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Claire Palermo - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • social Health and nutrition impacts of community kitchens a systematic review
    Public Health Nutrition, 2013
    Co-Authors: Marina Iacovou, Deanna Carmel Pattieson, Helen Truby, Claire Palermo
    Abstract:

    Objective Community kitchens have been implemented by communities as a public Health strategy to prevent food insecurity through reducing social isolation, improving food and cooking skills and empowering participants. The aim of the present paper was to investigate whether community kitchens can improve the social and Nutritional Health of participants and their families. Design A systematic review of the literature was conducted including searches of seven databases with no date limitations. Setting Community kitchens internationally. Subjects Participants of community kitchens across the world. Results Ten studies (eight qualitative studies, one mixed-method study and one cross-sectional study) were selected for inclusion. Evidence synthesis suggested that community kitchens may be an effective strategy to improve participants’ cooking skills, social interactions and Nutritional intake. Community kitchens may also play a role in improving participants’ budgeting skills and address some concerns around food insecurity. Long-term solutions are required to address income-related food insecurity. Conclusions Community kitchens may improve social interactions and Nutritional intake of participants and their families. More rigorous research methods, for both qualitative and quantitative studies, are required to effectively assess the impact of community kitchens on social and Nutritional Health in order to confidently recommend them as a strategy in evidence-based public Health practice.

Per Ole Iversen - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • Examination of the roles and capacities of duty bearers responsible for protecting the human rights to adequate food, Nutritional Health and wellbeing in Ugandan children's homes.
    BMC International Health and Human Rights, 2018
    Co-Authors: Monica Olafsen, Archangel Byaruhanga Rukooko, Per Ole Iversen, Bård A. Andreassen
    Abstract:

    The majority of Ugandan children face vulnerability and malnutrition. As a State Party to international human rights treaties, Uganda has legal obligations of guaranteeing the fundamental rights and the best interest of the nation’s children. Despite being protected under international and national law, Uganda is not providing adequate child protection, including safeguarding children’s food security. Numerous privately owned and unregulated children’s homes face this problem. The overall aim of the study was to examine to what extent children’s homes’ operations are consistent with the right to adequate food, Nutritional Health and wellbeing of children. We performed a qualitative role- and capacity analysis of duty bearers with human rights duties towards children living in children’s homes. We studied three groups of duty bearers: caretakers working in private children’s homes, State actors working in government and its institutions, and non-State actors working in civil society organizations. A human rights based approach guided all aspects of the study. An analysis of the roles, performance and capacities of duty bearers was employed, with individual face-to-face structured qualitative in-depth interviews, self-administered structured questionnaires, and a structured observational study, as well as a desk review of relevant literature. The State of Uganda’s efforts to respect and realize its obligations towards children living in children’s homes is inadequate. There are numerous capacity gaps among the duty bearers, and the concepts of human rights and the best interest of the child are not well understood among the duty bearers. The efforts of the State of Uganda to realize its human rights obligations towards children in children’s homes are lacking in important areas. Hence the State does not fulfill its minimum obligations under the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights to ensure all children freedom from hunger. There is a need for capacity development at all levels in the Ugandan state and the international society to delimit capacity gaps in order to realize these human rights’ obligations.

  • Human rights dimensions of food, Health and care in children’s homes in Kampala, Uganda – a qualitative study
    BMC International Health and Human Rights, 2016
    Co-Authors: Line Erikstad Vogt, Byaruhanga Rukooko, Per Ole Iversen, Wenche Barth Eide
    Abstract:

    Background More than 14 % of Ugandan children are orphaned and many live in children’s homes. Ugandan authorities have targeted adolescent girls as a priority group for nutrition interventions as safeguarding Nutritional Health before pregnancy can reduce the chance of passing on malnutrition to the offspring and thus future generations. Ugandan authorities have obligations under international human rights law to progressively realise the rights to adequate food, Health and care for all Ugandan children. Two objectives guided this study in children’s homes: (a) To examine female adolescent residents’ experiences, attitudes and views regarding: (i) eating patterns and food, (ii) Health conditions, and (iii) care practices; and (b) to consider if the conditions in the homes comply with human rights standards and principles for the promotion of the rights to adequate food, Health and care.

