• Implementación de un programa poblacional para reducir el consumo de sal/sodio en Costa Rica : informe técnico final (1 de abril, 2012 – 30 de Septiembre, 2016) 

  Blanco Metzler, Adriana; Heredia Blonval, Katrina; de los Ángeles Montero Campos, María; Benavides, Karla (Instituto Costarricense de Investigación y Enseñanza en Nutrición y Salud (INCIENSA), Tres Ríos, CR, 2016-09)

  Las iniciativas dirigidas a promover la reducción del consumo de sal/sodio en la población, tienen el potencial de contribuir a la prevención de enfermedades y mejorar el control de la salud cardiovascular y de los ...
• Industria del alcohol en América Latina : una mirada desde la salud pública a los programas de responsabilidad social empresarial 

  Grupo de Sustancias Psicoactivas y Lesiones por Causa Externa (IPSIBAT-UNMdP-CONICET) (2016)
• Industria del alcohol en Argentina : una mirada desde la salud pública a los programas de responsabilidad social empresarial 

  Grupo de Sustancias Psicoactivas y Lesiones por Causa Externa (IPSIBAT-UNMdP-CONICET) (2016)
• Evaluación de las acciones de responsabilidad social empresarial de la industria del alcohol : estudio regional multidisciplinario 

  Centro de Investigación para la Epidemia del Tabaquismo (CIET); Uruguay. Junta Nacional de Drogas (2014)
• Caso : industria del alcohol en Uruguay; análisis de la efectividad y fortaleza de la evidencia en las actividades de la industria para reducir el consumo nocivo de alcohol 

  Observatorio Uruguayo de Drogas (OUD); Centro de Investigación para la Epidemia del Tabaquismo (CIET) (2016)
• Publicidad de alimentos dirigida a niños y niñas en la Argentina : documento informativo 

  Fundación InterAmericana del Corazón (FIC Argentina) (Fundación InterAmericana del Corazón (FIC Argentina), Buenos Aires, Argentina, 2016-04)

  La información presentada en este informe es parte de un estudio de investigación cualicuantitativo realizado por el equipo del área de Políticas de Alimentación Saludable de la Fundación Interamericana del Corazón Argentina ...
• Acciones de prensa temas : obesidad infantil y publicidad de alimentos; del 01/09/2015 al 22/04/2016 

  Fundación InterAmericana del Corazón (FIC Argentina) (Fundación InterAmericana del Corazón (FIC Argentina), Buenos Aires, Argentina, 2016)
• Publicidad de alimentos y bebidas dirigida a niños y niñas en la televisión Argentina : un estudio cuali cuantitativo 

  Fundación InterAmericana del Corazón (FIC Argentina) (Fundación InterAmericana del Corazón (FIC Argentina), Buenos Aires, Argentina, )
• Informe de investigación : publicidad de alimentos dirigida a niños y niñas en la TV Argentina; documento informativo 

  Fundación InterAmericana del Corazón (FIC Argentina) (Fundación InterAmericana del Corazón (FIC Argentina), Buenos Aires, Argentina, 2015-08)

  FIC Argentina realizó un estudio de investigación para analizar y cuantificar las publicidades de alimentos que se emiten durante los cortes comerciales de los programas dirigidos a niños y niñas en televisión. Además, ...
• Food advertising to children in Argentinean television : a quantitative and qualitative analysis; final technical report 

  Allemandi, Lorena; Castronuovo, Luciana; Tiscornia, Victoria; Ponce, Miguel; Gutkowski, Patricia; Schoj, Veronica (Fundación InterAmericana del Corazón (FIC Argentina), Buenos Aires, Argentina, 2016-04)

  Objectives 1. To analyze and describe the current regulatory framework, the main stakeholders involved in the regulation of food advertising and to detect potential obstacles, challenges and enablers in the promotion of ...
• Modelling the potential impact of a sugar-sweetened beverage tax on stroke mortality, costs and health-adjusted life years in South Africa 

  Manyema, Mercy; Veerman, Lennert J.; Tugendhaft, Aviva; Labadarios, Demetre; Hofman, Karen J. (BioMed Central, 2016)

