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Viewpoint: The measurement of water access and use is key for more effective food and nutrition policy

open access: yes, 2021
Water-related indicators have predominantly focused on water availability and water infrastructure; experiences with water access and use have received far less attention.
S. Young
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Completeness of open access FluNet influenza surveillance data for Pan-America in 2005–2019

open access: yesScientific Reports, 2021
For several decades, the World Health Organization has collected, maintained, and distributed invaluable country-specific disease surveillance data that allow experts to develop new analytical tools for disease tracking and forecasting.
Ryan B. Simpson   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Neoliberal discourse, actor power, and the politics of nutrition policy: A qualitative analysis of informal challenges to nutrition labelling regulations at the World Trade Organization, 2007-2019.

open access: yesSocial Science & Medicine (1967), 2021
Unhealthy diets are increasing contributors to poor health and mortality in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). Government interventions targeting the structural drivers of unhealthy diets are needed to prevent these illnesses, including nutrition ...
P. Barlow, A. Thow
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Fortified blended flour supplements displace plain cereals in feeding of young children

open access: yesMaternal and Child Nutrition, 2021
Lipid‐based nutritional supplements (LNS) and fortified blended flours (FBF) are widely used to increase the nutrient density of children's diets and improve their health, but their effectiveness could be modified by displacement of other foods.
Ilana R. Cliffer   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Framing of nutrition policy issues in the Australian news media, 2008‐2018

open access: yesAustralian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health, 2021
Objective: Media framing of nutrition policy issues has been said to play a critical role in influencing public and political support for these issues. We examined the coverage of nutrition policy issues in the Australian news media to determine the key ...
Kirstin Wise, K. Cullerton
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Less animal protein and more whole grain in US school lunches could greatly reduce environmental impacts

open access: yesCommunications Earth & Environment, 2022
40% of the global warming potential of lunches served in the United States National School Lunch Program are attributable to the 20% most environmentally damaging lunches, according to a food system life cycle analysis.
Alexandra L. Stern   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Nutrition policy in Finland [PDF]

open access: yesPublic Health Nutrition, 2010
AbstractThe present study describes the main actions in Finnish nutrition policy during the past decades. The main actor is the National Nutrition Council, which provides nutritional recommendations and action programmes, and sets up expert groups to solve nutritional problems in the population.
Pirjo, Pietinen   +3 more
openaire   +2 more sources

Coronavirus Disease 2019 Hospitalizations Attributable to Cardiometabolic Conditions in the United States: A Comparative Risk Assessment Analysis

open access: yesJournal of the American Heart Association: Cardiovascular and Cerebrovascular Disease, 2021
BACKGROUND Risk of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID‐19) hospitalization is robustly linked to cardiometabolic health. We estimated the absolute and proportional COVID‐19 hospitalizations in US adults attributable to 4 major US cardiometabolic conditions ...
Meghan O’Hearn   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Intergenerational nutrition benefits of India’s national school feeding program

open access: yesNature Communications, 2021
India’s national school feeding program is the largest of its kind in the world, but the long-term program benefits on nutrition are unknown. Here, the authors show intergenerational program benefits, in that women who received free meals in primary ...
Suman Chakrabarti   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Firms' responses to nutritional policies [PDF]

open access: yesEuropean Review of Agricultural Economics, 2012
The objective of this article is to gain a better understanding of firms strategies towards nutritional tax policies and to assess their impacts from a public health point of view. We determine how new products that are nutritionally improved can successfully emerge in an asymmetrical context in which firms do not have the same strategic incentives to ...
Duvaleix-Treguer, Sabine   +3 more
openaire   +6 more sources

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