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  • The Global ETD Search service is a free service for researchers to find electronic theses and dissertations. This service is provided by the Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations.
    Our metadata is collected from universities around the world. If you manage a university/consortium/country archive and want to be added, details can be found on the NDLTD website.
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Using methods of optimization programming and meta-analysis to evaluate current Unite [sic] States nutritional recommendations /

Gao, Xiang. January 2005 (has links)
Thesis (Ph.D.)--Tufts University, 2005. / Adviser: Katherine L. Tucker. Submitted to the School of Nutrition Science and Policy. Includes bibliographical references. Access restricted to members of the Tufts University community. Also available via the World Wide Web;
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Student, Parent and Staff Perceptions of the Food Environment in a Nova Scotia Public Elementary School

Siba, Erica 19 October 2012 (has links)
This study qualitatively explored how students, parents and school staff perceived the role that the school food environment played in student eating behaviour, how the Food and Nutrition Policy for Nova Scotia Public Schools impacted the food environment. This study looked at one public elementary school from Nova Scotia through a focus group with 6 grade five students, and individual interviews with 6 parents and 11 school staff members. Under the constructivist paradigm, the methodology chosen was social constructionism using constant comparative analysis. Significant themes that emerged from the data included: schools have a role in children’s eating habits; school culture is important for supporting a healthy food environment; and the food brought from home is the unhealthiest part of the school food environment. This research contributes to knowledge on the school’s impact on student eating behaviour, effectiveness of the policy, and the development of future research.
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State policy and food insecurity in Kenya's arid and semi-arid land (ASAL) regions

Shanguhyia, Naomi. January 1900 (has links)
Thesis (M.A.)--West Virginia University, 2008. / Title from document title page. Document formatted into pages; contains vii, 118 p. : ill. (some col.), maps (some col.). Includes abstract. Includes bibliographical references (p. 111-118).
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Intersectoral collaboration theory as a framework to assist in developing a local government food and nutrition policy

Dick, Mathew Philip January 2002 (has links)
The potential role of local government in NSW to address public health nutrition issues has received encouraging reports. This treatise deals with the question of whether intersectoral collaboration theory is useful to assist development of a relationship with local government to develop food and nutrition policy. Intersectoral collaboration theory describes six conditions necessary for successful action: necessity, opportunity, capacity, relationships, planned action, and sustained outcomes. The project was a feasibility study carried out in a densely populated and multicultural local government area in Sydney�s southwest during April 1998. Eight Council employees and one elected representative were interviewed using the semi-structured questionnaire to collect a range of opinions and knowledge about Council�s involvement in a food and nutrition policy. Conceptual frameworks for the study included the Ottawa Charter and the food and nutrition system. Theoretical underpinning�s were provided by intersectoral collaboration theory and organisational change theory. Using intersectoral collaboration theory, analysis of the interviews revealed that participants were very concerned with conditions of necessity, opportunity and capacity to develop food and nutrition policy. Intersectoral collaboration theory correctly predicted that the action proposed would have to assist Council to achieve their core business, gain social and political support and be possible within the current economic environment and level of other resources available. Participants were not able to identify how a food and nutrition policy would meet these conditions and be feasible within the current capacity of the organisation, and therefore did not become fully engaged in the feasibility study. The health sector needs to develop arguments for local government involvement from their perspective. Organisational change within the heath sector is required to develop capacity for intersectoral partnerships, as an effective strategy to address public health nutrition issues.
