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 ...
Edwards, Nancy; Owino Kaseje, Dan C.; Kokuangisa Kahwa, Eulalia(IDRC, Ottawa, ON, CA, 2016)
In many lower- and middle-income countries (LMICs) research capacity remains fragmented, uneven and fragile. This book addresses these gaps, capturing insights from 13 teams working on the Global Health Research Initiative, ...
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 ...
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, ...
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 ...
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, ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...