• Contenido de azúcares en bebidas no alcohólicas comercializadas en Argentina y Costa Rica 

  Tiscornia, María Victoria; Heredia-Blonval, Katrina; Allemandi, Lorena; Blanco-Metzler, Adriana; Ponce, Miguel (Dirección de Investigación para la Salud, 2017-03)

  INTRODUCCIÓN: El consumo de bebidas azucaradas está vinculado con un mayor riesgo de obesidad. OBJETIVOS: Comparar el contenido de azúcares declarado en el etiquetado nutricional de diferentes bebidas no alcohólicas ...
• Analysis of a voluntary initiative to reduce sodium in processed and ultra-processed food products in Argentina : the views of public and private sector representatives 

  Castronuovo, Luciana; Allemandi, Lorena; Tiscornia, Victoria; Champagne, Beatriz; Campbell, Norm; Schoj, Veronica (Escola Nacional de Saúde Pública Sergio Arouca, Fundação Oswaldo Cruz, 2017)

  This study is part of a comprehensive quantitative and qualitative research strategy to monitor sodium reduction policies in Argentina. The qualitative study design aims to contribute to the body of research in the public ...
• 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 Angeles 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 ...
• 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)
• 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, ...
• 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 ...
• 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 (BioMed Central, 2016)

  This study reports on the adaptation and test-retest reliability of the Neighborhood Environment Walkability Scale in seven sub-Saharan African countries (NEWS-Africa). The measure will be useful for surveillance of built ...
• 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 ...
• Evaluating consumer preferences for healthy eating from community kitchens in low-income urban areas : a discrete choice experiment of comedores populares in Peru 

  Buttorff, Christine; Trujillo, Antonio J.; Diez-Canseco, Francisco; Bernabe-Ortiz, Antonio; Miranda, J. Jaime (Elsevier, 2015)

  Many low-income individuals from around the world rely on local food vendors for daily sustenance. These small vendors quickly provide convenient, low-priced, tasty foods, however, they may be low in nutritional value. ...
• Differential responsiveness to cigarette price by education and income among adult urban Chinese smokers : findings from the ITC China Survey 

  Jidong Huang; Rong Zheng; Chaloupka, Frank J.; Fong, Geoffrey T.; Yuan Jiang (BMJ, 2015)

  Background Few studies have examined the impact of tobacco tax and price policies in China. In addition, very little is known about the differential responses to tax and price increases based on socioeconomic status ...
• Prevalence and predictors of cigarette smoking among adolescents of Ethiopia : school based cross sectional survey 

  Dereje, Nebiyu; Abazinab, Sabit; Girma, Abiot (OMICS, 2014)

  A disproportionate share of the global tobacco burden falls on developing countries, where 84% of the 1.3 billion people current smokers reside. This study aims to assess the prevalence and associated factors of cigarette ...
• Active transport research in low-and middle-Income countries : a report summarizing key takeaways and discussions from a two-day workshop in June, 2013 in Washington, D.C., USA; workshop report 

  World Resources Institute. EMBARQ (EMBARQ, World Resources Institute, 2013)

  This report provides a description of the workshop, specific goals, methodology, and a synopsis of key discussion points and takeaways. The workshop sought to view physical activity from the lens of how evidence-based ...
• Impact of prices and taxes on the use of tobacco products in Latin America and the Caribbean 

  Guindon, G. Emmanuel; Paraje, Guillermo R.; Chaloupka, Frank J. (American Public Health Association, 2015-03)

  We examined the impact of tobacco prices or taxes on tobacco use in Latin America and Caribbean countries. We searched MEDLINE, EconLit, LILACS, unpublished literature, 6 specialty journals, and reviewed references. We ...
• Direct and indirect costs of smoking in Vietnam 

  Pham Thi Hoang Anh; Le Thi Thu; Ross, Hana; Nguyen Quynh Anh; Bui Ngoc Linh; Nguyen Thac Minh (BMJ Publishing Group, 2014-12)

  This study was designed to overcome limitations of two previous investigations by calculating both direct and indirect health costs of five smoking-related diseases that are responsible for almost 75% of all smoking-related ...

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