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Intersectoral collaboration theory as a framework to assist in developing a local government food and nutrition policy

Dick, Mathew Philip January 2002 (has links)
The potential role of local government in NSW to address public health nutrition issues has received encouraging reports. This treatise deals with the question of whether intersectoral collaboration theory is useful to assist development of a relationship with local government to develop food and nutrition policy. Intersectoral collaboration theory describes six conditions necessary for successful action: necessity, opportunity, capacity, relationships, planned action, and sustained outcomes. The project was a feasibility study carried out in a densely populated and multicultural local government area in Sydney�s southwest during April 1998. Eight Council employees and one elected representative were interviewed using the semi-structured questionnaire to collect a range of opinions and knowledge about Council�s involvement in a food and nutrition policy. Conceptual frameworks for the study included the Ottawa Charter and the food and nutrition system. Theoretical underpinning�s were provided by intersectoral collaboration theory and organisational change theory. Using intersectoral collaboration theory, analysis of the interviews revealed that participants were very concerned with conditions of necessity, opportunity and capacity to develop food and nutrition policy. Intersectoral collaboration theory correctly predicted that the action proposed would have to assist Council to achieve their core business, gain social and political support and be possible within the current economic environment and level of other resources available. Participants were not able to identify how a food and nutrition policy would meet these conditions and be feasible within the current capacity of the organisation, and therefore did not become fully engaged in the feasibility study. The health sector needs to develop arguments for local government involvement from their perspective. Organisational change within the heath sector is required to develop capacity for intersectoral partnerships, as an effective strategy to address public health nutrition issues.
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Análise de programas de segurança alimentar e nutricional no município de São Paulo: o conjunto dos programas compõe uma política de segurança alimentar e nutricional promotora da saúde? / Programs analysis for Food Security and Nutrition in the city of São Paulo: the set of the programs make up a Policy of Food and Nutrition Security health-promoting?

Nayara Côrtes Rocha 29 August 2011 (has links)
A Segurança Alimentar e Nutricional (SAN) é a realização do direito de todos ao acesso regular e permanente a alimentos de qualidade, em quantidade suficiente, sem comprometer o acesso a outras necessidades essenciais, tendo como base práticas alimentares promotoras de saúde, que respeitem a diversidade cultural e que sejam social, econômica e ambientalmente sustentáveis. Nos últimos anos esta temática tem se destacado no cenário político nacional, principalmente após sua institucionalização por meio da Lei Orgânica de Segurança Alimentar e Nutricional (LOSAN 11.346/06) que cria o Sistema de Segurança Alimentar e Nutricional. Considerando os esforços para a implantação deste Sistema, nacionalmente, e a proximidade entre as proposições deste campo e o ideário da Promoção da Saúde, este estudo objetivou analisar um conjunto de programas de segurança alimentar e nutricional, desenvolvidos no município de São Paulo, sob a perspectiva da Promoção da Saúde, buscando verificar se ele compõe uma política de SAN promotora da saúde. A pesquisa, de caráter qualitativo, contou com análise de documentos referentes aos programas e entrevistas, por meio de questionários semi-estruturados, junto aos profissionais responsáveis por estas iniciativas. Verificou-se que os programas são distribuídos em todos os eixos de SAN (produção, abastecimento, consumo de alimentos e programas de suplementação alimentar e monitoramento da insegurança alimentar) com maior ênfase no eixo do consumo. Com relação à perspectiva da promoção da saúde, o conjunto dos programas não demonstrou ações intersetoriais, que atuassem sobre os determinantes da saúde e da má alimentação ou que promovessem a autonomia, participação e empoderamento dos indivíduos. A maior parte deles apresentou características próprias de políticas de um Estado neoliberal: assistencialistas, com ações limitadas ao oferecimento de alimentos ou renda; focalização, com atendimento apenas à população mais excluída da sociedade e alguns, de execução terceirizada, aumentando o distanciamento 2 entre Estado e população. Conclui-se que o conjunto dos programas analisados não compõe uma política municipal