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Validation of Food Compass with a healthy diet, cardiometabolic health, and mortality among U.S. adults, 1999–2018

Nature Communications, 2022
The Food Compass is a nutrient profiling system to characterize the healthfulness of diverse foods, beverages and meals. In a nationally representative cohort of 47,999 U.S.
Meghan O’Hearn, Joshua Erndt-Marino, Suzannah Gerber, Brianna N. Lauren, Christina Economos, John B. Wong, Jeffrey B. Blumberg, Dariush Mozaffarian   +7 more
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A narrative review of online food delivery in Australia: challenges and opportunities for public health nutrition policy

Public Health Nutrition, 2020
Objective: Online food delivery (OFD) platforms offer consumers a convenient and fast delivery service of foods and drinks sourced from foodservice partners (e.g. restaurants, quick service restaurants).
S. Bates, B. Reeve, H. Trevena
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Strengthening Governance and Institutional Capacity at the Nutrition-Food Supply Policy Nexus; Comment on “What Opportunities Exist for Making the Food Supply Nutrition Friendly? A Policy Space Analysis in Mexico” [PDF]

International Journal of Health Policy and Management, 2022
Cervantes et al have provided an insightful addition to the policy literature by identifying the contextual, political, and policy factors that create constraints and opportunities for putting nutrition at the center of the food supply chain policy ...
Sirinya Phulkerd
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Effective nutrition governance is correlated with better nutrition outcomes in Nepal

BMC Pediatrics, 2021
Background The public health burden of undernutrition remains heavy and widespread, especially in low-income countries like Nepal. While predictors of undernutrition are well documented, few studies have examined the effects of political will and quality
Grace Namirembe, Robin Shrestha, Julieta Mezzano, Lynne M. Ausman, Dale Davis, Kedar Baral, Shibani Ghosh, Gerald Shively, Patrick Webb   +8 more
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Impact of stakeholder perspectives on cost-effectiveness estimates of four specialized nutritious foods for preventing stunting and wasting in children 6–23 months in Burkina Faso

Nutrition Journal, 2020
Background Multiple specialized nutritious food options are programmed for supplementation in humanitarian and development settings. However, comparative cost-effectiveness evidence is lacking, let alone incorporation of perspectives from uncompensated ...
Ye Shen, Ilana R. Cliffer, Devika J. Suri, Breanne K. Langlois, Stephen A. Vosti, Patrick Webb, Beatrice L. Rogers   +6 more
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Schools provided healthy meals even during COVID

California Agriculture, 2023
COVID-related school closures had a big impact on millions of children nationwide, many of whom rely on schools for healthy meals. An online survey of 3,297 fourth- and fifth-grade students in 67 California schools studied the dietary habits of ...
Kaela Plank, Amanda Linares, Sridharshi C. Hewawitharana, Gail Woodward-Lopez   +3 more
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Understanding the Impact of Historical Policy Legacies on Nutrition Policy Space: Economic Policy Agendas and Current Food Policy Paradigms in Ghana

International Journal of Health Policy and Management, 2020
Background: The global food system is not delivering affordable, healthy, diverse diets, which are needed to address malnutrition in all its forms for sustainable development.
A. Thow, C. Apprey, Janelle Winters, D. Stellmach, R. Alders, L. E. Aduku, Georgina Mulcahy, R. Annan   +7 more
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Effective delivery of social and behavior change communication through a Care Group model in a supplementary feeding program

Journal of Health, Population and Nutrition, 2017
Background In 2014, an intervention aimed at increasing the oil in corn soy blend (CSB) porridge prepared by caregivers of children with moderate acute malnutrition was implemented in Southern Malawi.
Lauren Wilner, Devika J. Suri, Breanne K. Langlois, Shelley Marcus Walton, Beatrice Lorge Rogers   +4 more
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Consumption of animal source foods, especially fish, is associated with better nutritional status among women of reproductive age in rural Bangladesh

Maternal and Child Nutrition, 2022
In rural Bangladesh, intake of nutrient‐rich foods, such as animal source foods (ASFs), is generally suboptimal. Diets low in nutrients and lacking in diversity put women of reproductive age (WRA) at risk of malnutrition as well as adverse birth outcomes.
Chloe Andrews, Robin Shrestha, Shibani Ghosh, Katherine Appel, Sabi Gurung, Lynne M. Ausman, Elizabeth Marino Costello, Patrick Webb   +7 more
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Measuring Governance: Developing a Novel Metric for Assessing Whether Policy Environments are Conducive for the Development and Implementation of Nutrition Interventions in Nepal [PDF]

International Journal of Health Policy and Management, 2022
BackgroundThe Nutrition Governance Index (NGI) defines a first standardized approach to quantifying the ‘quality of governance’ in relation to national plans of action to accelerate improvements in nutrition.
Grace Namirembe, Robin Shrestha, Patrick Webb, Robert Houser, Dale Davis, Kedar Baral, Julieta Mezzano, Shibani Ghosh   +7 more
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