  This study estimates the potential impact of a tax on sugar-sweetened beverages (SSBs) in South Africa, where stroke is the third leading cause of death after HIV/AIDS and ischemic heart disease. Excess sugar consumption, ...
• Cost of inaction on sugar-sweetened beverage consumption : implications for obesity in South Africa 

  Tugendhaft, Aviva; Manyema, Mercy; Veerman, Lennert J.; Chola, Lumbwe; Labadarios, Demetre; Hofman, Karen J. (Cambridge University Press, 2015-10)

  Objective To estimate the effect of increased sugar-sweetened beverage (SSB) consumption on future adult obesity prevalence in South Africa in the absence of preventive measures. Design A model was constructed to simulate ...
• Sugar and health in South Africa : potential challenges to leveraging policy change 

  Myers, Alex; Fig, David; Tugendhaft, Aviva; Mandle, Jessie; Myers, Jonathan; Hofman, Karen (Routledge, 2015)

  This paper focuses on a sugar sweetened beverage (SSB) tax. The purpose of the paper is to highlight the challenges that government might anticipate. Affected industry actors have been part of the South African economy for ...
• Obesogenic environments : access to and advertising of sugar-sweetened beverages in Soweto, South Africa, 2013 

  Unknown author (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, 2015)

  Marketing of products that contribute to obesity is common in urban Soweto. This is the first study in South Africa to document the location of billboard advertisements and vendors in relation to schools. The study findings ...
• Nutrition labelling : a review of research on consumer and industry response in the global South 

  Mandle, Jessie; Tugendhaft, Aviva; Michalow, Julia; Hofman, Karen (Co-Action Publishing, 2015-01)

  In response to increasing nutrition-related noncommunicable disease (NCDs) rates, many governments are implementing multi-faceted policy interventions including adoption of nutrition labelling on pre-packaged foods and ...
• Determinants of obesity and associated population attributability, South Africa : empirical evidence from a national panel survey, 2008-2012 

  Sartorius, Benn; Veerman, Lennert J.; Manyema, Mercy; Chola, Lumbwe; Hofman, Karen (PLOS, 2015-06)

  Obesity is a major risk factor for emerging non-communicable diseases (NCDs) in middle income countries including South Africa (SA). Understanding the multiple and complex determinants of obesity and their population-attributable ...
• Empowering healthy food and beverage choices in the workplace 

  Tugendhaft, A.; Hofman, K.J. (Technique (Pty), Durban, ZA, 2014)

  South Africa is now considered the most obese of sub-Saharan Africa. Over half of the country’s adults are overweight or obese (42% of women and 13% of men). Since employees spend approximately 60% of their waking hours ...
• Decreasing the burden of type 2 diabetes in South Africa : The Impact of Taxing Sugar-Sweetened Beverages 

  Manyema, Mercy; Veerman, J. Lennert; Chola, Lumbwe; Tugendhaft, Aviva; Labadarios, Demetre; Hofman, Karen (PLOS, 2015-11)

  Type 2 diabetes poses an increasing public health burden in South Africa (SA) with obesity as the main driver of the epidemic. Consumption of sugar-sweetened beverages (SSBs) is linked to weight gain, and reducing SSB ...
• NEWS for Africa : adaptation and reliability of a built environment questionnaire for physical activity in seven African countries 

  Oyeyemi, Adewale L.; Kasoma, Sandra S.; Onywera, Vincent O.; Assah, Felix; Adedoyin, Rufus A. (BioMed Central, 2016)

  BACKGROUND: Built environment and policy interventions are effective strategies for controlling the growing worldwide deaths from physical inactivity-related non-communicable diseases. To improve built environment ...
• Report on health costs associated with active tobacco use 

  Chhordaphea, Chhea; Sovann, Sin; Rany, Ray; Boremey, Sann (National Centre for Health Promotion, Phnom Penh, KH, 2015)

  Findings support program intervention to combat the tobacco epidemic in Cambodia; the research also provides a baseline for documenting changes in cost of smoking and for monitoring implementation of provisions of tobacco ...

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