de SAN promotora da saúde. Descritores: Segurança Alimentar e Nutricional, Promoção da Saúde, Política de alimentação e nutrição, Nutrição e Saúde Pública / The Food and Nutrition Security is the realization of the right of everyone to the regular and permanent access to quality food, in enough quantity, without compromising the access to other essential necessities, based on health-promoting food practices that respect the cultural diversity and that are socially, economically and environmentally sustainable. In recent years this issue has been highlighted in the national political scene, especially after its institutionalization through the ´Organic Law on Food and Nutrition Security ´ (LOSAN 11.346/06) which creates the System of Food and Nutrition Security. Considering the efforts to implement this system, nationally, and the proximity between the propositions of this field and the idea of Health Promotion, this study aimed to analyze a set of programs for food and nutrition security, developed in the city of São Paulo, from the perspective of Health Promotion, to check if it makes up a policy of Food and Nutrition Security health-promoting. The qualitative research, included analysis of documents related to programs and interviews, through semi-structured questionnaires, with those professionals responsible for these initiatives. It was found that the programs are distributed on all axles of Food and Nutritional Security (production, supply, food consumption and nutritional supplement programs and monitoring of food insecurity) with greater emphasis on the axis of consumption. Regarding the perspective of health promotion, all the programs did not demonstrate intersectoral action, which acted on the determinants of health and bad nutrition or that promote autonomy, participation and empowerment of individuals. Most of them had characteristics of a neoliberal State policies: welfare, with actions limited to the offering of food or income; focus with service only to the population most excluded from society and some, outsourced execution, increasing the distance between the State and population. We conclude that all the programs analyzed did not make up a municipal policy of Food and Nutritional Security health-promoting
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Análise de programas de segurança alimentar e nutricional no município de São Paulo: o conjunto dos programas compõe uma política de segurança alimentar e nutricional promotora da saúde? / Programs analysis for Food Security and Nutrition in the city of São Paulo: the set of the programs make up a Policy of Food and Nutrition Security health-promoting?

Rocha, Nayara Côrtes 29 August 2011 (has links)
A Segurança Alimentar e Nutricional (SAN) é a realização do direito de todos ao acesso regular e permanente a alimentos de qualidade, em quantidade suficiente, sem comprometer o acesso a outras necessidades essenciais, tendo como base práticas alimentares promotoras de saúde, que respeitem a diversidade cultural e que sejam social, econômica e ambientalmente sustentáveis. Nos últimos anos esta temática tem se destacado no cenário político nacional, principalmente após sua institucionalização por meio da Lei Orgânica de Segurança Alimentar e Nutricional (LOSAN 11.346/06) que cria o Sistema de Segurança Alimentar e Nutricional. Considerando os esforços para a implantação deste Sistema, nacionalmente, e a proximidade entre as proposições deste campo e o ideário da Promoção da Saúde, este estudo objetivou analisar um conjunto de programas de segurança alimentar e nutricional, desenvolvidos no município de São Paulo, sob a perspectiva da Promoção da Saúde, buscando verificar se ele compõe uma política de SAN promotora da saúde. A pesquisa, de caráter qualitativo, contou com análise de documentos referentes aos programas e entrevistas, por meio de questionários semi-estruturados, junto aos profissionais responsáveis por estas iniciativas. Verificou-se que os programas são distribuídos em todos os eixos de SAN (produção, abastecimento, consumo de alimentos e programas de suplementação alimentar e monitoramento da insegurança alimentar) com maior ênfase no eixo do consumo. Com relação à perspectiva da promoção da saúde, o conjunto dos programas não demonstrou ações intersetoriais, que atuassem sobre os determinantes da saúde e da má alimentação ou que promovessem a autonomia, participação e empoderamento dos indivíduos. A maior parte deles apresentou características próprias de políticas de um Estado neoliberal: assistencialistas, com ações limitadas ao oferecimento de alimentos ou renda; focalização, com atendimento apenas à população mais excluída da sociedade e alguns, de execução terceirizada, aumentando o distanciamento 2 entre Estado e população. Conclui-se que o conjunto dos programas analisados não compõe uma política municipal de SAN promotora da