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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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National Family Health Survey (NFHS-4), India, 2019-21: West Bengal

International Institute for Population Sciences (IIPS) and ICF (2022) C2

June 2021

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Mental Health for Health Workers

Wesern Cape Government, South Africa; PACK (2021) CC

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simple definitions for keywords about blood-borne viruses and sexual health

Multicultural Health & Support Service (2015) C2

The BBV/STI Glossary is a resource for interpreters, translators and others who work in a health setting. It offers an extensive list of English terms related to sexual health and blood-borne viruses (such as hepatitis), with easy to understand definitions. Accessed 13th of November 2015.

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Health care workers and infection prevention and control (IPC) for respiratory infectious diseases: Implementation considerations

Cochrane Library (2020) C1

Review Summary

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Facilitator's Training Guide for a Stigma-Free Health Facility

R. Kidd; S. Clay; M. Stockton; et al. USAID From the American People; PEPFAR; Health Policy Project (2015) C2

Policy June 2015 Training Menus, Facilitation Tips, and Participatory Training Modules

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Health Problems and Health Care Seeking Behaviour of Rohingya Refugees

Y. Arafat, R.Kabir, A.A.Masud (2017) CC

DOI10.5281/zenodo.344972

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Adolescent HIV Care and Treatment: A Training Curriculum for Health Workers . Module 14 Presentation Manual

ICAP; CDC; University Teaching Hospital, et al. (2011)

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Ebola Virus Disease: Occupational Safety and Health

World Health Organization (2014)

Joint WHO/ILO Briefing Note for Workers and Employers updated 5 September 2014

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Orientation Programme on Adolescent Health for Health-care Providers - Handout

World Health Organization (WHO); Department of Child Health and Adolescent Health (CAH) World Health Organization (WHO); Department of Child Health and Adolescent Health (CAH) (2020) C_WHO

Handout New Modules Accessed: 09.03.2020

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Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak: rights,roles and responsibilities of health workers, including key considerations for occupational safety and health

World Health Organization WHO (2020) C_WHO

Health workers are at the front line of the COVID-19 outbreak response and as such are exposed to hazards that put them at risk of infection. Hazards include pathogen exposure, long working hours, psychological distress, fatigue, occupational burnout, stigma, and physical and psychological violence.... more

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The failure of community-based health insurance schemes in Tanzania: opening the black box of the implementation process

Kigume, R.; Maluka, S. (2021) CC2

Globally, there is increased advocacy for community-based health insurance (CBHI) schemes. Like other low and middle-income countries (LMICs), Tanzania officially established the Community Health Fund (CHF) in 2001 for rural areas; and Tiba Kwa Kadi (TIKA) for urban population since 2009. This study... more

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Zimbabwe Demographic and Health Survey 2010-11

Zimbabwe National Statistics Agency (Z IMSTAT) and ICF International. 20 (2012) C1

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HeRAMS Health Resources Availability Mapping System: A quick presentation

World Health Organization (2009)

A short presentaion of HeRAMS

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National, State and Union Territory, and District Fact Sheets - 2015-16 India National Family Health Survey (NFHS-4)
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Government of India; Ministry of Health and Family Welfare (2016) C1

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National Family Health Survey (NFHS-4), India, 2015-16: Haryana

International Institute for Population Sciences (IIPS) and ICF (2017) C2

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Mental Health Toolkit
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Evangelia Kampouri, Shyma Jundi, Nida Sheriff et al. Chayn (2015) C2

While working with survivors and victims of domestic abuse, we have learned that many people who have experienced abuse or trauma in their lives also experience mental health issues as a direct effect of what they have been through. This is why Chayn has created a Mental Health Toolkit available fo... more

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State and Union Territory and District Fact Sheets - 2015-16 National Family Health Survey (NFHS-4)

DHS India (2016) C1

Please download the district fact sheets directly for each state/union territory at the website: http://dhsprogram.com/publications/publication-OF31-Other-Fact-Sheets.cfm