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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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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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Factsheet 8: Targeted Intervention among Key Population in Nepal, as of July 2016

Government of Nepal Ministry of Health, National Centre for AIDS and STD Control (2016) C1

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Participant’s manual: Integrated Disease Surveillance and Response Liberia

Ministry of Health and Social Welfare, Liberia; World Health Organization (WHO) (2016) C_WHO

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Impact of WASH Interventions during Disease Outbreaks in Humanitarian Emergencies: A systematic review protocol
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Tufts University, Oxfam (2016) CC

In this review, the editors will investigate the impact of eight WASH interventions in preventing (reducing the risk of) and controlling outbreaks in LMIC, with particular focus on three diseases of current concern to the response community – cholera, Ebola, and Hepatitis E. Additionally, we will ... more

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Mental Health Lessons Plan: The Stigma of Mental Health

Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration SAMHASA (2016) C2

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Ghana MDG Accleration Framework (MAF). 2016/17 Strategy and Operational Plan

Ministry of Health, Ghana (2016) C1

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Policy and guidelines for hospital accident and emergency services in Ghana

Ministry of Health, Ghana (2016) C1

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The FAO Action Plan on Antimicrobial Resistance 2016-2020

FOOD AND AGRICULTURE ORGANIZATION OF THE UNITED NATIONS FAO (2016) C2

Supporting the food and agriculture sectors in implementing the Global Action Plan on Antimicrobial Resistance to minimize the impact of antimicrobial resistance

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Management of arterial hypertension in Cotonou city, Benin: general practitioners’ knowledge, attitudes and practice

Dèdonougbo Houenassi, M.; L.Houétondji Codjo, D. Dokoui, S, et al. (2016) CC

CARDIOVASCULAR AFRICA JOURNAL OF AFRICA Volume 27, No 4, July/August 2016

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Drivers, Dynamics and Epidemiology of Antimicrobial Resistance in Animal Production

B.A. Wall, A. Mateus, L. Marshall et al. Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO (2016) C2

Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) both in human and veterinary medicine has reached alarming levels in most parts of the world and has now been recognized as a significant emerging threat to global public health and food security. In June 2015, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nati... more

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Giving Vitamin A and Deworming to Children Under Age Five: Course for Service Providers Facilitator’sGuide

Vitamin Angels Vitamin Angels (2016) C1

This Course for Service Providers on how to give Vitamin A Supplementation and Deworming (VAS+D) uses both a Learner’sGuide and a Facilitator’s Guide. The Learner’s Guide is designed for participants in the course who are healthcare workers or trainers learning to deliver vitamin A and Albenda... more

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Curriculum development in fragile states to encourage peace and reduction of conflict

Ruth Naylor Governance and Social Development Resource Centre HEART (2015) C1

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The impact of disasters on agriculture and food security

Food and Agriculture Organization (2015) C1

Surge in climate change-related disasters poses growing threat to food security

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Antimicrobioal resistance in G7 countries and beyond

Cecchini, M.; J. Langer and J. Slawomirski OECD (2015) C1

Economic Issues, Policies and Option for Action

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WHO recommendations HIV testing by lay providers

World Health Organization (WHO) World Health Organization (WHO) (2015) C_WHO

HIV testing Policy Brief July 2015

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Assessment of the implementation of the national policy on orphans and vulnerable children in Benin City, Edo State, Nigeria

Y. W. Olagbuji; O. H. Okojie Academic Journals; International Journal of Sociology and Anthropology (2015) C2

Full Length Research Paper Received 23 March, 2015; Accepted 5 August, 2015 Vol.7(9), pp. 204-213, September, 2015 DOI: 10.5897/IJSA2015.0604 Article Number: F0D0DDC54848 ISSN 2006- 988x