saúde. Descritores: Segurança Alimentar e Nutricional, Promoção da Saúde, Política de alimentação e nutrição, Nutrição e Saúde Pública / The Food and Nutrition Security is the realization of the right of everyone to the regular and permanent access to quality food, in enough quantity, without compromising the access to other essential necessities, based on health-promoting food practices that respect the cultural diversity and that are socially, economically and environmentally sustainable. In recent years this issue has been highlighted in the national political scene, especially after its institutionalization through the ´Organic Law on Food and Nutrition Security ´ (LOSAN 11.346/06) which creates the System of Food and Nutrition Security. Considering the efforts to implement this system, nationally, and the proximity between the propositions of this field and the idea of Health Promotion, this study aimed to analyze a set of programs for food and nutrition security, developed in the city of São Paulo, from the perspective of Health Promotion, to check if it makes up a policy of Food and Nutrition Security health-promoting. The qualitative research, included analysis of documents related to programs and interviews, through semi-structured questionnaires, with those professionals responsible for these initiatives. It was found that the programs are distributed on all axles of Food and Nutritional Security (production, supply, food consumption and nutritional supplement programs and monitoring of food insecurity) with greater emphasis on the axis of consumption. Regarding the perspective of health promotion, all the programs did not demonstrate intersectoral action, which acted on the determinants of health and bad nutrition or that promote autonomy, participation and empowerment of individuals. Most of them had characteristics of a neoliberal State policies: welfare, with actions limited to the offering of food or income; focus with service only to the population most excluded from society and some, outsourced execution, increasing the distance between the State and population. We conclude that all the programs analyzed did not make up a municipal policy of Food and Nutritional Security health-promoting
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Análise do processo de formulação de uma proposta de regulamentação de propagandas de alimentos: um estudo de caso / Analysis of the formulation for a regulation food advertisements process: a case study

Bruna Pitasi Arguelhes 11 April 2014 (has links)
O consumo de alimentos processados tem crescido mundialmente e esse aumento tem sido relacionado em parte, pelas estratégias de marketing utilizadas pelas indústrias alimentícias que tem como objetivo aumentar as vendas e expandir o mercado consumidor. Segundo documento Recomendações da Consulta de Especialistas da Organização Pan-Americana da Saúde sobre a Promoção e a Publicidade de Alimentos e Bebidas Não Alcoólicas para Crianças nas Américas, a publicidade televisiva é a forma mais utilizada de marketing de alimentos para crianças e está associada a maior preferência e aumentos nos pedidos de compra de alimentos e bebidas com elevado teor de gordura, açúcar e sal. No âmbito da discussão mais recente sobre a possível influência da propaganda de alimentos na epidemia mundial de obesidade e doenças crônicas, o governo brasileiro, por meio da Agência Nacional de Vigilância Sanitária (ANVISA), formulou uma proposta de Regulamento Técnico que normatiza os termos das atividades publicitárias e que se concretizou na Resolução da Diretoria Colegiada n 24 de 2010 (RDC24/2010). Logo após sua publicação, grupos de interesse empresarial entraram na justiça e obtiveram diversas liminares que suspenderam a aplicação da RDC 24/2010 com base em parecer contrário da Advocacia Geral da União (AGU). O debate sobre ações regulatórias no campo da alimentação e nutrição como estratégia de controle e prevenção da obesidade envolve diversos atores sociais e opiniões bastante distintas e antagônicas, principalmente quando se trata dos argumentos do grupo de indivíduos que acredita na regulamentação da publicidade como uma forma de promover a saúde versus os argumentos contrários dos setores econômicos ligados ao tema a ser regulado. Neste sentido, este trabalho teve a intenção de descrever como e por que, neste processo, algumas práticas se estabeleceram no cotidiano das instituições e identificar os embates, argumentos e conflitos de interesses que apareceram nas discussões a respeito da formulação da resolução. Para isso, foi feita, primeiramente, análise documental de todo o processo de formulação, através de arquivos institucionais, documentos, pareceres, relatórios, entre outros. Posteriormente, foram identificados e caracterizados os sujeitos que participaram do processo e em seguida, realizadas entrevistas semi-estruturadas com