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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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Forecast analysis of any opportunistic infection among HIV positive individuals on antiretroviral therapy in Uganda

Rubaihayo, J., N.M. Tumwesigye, J. Konde-Lule, et al. BMC Public Health (2016) CC

BMC Public Health (2016) 16:766 DOI 10.1186/s12889-016-3455-5

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Immunological Interactions of Tuberculosis with Drugs and Substance Use: A Systematic Review and Update

N. G. Kiobi, S. N. Nebere, J. K. Karanja (2016) CC

Journal of Pulmonary & Respiratory Medicine 6: 326. doi:10.4172/2161-105X.1000326

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Eradicating polio in Pakistan: an analysis of the challenges and solutions to this security and health issue

Shoaib Fahad Hussai, Peter Boyle, Preeti Patel and Richard Sullivan (2016)

Globalization and Health201612:63; DOI: 10.1186/s12992-016-0195-3

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Handbook on using the ECDC preparedness checklist tool to strengthen preparedness against communication disease outbreaks at migrant reception/detention centres

European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (2016) C1

The checklist tool described in this handbook is intended for EU/EEA public health authorities who need to assess the capacity for communicable disease prevention and control at migrant reception/detention centres hosting migrants for weeks/months (medium-term) in order to identify gaps and set prio... more

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Zambia: GENERAL GUIDELINES FOR SUBMITTING APPLICATIONS FOR REGISTRATION OF A MEDICINE

Zambia Medicines Regulatory Authority (ZAMRA) (2016) C2

First Edition

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Gardening in sacks - A technique of vertical agriculture

Andres A. Solidaritées international (2016) C2

You are currently intervening or wishing to intervene in a dense urban context to respond to issues of food security and improve livelihood conditions? This handbook is for you! Following the evaluation of all of its sack-gardening projects, SOLIDARITÉS INTERNATIONAL (SI) wished to formalise... more

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Perspectives and Practice of Hiv Disclosure to Children and Adolescents by Health-Care Providers and Caregivers in sub-Saharan Africa: A Systematic Review

O. Aderomilehin; A. Hanciles-Amu; O. O. Ozoya Frontiers in Public Health (2016) CC

Review published: 12 August 2016 doi: 10.3389/fpubh.2016.00166 Frontiers in Public Health | www.frontiersin.org 1 August 2016 | Volume 4 | Article 166

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HIV status disclosure rate and reasons for non-disclosure among infected children and adolescents in Enugu, southeast Nigeria

A.C. Ubesie; K.K. Iloh; I.J. Emodi; et al. SAHARA-J: Journal of Social Aspects of HIVAIDS; Taylor & Francis Group (2016) CC

Journal of Social Aspects of HIV/AIDS VOL. 13 NO. 1 2016 To link to this article: https://doi.org/10.1080/17290376.2016.1226942

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Association between Zika virus infection and microcephaly in Brazil, January to May, 2016: preliminary report of a case-control study

Velho Barreto de Araújo, T.; et al. (2016)

THELANCETID-D-16-00800 S1473-3099(16)30318-8

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Integrated management of childhood illness (IMCI) strategy for children under five (Review)

Tarun Gera, Dheeraj Shah, Paul Garner et al. (2016) C2

Cochrane Database Syst Rev. 2016 Jul 1; (6): 1–61 -Published online 2016 July 1

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Nodding syndrome and epilepsy in onchocerciasis endemic regions: comparing preliminary observations from South Sudan and the Democratic Republic of the Congo with data from Uganda

R. Colebunders, A. Hendy, J.L. Mokili, et al. (2016) CC

BMC Res Notes (2016) 9:182 DOI 10.1186/s13104-016-1993-7

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Retention and mortality outcomes from a community-supported public–private HIV treatment programme in Myanmar

Mburu, Gitau; Aung Zayar Paing; Nwe Ni Myint et al. (2016) CC

Journal of the International AIDS Society 2016, 19:20926
There is a growing interest in the potential contribution the private sector can make towards increasing access to antiretroviral therapy (ART) in low‐ and middle‐income settings. This article describes a public–private partnership ... more

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Spiritual Needs and Care of Patients from Nurses’ Perspectives on ICU

Ku, Ya Lie Journal of Nursing Care (2016) C2

The semi-structured guided interviewing on ICU nurses in a medical center of southern Taiwan wasapproved by the IRB at the research department of the hospital and data collection was carried out from January toJune 2012. The investigator repeatedly read the transcribed text, and found statements rel... more

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Selective mutism

B. Oerbeck; K. Manassis; K. R. Overgaard; H. Kristensen IACAPAP (2016) C2

Anxiety disorders Chapter F.5

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Using antipsychotic medication for the treatment of schizophrenia in children and adolescents

M. Ferrin; H. Gosney; A. Marconi; J. M. Rey IACAPAP (2016) C2

Other disorders Chapter H.5.1

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Antimicrobial resistance in the WHO African region: current status and roadmap for action

Essack S.Y., A.T. Desta, R.E. Abotsi et al. Journal of Public Health (2016) C2

The escalating antimicrobial resistance (AMR) pandemic is a global public health threat with extensive health, economic and societal implications. Resistance emerges because of selection pressure from rational and indiscriminate antimicrobial use in human health as well as in the veterinary, agricul... more