  • Assessing Nutrition Intervention Programmes that addressed Malnutrition among young children in South Africa between 1994 - 2010
    African Journal of Food Agriculture Nutrition and Development, 2012
    Co-Authors: Per Ole Iversen, Debbi Marais, Lisanne Du Plessis, Marietjie Herselman
    Abstract:

    Several nutrition intervention programmes have been implemented to alleviate malnutrition among young children in South Africa. However, both nationwide studies and smaller, region-based reports show that many of these programmes have failed to improve Nutritional Health among the target groups. This is an overview of the most important nutrition intervention programmes implemented in post-apartheid South Africa. It is based on data sampled between 1994 and 2010, and collected from HighWire Press and MEDLINE data bases, local journals, official reports as well as experience gathered over the past two decades. Abstracts and nutrition issues related to chronic and communicable and non-communicable diseases were not included. The main aim of the implemented supplementation programmes after the Second World War was to correct states of undernutrition. However, these efforts did not benefit the disadvantaged groups, particularly the coloureds and the blacks. Following the downfall of the apartheid regime, various nutrition intervention programmes have been implemented with varying degrees of success. These include Health facility-based programmes, community-based programmes as well as nutrition promotion strategies. The more holistic approach of the Integrated Nutrition Programme since 1994 is commendable, but programmes have failed to restore adequate growth rates among the impoverished children. Most likely, the failures are not as a result of inappropriate policies and strategies or lack of knowledge about relevant solutions, but rather inadequate implementation and scale of the programmes. In order to ensure a satisfactory improvement in Nutritional Health in South Africa, the various programmes should undergo regular evaluations to identify pitfalls and shortcomings. The fight against undernutrition and hunger, which are rooted in poverty and social inequalities, remains a major challenge for the South African Health authorities. Urgent scale-up of the current nutrition intervention programmes as well as evaluation of their implementation are needed, coupled with strategies for education, skills development, job creation and poverty alleviation.

  • Nutritional Health of young children in South Africa over the first 16 years of democracy
    South African Journal of Child Health, 2011
    Co-Authors: Per Ole Iversen, Marianne Sandsmark Morseth, Elisabeth Adolfsen Høisæther, Debbi Marais, Lisanne Du Plessis, Marietjie Herselman
    Abstract:

    Objectives. Malnutrition among young children is a major Health problem in post-apartheid South Africa. Despite implementation of numerous Health and nutrition programmes, these extensive efforts to alleviate the situation have not been adequately reviewed. Methods. We provide an overview of various aspects of the current Nutritional Health status of young children. The reviewed data are from the time period 1994 - 2010, and were collected from literature databases and official reports, as well as our own experience with field research in various urban and rural parts of the country. Results. Both smaller province-based studies as well as three large nationwide surveys conclude that many young South African children have inadequate Nutritional status. Rates of stunting, micronutrient deficiencies and hunger and food insecurity are all unacceptably high. Coexisting HIV/AIDS and tuberculosis add to this burden. A gradual transition to a westernised diet characterised by energy-dense food has led to a worrying increase in overweight and obesity. Conclusion. A major challenge for the South African Health authorities is still the fight against childhood undernutrition and hunger, which in turn are rooted in poverty and social inequalities. The double burden of disease adds to the scale and complexity of this challenge.

Marietjie Herselman - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • Assessing Nutrition Intervention Programmes that addressed Malnutrition among young children in South Africa between 1994 - 2010
    African Journal of Food Agriculture Nutrition and Development, 2012
    Co-Authors: Per Ole Iversen, Debbi Marais, Lisanne Du Plessis, Marietjie Herselman
    Abstract:

    Several nutrition intervention programmes have been implemented to alleviate malnutrition among young children in South Africa. However, both nationwide studies and smaller, region-based reports show that many of these programmes have failed to improve Nutritional Health among the target groups. This is an overview of the most important nutrition intervention programmes implemented in post-apartheid South Africa. It is based on data sampled between 1994 and 2010, and collected from HighWire Press and MEDLINE data bases, local journals, official reports as well as experience gathered over the past two decades. Abstracts and nutrition issues related to chronic and communicable and non-communicable diseases were not included. The main aim of the implemented supplementation programmes after the Second World War was to correct states of undernutrition. However, these efforts did not benefit the disadvantaged groups, particularly the coloureds and the blacks. Following the downfall of the apartheid regime, various nutrition intervention programmes have been implemented with varying degrees of success. These include Health facility-based programmes, community-based programmes as well as nutrition promotion strategies. The more holistic approach of the Integrated Nutrition Programme since 1994 is commendable, but programmes have failed to restore adequate growth rates among the impoverished children. Most likely, the failures are not as a result of inappropriate policies and strategies or lack of knowledge about relevant solutions, but rather inadequate implementation and scale of the programmes. In order to ensure a satisfactory improvement in Nutritional Health in South Africa, the various programmes should undergo regular evaluations to identify pitfalls and shortcomings. The fight against undernutrition and hunger, which are rooted in poverty and social inequalities, remains a major challenge for the South African Health authorities. Urgent scale-up of the current nutrition intervention programmes as well as evaluation of their implementation are needed, coupled with strategies for education, skills development, job creation and poverty alleviation.

  • Nutritional Health of young children in South Africa over the first 16 years of democracy
    South African Journal of Child Health, 2011
    Co-Authors: Per Ole Iversen, Marianne Sandsmark Morseth, Elisabeth Adolfsen Høisæther, Debbi Marais, Lisanne Du Plessis, Marietjie Herselman
    Abstract:

    Objectives. Malnutrition among young children is a major Health problem in post-apartheid South Africa. Despite implementation of numerous Health and nutrition programmes, these extensive efforts to alleviate the situation have not been adequately reviewed. Methods. We provide an overview of various aspects of the current Nutritional Health status of young children. The reviewed data are from the time period 1994 - 2010, and were collected from literature databases and official reports, as well as our own experience with field research in various urban and rural parts of the country. Results. Both smaller province-based studies as well as three large nationwide surveys conclude that many young South African children have inadequate Nutritional status. Rates of stunting, micronutrient deficiencies and hunger and food insecurity are all unacceptably high. Coexisting HIV/AIDS and tuberculosis add to this burden. A gradual transition to a westernised diet characterised by energy-dense food has led to a worrying increase in overweight and obesity. Conclusion. A major challenge for the South African Health authorities is still the fight against childhood undernutrition and hunger, which in turn are rooted in poverty and social inequalities. The double burden of disease adds to the scale and complexity of this challenge.

Marc Suhrcke - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • The relationship between international trade and non-Nutritional Health outcomes: A systematic review of quantitative studies.
    Social science & medicine (1982), 2016
    Co-Authors: Darren K. Burns, Andy Jones, Marc Suhrcke
    Abstract:

    Markets throughout the world have been reducing barriers to international trade and investment in recent years. The resulting increases in levels of international trade and investment have subsequently generated research interest into the potential population Health impact. We present a systematic review of quantitative studies investigating the relationship between international trade, foreign direct investment and non-Nutritional Health outcomes. Articles were systematically collected from the SCOPUS, PubMed, EconLit and Web of Science databases. Due to the heterogeneous nature of the evidence considered, the 16 included articles were subdivided into individual level data analyses, selected country analyses and international panel analyses. Articles were then quality assessed using a tool developed as part of the project. Nine of the studies were assessed to be high quality, six as medium quality, and one as low quality. The evidence from the quantitative literature suggests that overall, there appears to be a beneficial association between international trade and population Health. There was also evidence of the importance of foreign direct investment, yet a lack of research considering the direction of causality. Taken together, quantitative research into the relationship between trade and non-Nutritional Health indicates trade to be beneficial, yet this body of research is still in its infancy. Future quantitative studies based on this foundation will provide a stronger basis on which to inform relevant national and international institutions about the Health consequences of trade policies.

Fang Ha - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.