atores chaves. Foram encontradas duas teses centrais no debate em torno da formulação da resolução: a primeira, se o Estado deve estabelecer uma regulamentação sobre publicidade de alimentos e a segunda diz respeito à competência legal da ANVISA em exercer o papel regulador sobre a propaganda de alimentos. As disputas em torno destas duas teses e os argumentos que se apresentaram para defendê-las são evidentemente incomensuráveis entre si, não havendo esperança de acordo entre as partes. O caso descrito elegeu a ANVISA como o território da disputa e a aparente maioria no jogo democrático desta arena mostrou-se ineficaz diante da captura pelo questionamento da pertinência desta Agência para função de regular a publicidade de alimentos. / The consumption of processed foods has grown globally and this increase has been related in part to the marketing strategies used by the food industry that aims to increase sales and expand the consumer market. As document Recommendations from a Pan American Health Organization Expert Consultation on the Marketing of Food and Non-Alcoholic Beverages to Children in the Americas, television advertising is the most widely used form of food marketing to children and is associated with greater preference and increases in orders for food and drinks high in fat , sugar and salt (PAHO, 2012). Within the most recent discussion on the possible influence of food advertising in the global epidemic of obesity and chronic diseases, the Brazilian government, through the National Health Surveillance Agency (ANVISA) , formulated a proposal for Technical Regulation that regulates the terms of advertising activities and which has resulted in Board Resolution No. 24 of 2010 (RDC24/2010). Soon after its publication, business interest groups filed a lawsuit and obtained several injunctions suspended application of RDC 24/2010 based on negative opinion of the Attorney General (AGU). The debate on regulatory actions in food and nutrition area as a strategy of control and obesity prevention involves several quite distinct and antagonistic social actors and opinions, especially when it comes to the arguments of the group who believe in the regulation of advertising as a way to promote health versus the counter arguments of economic sectors related to the subject to be regulated. Thus, this study was intended to describe how and why, in this process, some settled in the daily practices of institutions and identify conflicts, arguments and conflicts of interest that arose during the discussion about the wording of the resolution. To this, was first made documentary analysis of the entire formulation process through institutional archives, documents, opinions, reports, among others. Subsequently, we identified and characterized the subjects who participated in the process and then conducted semi -structured interviews with key actors. Two central theses were found in the debate over the wording of the resolution: the first, whether the state should establish rules on food advertising and the second concerns the legal competence of ANVISA in exercising regulatory role on the advertising of food. Disputes around these two theses and arguments presented to defend them are clearly incommensurate with each other, with no hope of agreement between the parties. The case described ANVISA elected as the territory of the dispute and the apparent majority in this democratic game arena was ineffective before the capture by questioning the relevance of this Agency to regulating food advertising.
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Análise do processo de formulação de uma proposta de regulamentação de propagandas de alimentos: um estudo de caso / Analysis of the formulation for a regulation food advertisements process: a case study

Bruna Pitasi Arguelhes 11 April 2014 (has links)
O consumo de alimentos processados tem crescido mundialmente e esse aumento tem sido relacionado em parte, pelas estratégias de marketing utilizadas pelas indústrias alimentícias que tem como objetivo aumentar as vendas e expandir o mercado consumidor. Segundo documento Recomendações da Consulta de Especialistas da Organização Pan-Americana da Saúde sobre a Promoção e a Publicidade de Alimentos e Bebidas Não Alcoólicas para Crianças nas Américas, a publicidade televisiva é a forma mais utilizada de marketing de alimentos para crianças e está associada a maior preferência e aumentos nos pedidos de compra de alimentos e bebidas com elevado teor de gordura, açúcar e sal. No âmbito da discussão mais recente sobre a possível influência da propaganda de alimentos na epidemia mundial de obesidade e doenças crônicas, o governo brasileiro, por meio da Agência Nacional de Vigilância Sanitária (ANVISA), formulou uma proposta de Regulamento Técnico que normatiza os termos das atividades publicitárias e que se concretizou na Resolução da Diretoria