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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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STRATEGY FOR THE PREVENTION AND CONTROL OF OBESITY IN SOUTH AFRICA 2015–2020

Department of Health, Republic of South Africa (2016) C1

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Namibia: Surveillance Report of the 2016 National HIV Sentinel Survey

Ministry of Health and Social Services (MOHSS) (2016) C1

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Briefing booklet for Botswana Children’s Month of Broadcasting

UNICEF (2016)

Tune into Kids | UNICEF | United and proud for the next generation

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Hypertension. Screening, Diagnosis, Assessment, and Management of Primary Hypertension in Adults in India. Background Document

National Health Mission; Ministry of Health & Social Welfare India (2016) C1

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Lymphatic Filariasis and Podoconiosis morbidity management and disability prevention guidelines
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Ministry of Health Ethiopia (2016) CC

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Protection and Accountability to Affected Populations in the Humanitarian Programme Cycle: Preliminary Guidance Note

Inter-Agency Standing Committee Emergency Directors Group (EDG) IASC (2016) C3

This note sets out actions to be undertaken throughout the humanitarian programme cycle (HPC) to fulfill commitments on Accountability to Affected Populations (AAP) and to ensure that protection is central to humanitarian response. It sets out the fundamental link between accountability systems and ... more

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Topic Guide: Effective Post-disaster Reconstruction Programmes

Lloyd-Jones, Tony; Davis, Ian; Steele, Andre (2016) CC

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Opioid substitution therapy in Nepal

GIZ BMZ (2016) C1

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Implementing comprehensive HIV and STI programmes with transgender people: Practical guidance for collaborative interventions

UNDP, IRGT, UNFPA, UNAIDS, WHO, USAID, PEPFAR, UCSF Center of Excellence for Transgender Health, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health (2016) C1

This publication offers practical advice on implementing HIV and STI programmes for transgender people, with a focus on transgender women, aligned with the 2011 Recommendations and the 2014 Key Populations Consolidated Guidelines. It contains examples of good practice from around the world that may ... more

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Service Standards and Service Delivery Standards for the Health Sector

Republic of Uganda, Ministry of Health (2016) C1

The Ministry of Health has developed the first version of the Service Standards and Service Delivery Standards for the health sector in Uganda. The main objective is to provide a common understanding of what is expected by the public, service users and service providers in ensuring provision of cons... more

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Liberia: Malaria Operational Plan FY 2016

President's Malaria Initiative; USAID; CDC et al. (2016) C_CDC

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Lessons from the gender-based violence initiative in Tanzania

Kelsey Simmons, Zuki Mihyo and Lyn Messner The Strengthening High Impact Interventions for an AIDS-free Generation (AIDSFree) Project (2016) CC

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National Integrated Pesticides Management Policy for Sierra Leone

Ministry of Health and Sanitation Sierra Leone (2016) C_WHO

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Malawi Malaria Operational Plan FY2017

President’s Malaria Initiative, CDC, MCHIP, MCSP (2016) C1

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Migrants and refugees have rights!

Caritas (2016) C1

Impact of EU policies on accessing protection. The report highlights the tragedy hundreds of thousands of people face when seeking protection in Europe. Women, men and children escaping war, repression and violation of human rights often turn to Europe in the hope of finding a safe haven. But many a... more

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Uganda Malaria Operational Plan FY 2016

U.S. President's Malaria Initiative (PMI), CDC, USAID, et al. (2016) C_CDC

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Public expenditure for children with disabilities study report

Save the Children Albania Save the Children (2016) C1

Save the Children in Albania is establishing and strengthening structures and mechanisms which monitor and advocate for children’s rights, promote ways to protect children from all forms of exploitation and violence and also empower and support children and their representatives to meaningfully ad... more

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The Critical Role of the Staff Nurse in Antimicrobial Stewardship—Unrecognized, but Already There

Olans R. N. , R. D. Olans, A. DeMaria Jr Clinical Infectious Diseases (2016) C2

An essential participant in antimicrobial stewardship who has been unrecognized and underutilized is the“staff nurse.”Although the role of staff nurses has not formally been recognized in guidelines for implementing and operating antimicrobial stewardship programs (ASPs) or defined in the medica... more

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LACRO Zika Virus Humanitarian Situation Report, 16 March 2016

UNICEF (2016) C1

Lymphatic Filariasis and Podoconiosis morbidity management and disability prevention guidelines recommended

Lymphatic Filariasis and Podoconiosis morbidity management and disability prevention guidelines
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