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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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Towards Preventing and Managing Conflict of Interest in Nutrition Policy? An Analysis of Submissions to a Consultation on a Draft WHO Tool

International Journal of Health Policy and Management, 2020
Background: With multi-stakeholder approaches central to efforts to address global health challenges, debates around conflict of interest (COI) are increasingly prominent.
Rob Ralston, Sarah E Hil, Fabio da Silva Gomes, Jeff Collin   +3 more
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Nutrition Policy and Individual Struggle to Eat Healthily: The Question of Public Support

Nutrients, 2020
The evidence for the effectiveness of nutrition policy interventions is growing. For the implementation of such interventions, social acceptability is crucial.
K. Jürkenbeck, A. Zühlsdorf, A. Spiller   +2 more
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Relationship between muscle strength and dyslipidemia, serum 25(OH)D, and weight status among diverse schoolchildren: a cross-sectional analysis

BMC Pediatrics, 2018
Background The relationship between muscle strength and cardiometabolic risk factors in youth, and the potential influence of vitamin D status on this relationship, is not well understood.
Caitlin E. Blakeley, Maria I. Van Rompay, Nicole S. Schultz, Jennifer M. Sacheck   +3 more
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Towards concerted government efforts? Assessing nutrition policy integration in Uganda

Food Security, 2020
To tackle malnutrition more effectively, Sub-Saharan African governments have developed overarching, integrative policy strategies over the past decade.
B. Namugumya, Jeroen J. L. Candel, E. Talsma, C. Termeer   +3 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Nutrition Policies in Mediterranean Europe

Nutrition Reviews, 2009
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Serra-Majem, L., Ferro-Luzzi, A., Bellizzi, M., Salleras, L.   +3 more
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A mechanisms-based explanation of nutrition policy (dis)integration processes in Uganda

, 2020
Many African governments have recently invested in strengthened nutrition policy integration to address malnutrition; as a step towards realising the targets of the Sustainable Development Goal 2.
B. Namugumya, Jeroen J. L. Candel, E. Talsma, C. Termeer   +3 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Education and micronutrient deficiencies: an ecological study exploring interactions between women’s schooling and children’s micronutrient status

BMC Public Health, 2018
Background Formal education can be a nutrition-sensitive intervention that supports the scale-up and impact of nutrition-specific actions. Maternal education has long been linked to child survival, growth, and development while adult earnings and ...
Kassandra L. Harding, Victor M. Aguayo, William A. Masters, Patrick Webb   +3 more
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Spatiotemporal and Demographic Trends and Disparities in Cardiovascular Disease Among Older Adults in the United States Based on 181 Million Hospitalization Records

Journal of the American Heart Association: Cardiovascular and Cerebrovascular Disease, 2019
Background The US population is aging, with concurrent increases in cardiovascular disease (CVD) burdens; however, spatiotemporal and demographic trends in CVD incidence in the US elderly have not been investigated in detail.
Gitanjali M. Singh, Ninon Becquart, Melissa Cruz, Andrea Acevedo, Dariush Mozaffarian, Elena N. Naumova   +5 more
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Remuneration systems of community health workers in India and promoted maternal health outcomes: a cross-sectional study

BMC Health Services Research, 2020
Background This study assessed the association of remuneration systems of paid-for-performance Accredited Social Health Activists (ASHAs) and salaried Anganwadi workers (AWWs) on seven maternal health outcomes in four states in India: Andhra Pradesh (AP),
Hannah J. Koehn, Shenglin Zheng, Robert F. Houser, Corey O’Hara, Beatrice Lorge Rogers   +4 more
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