Colegiada n 24 de 2010 (RDC24/2010). Logo após sua publicação, grupos de interesse empresarial entraram na justiça e obtiveram diversas liminares que suspenderam a aplicação da RDC 24/2010 com base em parecer contrário da Advocacia Geral da União (AGU). O debate sobre ações regulatórias no campo da alimentação e nutrição como estratégia de controle e prevenção da obesidade envolve diversos atores sociais e opiniões bastante distintas e antagônicas, principalmente quando se trata dos argumentos do grupo de indivíduos que acredita na regulamentação da publicidade como uma forma de promover a saúde versus os argumentos contrários dos setores econômicos ligados ao tema a ser regulado. Neste sentido, este trabalho teve a intenção de descrever como e por que, neste processo, algumas práticas se estabeleceram no cotidiano das instituições e identificar os embates, argumentos e conflitos de interesses que apareceram nas discussões a respeito da formulação da resolução. Para isso, foi feita, primeiramente, análise documental de todo o processo de formulação, através de arquivos institucionais, documentos, pareceres, relatórios, entre outros. Posteriormente, foram identificados e caracterizados os sujeitos que participaram do processo e em seguida, realizadas entrevistas semi-estruturadas com atores chaves. Foram encontradas duas teses centrais no debate em torno da formulação da resolução: a primeira, se o Estado deve estabelecer uma regulamentação sobre publicidade de alimentos e a segunda diz respeito à competência legal da ANVISA em exercer o papel regulador sobre a propaganda de alimentos. As disputas em torno destas duas teses e os argumentos que se apresentaram para defendê-las são evidentemente incomensuráveis entre si, não havendo esperança de acordo entre as partes. O caso descrito elegeu a ANVISA como o território da disputa e a aparente maioria no jogo democrático desta arena mostrou-se ineficaz diante da captura pelo questionamento da pertinência desta Agência para função de regular a publicidade de alimentos. / The consumption of processed foods has grown globally and this increase has been related in part to the marketing strategies used by the food industry that aims to increase sales and expand the consumer market. As document Recommendations from a Pan American Health Organization Expert Consultation on the Marketing of Food and Non-Alcoholic Beverages to Children in the Americas, television advertising is the most widely used form of food marketing to children and is associated with greater preference and increases in orders for food and drinks high in fat , sugar and salt (PAHO, 2012). Within the most recent discussion on the possible influence of food advertising in the global epidemic of obesity and chronic diseases, the Brazilian government, through the National Health Surveillance Agency (ANVISA) , formulated a proposal for Technical Regulation that regulates the terms of advertising activities and which has resulted in Board Resolution No. 24 of 2010 (RDC24/2010). Soon after its publication, business interest groups filed a lawsuit and obtained several injunctions suspended application of RDC 24/2010 based on negative opinion of the Attorney General (AGU). The debate on regulatory actions in food and nutrition area as a strategy of control and obesity prevention involves several quite distinct and antagonistic social actors and opinions, especially when it comes to the arguments of the group who believe in the regulation of advertising as a way to promote health versus the counter arguments of economic sectors related to the subject to be regulated. Thus, this study was intended to describe how and why, in this process, some settled in the daily practices of institutions and identify conflicts, arguments and conflicts of interest that arose during the discussion about the wording of the resolution. To this, was first made documentary analysis of the entire formulation process through institutional archives, documents, opinions, reports, among others. Subsequently, we identified and characterized the subjects who participated in the process and then conducted semi -structured interviews with key actors. Two central theses were found in the debate over the wording of the resolution: the first, whether the state should establish rules on food advertising and the second concerns the legal competence of ANVISA in exercising regulatory role on the advertising of food. Disputes around these two theses and arguments presented to defend them are clearly incommensurate with each other, with no hope of agreement between the parties. The case described ANVISA elected as the territory of the dispute and the apparent majority in this democratic game arena was ineffective before the capture by questioning the relevance of this Agency to regulating food advertising.

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