA. This guide has general information about psychological first aid. It can be used on its own for psycho-education ... more

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Understanding the challenges of disability in Myanmar

Bawi, Salai Vanni (2012) C1

This predominantly qualitative research on disability and development in Myanmar was conducted between August 2011 and February 2012, in three commercial centres of Yangon, Mandalay and Taunggyi. Stakeholders of service providers, persons with disabilities (PWDs) and families of disabled people were... more

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Specialised Assessment and Treatment for Post-disaster Psychiatric Morbidity: Level 3 Interventions

NSW Health and University of Western Sydney (2017) CC

NSW Disaster Mental Health Handbook 5 The Disaster Mental Health Manual and associated handbooks are intended as a resource for mental health staff who are seeking background information and practical guidance and resources to assist in a disaster mental health response.

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UNICEF Mozambique Cyclone Situation Report #8 (01 - 08 May 2019)

UNICEF (2019)

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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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Response to Ebola Virus Disease (EVD)

Vitillo, B. Caritas Internationalis (2014)

Guidelines for planning and provision of pastoral and social support services

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Guidelines to reduce stigma Guide 4: Counselling to reduce stigma

ILEP International Federation of Anti-Leprosy Associations (2011)

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Integrated HIV Program Report January-March 2016

Government of Malawi, Ministry of Health (2016) C1

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National disaster management guidelines. Management of biological disasters

Ministry of Health and Social Welfare, Government of India (2008) C1

The intent of these guidelines is to develop a holistic, coordinated, proactive and technology driven strategy for management of biological disasters through a culture of prevention, mitigation and preparedness to generate a prompt and effective response in the event of an emergency. Th... more

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Attraction and Retention of Rural Primary Health-care Workers in the Asia Pacific Region

Liu Xiaoyun; Zhu, Anna; Tang, Shenglan World Health Organization, Regional Office for South-East Asia (2018) C_WHO

The Asia Pacific Observatory on Health Systems and Policies is a collaborative partnership which supports and promotes evidence-based health policy making in the Asia Pacific Region. Based in WHO’s Regional Office for South-East Asia, it brings together governments, international agencies, foundat... more

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Post-2015 Disaster Risk Reduction framework. Policy brief

Christoffel-Blindenmission (CBM) (2014)

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The ‘global health’ education framework: a conceptual guide for monitoring, evaluation and practice

Bozorgmehr, K.; VA.Saint, and P. Tinnemann (2011) CC

Global Health. 2011 Apr 18;7:8. doi: 10.1186/1744-8603-7-8 Results: Currently, ‘new’health challenges and educational needs as a result of the globalisation process are discussed and linked to the evolving term‘global health’. The lack of a common definition of this termcomplicates attempts... more

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The Burden of Orphans and Vulnerable Children Due to HIV/AIDS in Cameroon

D. S. Nsagha; A.-C. ZK Bissek; S. M. Nsagha; et al. The Open AIDS Journal; PubMed (2012) CC

The Open AIDS Journal, 2012, 6, 245-258

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UNAIDS Data 2018

UNAIDS (2018) C2

UNAIDS 2018 reference